Miscalculation: China Building More Nuclear Subs Than Pentagon Estimated, Report
Some of America's most influential think tanks and the Pentagon have likelyunderestimated the number of Chinese nuclear submarines under construction, a new report suggests.
Satellite imagery of the Bohai Shipyard and Longpo Naval Facility taken by Planet Labs shows that “China does not yet have a credible sea-based deterrent,”Catherine Dill of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey told Defense One. Two of China's four Jin-class submarines “appear to not be in operation and are undergoing maintenance or repairs at the Bohai shipyard, suggesting to us that credibility is still in question.”
Defense One said that contradicts the US Defense Department’s 2018 China Military Report and the Center for Strategic and International Studies' (CSIS) report, which had stated that China had four operational Jin-class subs.
The report said there is one additional submarine under construction that the Pentagon missed.
Jeffrey Lewis, a colleague of Dill, discovered that China had one more nuclear submarine in development than previously believed. He observed a total of five submarine hulls in production, three at Longpo and two at the Bohai shipyard, indicating that China's modernization efforts are ahead of schedule to meeting its goal of eight.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-28/miscalculation-china-building-more-nuclear-subs-pentagon-estimated-report
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