China’s newest nuclear-powered submarine sank earlier this year, US officials say

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-26 21:45:44 | Updated at 2024-10-01 01:32:48 4 days ago

China’s newest nuclear-powered submarine sank earlier this year, US officials say
CNN ^ | 26-SEP-2024 | Oren Liebermann and Paul P. Murphy

Posted on 09/26/2024 2:36:55 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas

China’s newest nuclear-powered submarine sank pierside in the spring and the Chinese Navy tried to conceal the loss, according to two US defense officials.

The attack submarine was the first of its new Zhou-class line of vessels, the official said, under construction at a shipyard near the city of Wuhan. The Zhou-class submarines have a distinctive X-shaped stern, designed to improve maneuverability underwater.

A satellite image from March 10, taken by Maxar Technologies, shows the Zhou-class sub, with its signature x-shape tail, docked at the port. Additional Maxar imagery reviewed by CNN from later in June shows that the sub did not return to the pier.

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RuZZia and China are being demilitarized.

To: SpeedyInTexas

China can poison the oceans and poison the planet (i.e. COVID-19), and not a (*&^*&^%#&^%# word from the environ-wackos!

2 posted on 09/26/2024 2:39:59 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)

To: SpeedyInTexas

Hope no one was killed, assuming the sinking was not staged.

3 posted on 09/26/2024 2:45:00 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (The one most called "dangerous" by minions of the pot normalization conspiracy)

To: SpeedyInTexas

“The U.S. doesn’t know if the sub was carrying nuclear fuel at the time it sank, but experts outside the U.S. government said that was likely.”

4 posted on 09/26/2024 2:45:24 PM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (Defeat the Pro-RuZZia wing of the Republican Party)

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