Posted on 10/07/2023 6:23:55 AM PDT by logi_cal869
A Chinese nuclear submarine got caught in a trap intended for U.S. or British submarines in the Yellow Sea, killing 55 people on board, multiple reports claimed. However, Beijing has not yet released any information to corroborate or deny the catastrophic accident.
The news outlets, citing a British intelligence report, said 22 officers, seven officer cadets, nine petty officers and 17 sailors were killed in an accident involving a Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) nuclear submarine on Aug. 21.
International Business Times could not independently verify the information.
If true, the incident "reflects poorly on the PLA Navy's capabilities," Niranjan Oak, a research analyst at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, told IBT.
PLA Navy submarine 093-417 was reportedly involved in the accident. The Shang-class submarine got caught in seabed defenses that were installed by Chinese forces to trap U.S. and allied submarines. It ran out of oxygen, killing 55 on board, the reports said.
"Our understanding is death caused by hypoxia (lack of oxygen) due to a system fault on the submarine," British intelligence officials reportedly said. "The submarine hit a chain and anchor obstacle used by the Chinese navy to trap U.S. and allied submarines. This resulted in systems failures that took six hours to repair and surface the vessel. The onboard oxygen system poisoned the crew after a catastrophic failure."
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Holy cow: I’m sure there’s a story behind digging that up from a year ago.
When I saw your comment I thought you were referencing this
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4267410/posts
(it’s late)
I’m just guessing that the ccp will label the latest reports of another sub sinking as ‘false’ as well... /s
Actually that was meant for ansel12 since his post referred to a hull number from a different class than then Zhou-class...and the hull number referenced (17 I think) has been deleted from Wikipedia.
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