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Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
09-01-2014, 10:20 PM
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/928076-china-prepares-navy-warships-to-fight-us-submarines/

China Prepares Navy Warships to Fight US Submarines



By Joshua Philipp, Epoch Times | September 1, 2014

China has a glaring hole in its military strategy against the United States. Military analysts have pointed out that while China is investing in ballistic and cruise missiles to keep foreign ships away, it has little to counter U.S. submarines which would play a pivotal role in a conflict with China.

The Chinese regime seems to have become privy to this gap. It has been building and deploying systems designed to detect and attack U.S. submarines. Recent photos show China has also begun fitting warships with sonar systems designed for anti-submarine warfare.

Two types of ships in China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) are being fitted with what appear to be variable depth sonars (VDSs). Images of the additional systems were posted on cjdby.net (which appears to be offline at the time of writing), and were picked up by IHS Janes, a leading security intelligence company.

The two ship models are China’s Type 054A frigates and the Type 056 corvettes. The photos were taken at Huangpu shipyard in Guangzhou province, China.


Both models of the Chinese ships are already equipped with bow-mounted sonars. The new sonar systems are tow arrays. An analysis from IHS Janes says the location of the new sonar systems, “suggest that some platforms will be primarily anti-submarine warfare.”

The Chinese regime has been trying to build an arsental of weapons and systems capable of detecting and destroying submarines.

A recent report from the U.S. Naval War College says China’s navy has “limitations or weaknesses in several areas,” which include anti-air warfare and anti-submarine warfare. It notes, however, that China is trying to change this.

Currently, mine warfare is the Chinese navy’s key strategy for countering submarines. The report states that China’s mine warfare school is in Dalian, near one of China’s major surface warfare schools for military officers. It states that close to 55 PLAN submarines can sow mines, and that China has been “increasingly emphasizing training for aircrews in mining tactics, techniques, and procedures.”

The U.S. Naval Institute found in April that China is also deploying a network of sensors on the ocean floor to “strengthen its antisubmarine-warfare capability.”

The network of sensors is similar to the U.S. Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), which the U.S. Navy started in 1949 for anti-submarine warfare. SOSUS listening posts are deployed in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean, typically at geographic chokepoints that submarines will likely pass through. The system was used to keep track of Soviet submarines during the Cold War.

The Naval Institute states that analysts inside and outside China “have rightly pointed to the [PLAN's] quite obvious weaknesses in antisubmarine warfare (ASW) as a persistent Achilles’ heel of the evolving force.” It notes that despite China’s focus on fighting submarines, it still has a “long road ahead…”

According to The Diplomat, however, if the Chinese regime were to perfect such technology, “it could largely negate the military capabilities of America’s submarine forces…”

We should be asking why China perfected an anti aircraft carrier ballistic missile designed specifically to hit/destroy American carriers. And now are working on how to counter our subs!!!
While Obama courts them and seeks to counter with stupid words Putin.
The jackass doesn't comprehend that neither one is our ally and both want to supplant us in world power and influence.
His deliberate weakening of this nation is bad enough even before one considers his stupidity and cowardice in foreign policy.
Yet it all fits in with his carrying out the Globalist and their muslim allies agenda.
He alienates our former allies to go with the muslims, a sure fire recipe for disaster IMHO!!--Tyr

Gunny
09-02-2014, 11:24 AM
Seems to me there's a glaring flaw in their little strategy. US submarines don't have to get within sonar range to launch cruise missiles. Only to fire on the warships themselves with conventional weapons (torpedoes).

The Chinese Wile E. Coyote's might want to head back to the drawing board.:laugh:

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
09-02-2014, 06:58 PM
Seems to me there's a glaring flaw in their little strategy. US submarines don't have to get within sonar range to launch cruise missiles. Only to fire on the warships themselves with conventional weapons (torpedoes).

The Chinese Wile E. Coyote's might want to head back to the drawing board.:laugh:
shhhh, as soon as the terrorist loving golfingboy finds that out he will send Lurch to tell the Chinese about it.
You know , only fair to give 'em a heads up because its the liberal thing to do. :rolleyes: