Nice. Is this the rumored 054B?
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Nice. Is this the rumored 054B?
Seems so. The post says something like "the first batch will come from Shanghai".
Indeed but remains boring for PLAN and mainly a new SSN Class in fact variant in service since only 3 years and if CO overstepped his mission by coming too close of the Shenkakus it is a grave fault ! i don't think acording events. But all is very difficult to know with submarines matters.
Only a thing is certain if Japan Navy have US Navy have yet all datas... via Yokosuka...
But never see on a Sub a flag also large LOL
Don't do mind but you trust a drawing as it ? i need more proofs
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If it’s from the guy who has been giving us precise build schedules and order counts for new ships for years now...then yes?
Hendrik_2000
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Anything wrong with that statement? and Anyone who is taking offence to that statement must have some serious problem.You put the word in my mouth about indignation and I say yes I do have problem with people disparaging China's achievement
This article below confirm that the sub ignore request to surface. It is more and more look like showing the flag
Chinese submarine near Senkakus ignored warnings, Japan says
Presence of powerful long-range nuclear vessel riles Japan
The Chinese submarine surfaced and raised the national flag once it reached the East China Sea. (Photo courtesy of Japanese Ministry of Defense)
TOKYO -- A Chinese nuclear submarine spotted near the Senkaku Islands on Thursday failed to acknowledge repeated warnings from Japan, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Monday.
The vessel sailed through the contiguous zone adjoining Japanese territorial waters around the uninhabited islands, which China claims as the Diaoyu. It is not a violation of international law for vessels to enter this type of zone, a band of water stretching up to 12 nautical miles from the outer edge of territorial waters. But incursions can be read as a threat to territorial waters.
The Maritime Self-Defense Force "issued repeated warnings" informing the sub that it was in the contiguous zone, Onodera said. "It is unacceptable" that the vessel "ignored our warnings and continued its passage," he said.
The presence of a Shang-class nuclear submarine, able to travel long distances and difficult to detect when underwater, was particularly alarming to Japan. These vessels can be armed with long-range cruise missiles capable of reaching faraway targets on land. Unless Japan can quickly detect when such a missile is fired, intercepting it in time may not be possible.
The sail-through seems to have been a show of power by China's military, according to a Japanese government source, given that the vessel surfaced and raised a Chinese flag once exiting the contiguous zone into the East China Sea. "The Maritime Self-Defense Force is constantly monitoring the area around the Senkakus," and the submarine "likely sailed the route aware of the likelihood that it would be detected," the source said.
Others have suggested that the sub may have been conducting drills for a landing on the Senkakus or collecting information on the area's topography.
Onodera would not speculate on the motivation for China's move, saying, "There is no need to guess."
(Nikkei)
Treat the picture as a rumor. All these rumors are sometimes reflection of reality, sometimes fantasy. So we can't know for sure until the ship actually launches.
Jura The idiot
General
seeing the source here:
#19 AndrewS, Aug 24, 2017
it's the same outlet which quadrupled Bhutan's GDP
#19 AndrewS, Aug 24, 2017
The specific source in question doesn’t do “fantasies”.
