China’s Shoddy, Noisy Nuclear Submarines

THE NATIONAL INTEREST ^ | October 7, 2015 | Dave Majumdar

[353FMG]

Just hope that the American sub is not under the command of a muzzie.

[SampleMan]

Fortunately for them, word is the US Navy’s new P-8 can’t do ASW.

That's news to me, and I work with the program and the active duty squadrons.

[Dick Bachert]

Actually, they're American depth charge and torpedo targets. But we'll have to have our own navy.

We must IMMEDIATELY send a task force of these mighty vessels – now the standard warship in Obama's “New Navy” – into the Med to deal with those pesky Ruskies.

Armed with a single M2 .50 caliber Browning, this much feared naval vessel carries up to 30 rounds of full cardboard jacketed paper bag piercing ammunition. It is the first in an entirely new naval architecture class -- technically, “clitoral” (not to be confused with “littoral”) -- being pushed on the Pentagon by the defense minded wussies in the Obama Administration as a cost-saving measure. If you look closely, you can see the heavy-duty seat restraint which prevents the helmsman/gunner shown here – Seaman 4th Class Kenneth “Kamakazi” Kowalski – from leaping from the vessel prior to engaging the enemy. The 12 V trolling motor – which lacks a reverse function -- propels this sophisticated craft forward at a top speed of 4 knots. Reverse travel – at approximately 35 knots -- is achieved by firing the Browning.

The no-bid contract to build 300 of these fearsome warships was awarded to the Obama-Soros-Emanuel Shipbuilding and Stormdoor Manufacturing Company (formerly General Dynamics) and will be administered by trusted Obama associate, Chicago Mayor and former Chief-of-Staff Rahm Emanuel who commented that, at $12 million each, they are a bargain. Constructed exclusively at the company’s facility in Kenya with major sub-component production (rivets and miscellaneous fasteners) at the company’s Harlem and Skokie plants. Delivery and sea trials of 100 of these began in 2013 with the remaining 200 to follow as soon as the subcontractors’ funds are safely in the contractor's numbered Swiss account.

[Straight Vermonter]

You beat me to it!

[tophat9000]

Who caption that drawing?...zinc chromate primer is Not a non skid material... it’s anti corrosion

[Lower Deck]

Fortunately for them, word is the US Navy’s new P-8 can’t do ASW.

And I'm all in favor of letting the Chinese continue to believe that.

[Lower Deck]

What if the noise is a head-fake by the inscrutable Chinese?

A quiet submarine can't fake being a noisy one. There are a lot of different sources for noise and some submarines, like the one pictured, are noisy due to design.

[Vinnie]

Remember it well. Have never bought a Toshiba product since.
IMO that debacle is one of two Reagan decisions I disagreed with.
He should have lifted Toshiba’s import license.

[Undecided 2012]

hey great pic one thing I miss is FR used to have great graphics. My favorite was Osama bin Laden porking Kerry back in 2003

[JoeFromSidney]

What if the noise is a head-fake by the inscrutable Chinese?

I wondered that too.

"For ways that are dark, and for tricks that are vain, the Heathen Chinee is peculiar." Bret Harte.

[BwanaNdege]

Fortunately for them, word is the US Navy’s new P-8 can’t do ASW.

Now you know that NOTHING has been able to do ASW since the P2-V!

If you can't open that square back hatch, how are you gonna' chuck out the wooden block with the long burning smoke?

P-8 does not have that!

P-8 doesn't have the cool observer seat in the nose bubble to ride in during Zuni runs on the aforementioned long burning smoke block!

I'll bet the P-8 doesn't even have the upper wing skin running THROUGH the fuselage, so when you're heading aft (and don't know what you're doing), you end up sliding face first in a heap into the comm station.

The P-8 doesn't even have a MAD man!

[Patron92]

Coffee on the wing beam.

[BwanaNdege]

Coffee on the wing beam.

"A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."

(well, at least 1966, VP-24, NAS Norfolk, IIRC)