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More images from the "Sea Guardian 3" Sino-Pakistan naval exercise, which concluded yesterday.

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Maikeru

Maikeru

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Mostly stuff we know, plus repeats some dodgy USNI analysis, but the stuff about expected production rates is new:

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Carlson, the former U.S. Navy officer, predicts that once China has settled on new designs it could triple the current U.S. annual production rate. In its annual assessment of the Chinese military published this month, the Pentagon forecast China would have a total fleet of 80 attack and ballistic-missile submarines by 2035, up from 60 at the end of last year.
 
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Maikeru said:
Mostly stuff we know, plus repeats some dodgy USNI analysis, but the stuff about expected production rates is new:

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Carlson, the former U.S. Navy officer, predicts that once China has settled on new designs it could triple the current U.S. annual production rate. In its annual assessment of the Chinese military published this month, the Pentagon forecast China would have a total fleet of 80 attack and ballistic-missile submarines by 2035, up from 60 at the end of last year.
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The article claims that China only has 6x SSNs in service right now, which is wrong. Even by excluding the old 091s, there are 9x 093/A SSNs in service with the PLAN right now.

Also, this one from the article:
The new attack submarine launched by China this year could be a test model that isn’t intended for deployment. Entire projects can be scrapped for technical, economic or political reasons.
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Like, what the fvck is this sh1t lmao.
 
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Maikeru

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There's no proof of 9 093/A, I've seen credible arguments for anywhere between 6 and 9 but 6 is the number most often stated i.e. 2 originals, 1 with large square hump behind sail, 1 with slightly smaller, rounded hump, 2 with much smaller hump.
 
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