The foreign media “Naval News” (Naval News) announced the discovery of a new submarine in mainland China has been launched on the 1st in Bohai Heavy Industry (i.e. Bohai Shipyard), the size is very huge, surpassing the former Soviet Union’s “Typhoon class” (Typhoon class) nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, will become It will be the largest submarine ever built in the history of mankind. The description in the newspaper is very professional and has attracted the attention of all walks of life, but the truth behind it has made the readers fall out of their eyes.
The U.S. submarine experts Sutton (HI Sutton) said that the ship is about 210 meters long and 30 meters wide, much larger than the Typhoon class, which is 175 meters long and 23 meters wide; not to mention the U.S. Army’s current 170-meter long and 13-meter wide “Ohio class” (Ohio class). Although it is not clear its displacement, but it must be beyond the Typhoon class submarine displacement of 48,000 tons.
The ship is said to be called the “Type 100” submarine, possibly to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 2021. Sutton noted that the Type 100 can carry 48 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, twice the number of the Ohio-class 24. It also has a hangar-like design behind its sail cover, which is thought to be used to carry a previously built mainland Chinese submarine without a sail cover, possibly as an escort for the Type 100 submarine, or to cut submarine network cables in wartime to wreak havoc on the economies of Europe and the United States.
Sutton asserts that the extremely large size of the Type 100 submarine, in addition to survivability, mission endurance, concealment, and political propaganda considerations, could also be used to carry bulky weapons like the Russian Poseidon intercontinental nuclear-powered torpedo, or represent mainland China’s intention to advance its underwater The polar strategy may represent mainland China’s intention to advance its polar strategy from underwater and join the U.S. and Russian competition in the Arctic region.
Despite the fact that Naval News wrote about it, the satellite images mentioned in the article have not been revealed, and foreign media coverage of the story has been unusually sparse. The story was in fact a joke, a “special report” for April 1, April Fool’s Day, and the mastermind behind it was Sutton, a U.S. submarine expert who edited and wrote the article.
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