JIM MORRIS
China has celebrated the 70th birthday of its submarine fleet by giving the public a brief look at its newest sub.
The vessel was featured briefly in a video on the official Weibo account of the People’s Liberation Army Navy. And it’s considerably different than any other Chinese submarine seen before.
Analysts told the Global Times, the English-language newspaper linked to the Chinese Communist Party, that the sub has a unique design that gives it additional stealth capabilities. They say it is already operational.
The submarine’s angled sail is identical to that of a sub called the Type 039C Yuan class, a non-nuclear attack type, in published accounts.
Last November, the Paris-based Nava News headlined a story “Chinese Submarine Is First To Exploit New Technology.”
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