Posted on 11/15/2025 5:17:29 AM PST by whyilovetexas111
A new RUSI report warns that China’s submarine fleet is rapidly “closing the gap” qualitatively, “eroding” the U.S. Navy’s technological edge. While China’s current 6 Type 093 SSNs are “noisy” (comparable to a 1970s Victor III), the upcoming Type 095 SSN will be much larger (11,000 tons) and quieter, using Russian reactor designs. Furthermore, the new Type 096 SSBN will be nearly Ohio-class size (15,000 tons) and armed with 24 6,000-mile-range JL-3 missiles, allowing it to strike the continental U.S. from “safe” Chinese bastions.
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Only if they’re made in China.
If China has an advanced submarine, I’m assuming they stole the plans from someone, and the finished product will be made from inferior materials and will probably dissolve in salt water.
I’m guessing China’s submarines are about as technologically advanced as their bridge building so I’m not seeing a threat.
Overconfidence is stupid and dangerous. Our grandfathers knew the Japanese could never be a threat. See Pearl Harbor 1941.
The trillions of dollars wasted on unworkable social programs and vote-buying welfare in addition tothe greedy business owners and easily bought politicians COULD have ensured the U.S. maintained the lead in all fields.
Could but nope
China advanced submarine = they removed the screen door.
I have never heard of this magazine.
Here is the author's bio:
Michael Peck writes about defense and international security issues, as well as military history and wargaming. His work has appeared in Defense News, Foreign Policy Magazine, Politico, National Defense Magazine, The National Interest, Aerospace America and other publications. He holds an MA in Political Science from Rutgers University. (Nothing is said about his Military Industrial Industry Experience)
This “National Security Journal” which I have seen posted here more often recently, seems to be stalking horse for interests that wish even more money to be spend on our military. Those interests may be varied, and their motivations are unknown.
I have heard it said that China sees money spent on armaments as wasted money, when they can achieve their goals without those gigantic defense expenditures via subterfuge, espionage, theft of intellectual property, predatory business practices, and propaganda. They spend enough on the military to encourage us to make even larger expenditures on our military that we have to increase our debt to do.
That is just a theory, that I have heard some respected people venture, based on the fact that the CCP has been dedicated to engaging in asymmetrical warfare on all non-kinetic fronts (Economic, Military, Societal) against the United States for decades, and our leadership seems not to notice. They saw what took place in the Gulf War, and concentrated efforts in other places, but need to string us along in military expenditures to bankrupt us in the same way we bankrupted the Soviet Union. At least, that is how the theory goes.
It is my opinion that we should indeed spend money on our military, but we need an overhaul on how that is done, especially in the acquisition process. If we need to spend money we don’t have, we better figure out how to do it more intelligently and efficiently.
Good discovery!
Another political hack trying to reinvent himself into relevancy.
Surly those 600,000 Chinese students Trump wants to admit to American universities will help China achieve submarine dominance in the seas - after they steal American technology.
Totally agree.
The number of unknown magazines popping up, put out red flags.
The people who write most of them don’t have a clue how the real world works.
I noticed the same thing.
This guy posted something last week from the same site saying Chinese Aircraft Carriers were a threat to the USA.
Yes, nothing screams superiority like Chinese steel. 😆
See my post #15.
Overconfidence is stupid and dangerous. Our grandfathers knew the Japanese could never be a threat. S
Actually, once we gained Hawaii and The Philippines, after the Spanish-American War, many came to the conclusion that even then we were on a collision course with Japan.
That’s why we beefed up our Naval presence in The Pacific, and relied on The Royal Navy to make up for it in the Atlantic.
That’s why we had no choice but to support Britain in the two World Wars.
“But can we even make enough submarines to challenge China now?”
Doesn’t matter. How many times can Russia, the US, or the other nuclear countries destroy the world? Only takes once. And the domino falls with a little push taking the rest with it.
wy69
Spend some time on an AI and ask “How many tons of rare earth magnets are in US weapons and how many were built in 2024”?
Then set that number to zero with the magnets cut off by China. Same is true of the food freezers at Walmart. Their compressors are made by Copeland company, and they make them in China, using RE magnets. That stops.
So your food is at Walmart, until the compressor fails, as it will. Then . . . your food is not at Walmart. It is somewhere else, until their compressor fails.
China has the cards. The agreement to suspend their 1 year long export constraints of RE *** materials *** did not include magnets, which got restricted in April.
There is no deal with China to keep those flowing. Nothing was signed. Compressors will start failing and inventory depleting.
We CAN build our own. We imported 7500 metric tons in 2024. So far this year, 323 metric tons. For our internally funded operations to get to even 1000 metric tons will require 10-15 yrs.
They have the cards and to protect Wall Street this is being kept off the front page. Compressor and alternator failures will put it there, probably soon.
That is a “red” flag. Pure propaganda for the ChiComs.
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