Yuan Class AIP & Kilo Submarine Thread

Tomboy

Tomboy

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
In what way?
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From my understanding the reason why SSNs do not go for a stealthy sail is due to the fact that they can stay submerged for most of their mission including transit while SSKs remains surfaced for large parts of it's mission. A SSK-N should ideally inherent the capability for fully submerged transit like a SSN while remaining cheap like a SSK
 
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taxiya

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Tomboy said:
It has a 039C style conning tower which is odd for a supposed SSK-N
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I don't think people are making connections between the photo and the alledged SSK-N.
Tomboy said:
From my understanding the reason why SSNs do not go for a stealthy sail is due to the fact that they can stay submerged for most of their mission including transit while SSKs remains surfaced for large parts of it's mission. A SSK-N should ideally inherent the capability for fully submerged transit like a SSN while remaining cheap like a SSK
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You are talking about radar stealth. But the shape of sail is about acoustic stealth because the sail is a key noise generator underwater. A straight down profile is bad. The sloped shapes like project-955, project 971 etc. are good. 093C is yet another effort in the same direction.

See the research paper linked in post #1,418
 
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