My video about the Type 041 submarine
Rumoured "mini-nuke/diesel" Submarine SSK-N(?) thread
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We know a couple of boats have been launched, and we've had satellite pictures of them.
Otherwise we don't know if they are going to be continue getting produced/what the level of PLAN commitment is to it.
And all of this is in context of our ongoing up to date knowledge of PLAN submarine projects (and especially those with a nuclear component, whether it's SSNs, or this "SSKN" or SSBNs) being partial and often out of date to begin with.
So having it "die down" in terms of our awareness of any up to date information also doesn't technically mean anything either.
We do? AFAIK there was only one single boat ever launched of the class with nothing to follow for years afterward
As I understand it we have one definitively imaged, and another that is said to have been launched somewhere else in existence.
I highly doubt it; I haven't even seen a single person talk or even hint about this other than those terrible USNI reports which are completely bogus. Would it be possible to provide a source for the alleged second boat? If credible could be quite an interesting development from what we currently know.
My impression some years ago was that more than one was expected to be produced initially.
But if we base it off imagery, considering it as "at least one SSKN" is fine with me.