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Satellite Image Shows Chinese Submarine Entering 'Top Secret Cave'
Radio Free Asia ^ | Aug 21, 2020 | Radio Free Asia

Posted on 08/21/2020 6:46:27 AM PDT by texas booster

A rare #satellite image of what appears to be a #Chinese Type 093 sub at the entrance of a not-so-secret, subterranean base at China's southern #Hainan island. Yulin Naval Base is home to subs of #China’s South Sea Fleet and provides convenient access to the South China Sea.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinanavy; type093
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From Wiki:

The submarine base is located at the point in Chinese territory that is closest to the continental shelf. It is roughly 50 nautical miles (93 km) from the base to the 200 meter isobath. It is 150 nautical miles (280 km) to the closest of the disputed Paracel Islands or the city of Da Nang, Vietnam. Speculation has been raised that the base is intended to be expanded to include future capability for aircraft carrier groups.

The submarine base is only a few miles from the city of Sanya, a popular tourist destination and the site of a major planned cruise hub. The base is immediately next to the Yalong Bay National Resort District featuring many resort hotels.

1 posted on 08/21/2020 6:46:28 AM PDT by texas booster
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To: texas booster

The pic from Radio Free Asia.

They are rapidly becoming "must read" Internet. It wasn't that way a few years ago ...

2 posted on 08/21/2020 6:48:50 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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More from Wiki:

The caverns are capable of hiding up to 20 nuclear submarines based on reconnaissance satellites data collected. The harbor houses nuclear ballistic missile submarines and is large enough to accommodate aircraft carriers. The US Department of Defense has estimated that China will have five Type 094 nuclear submarines operational by 2010 with each capable of carrying 12 JL-2 intercontinental ballistic missiles. Two 950 metre piers and three smaller ones would be enough to accommodate two carrier strike groups or amphibious assault ships.

I had heard of the base (here on FR) but haven't paid much attention to it. Another link mentioned that the underground caverns can hold 20 subs when full.

Looks like a good military target for an underwater drone ...

3 posted on 08/21/2020 6:51:31 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Secret Lairs! They exist


4 posted on 08/21/2020 6:52:38 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults.)
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To: texas booster
From The Diplomat:

yulin base prc

5 posted on 08/21/2020 6:54:08 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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Surf’s up at those surrounding resorts, eh?


6 posted on 08/21/2020 6:54:09 AM PDT by silverleaf (Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
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To: texas booster

Nice cruise missile target.


7 posted on 08/21/2020 6:55:39 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: texas booster

I’ve been to Hainan several times and Sanya once. As the crow flies, the sub base is about 10 or 11 miles form Sanya.


8 posted on 08/21/2020 6:57:14 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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“a good military target”

All it would take is one device to close the entrance once the subs are in there!


9 posted on 08/21/2020 7:00:16 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: texas booster

A MOAB dropped at the entry might slow them down a little. Wait until the cave is full...Boom!


10 posted on 08/21/2020 7:06:33 AM PDT by moovova (https://therealjoe.com/)
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To: Bigg Red

mark


11 posted on 08/21/2020 7:07:56 AM PDT by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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To: texas booster

Paid for by our trade deficit.


12 posted on 08/21/2020 7:14:05 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: texas booster; Lazamataz
Laz is strangely excited.


13 posted on 08/21/2020 7:18:16 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: texas booster
Nothing new. Nazis and Soviets had these underground bases.

I'll bet we have undersea bases. I know we were experimenting in the 1960s using a deep lake in Utah as a test bed.

14 posted on 08/21/2020 7:25:45 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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15 posted on 08/21/2020 7:25:58 AM PDT by Bratch (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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16 posted on 08/21/2020 7:32:00 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: texas booster

Bkmk


17 posted on 08/21/2020 7:42:41 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Rebelbase

“Tip of the Spear”!


18 posted on 08/21/2020 7:59:57 AM PDT by moovova (https://therealjoe.com/)
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To: texas booster

It’s clear the Chinese wanted us to see this. The question is “Why”?


19 posted on 08/21/2020 8:02:13 AM PDT by glennaro (Democrat/Leftist strategy: I can control you if I can frighten you enough.)
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To: rfreedom4u

All it would take is one device to close the entrance once the subs are in there!
= = =

Like any competent gopher, they have multiple exits. Some which have never been seen, and some never open before, just waiting for a prepared explosive charge to open.

At least, that is what I would do.


20 posted on 08/21/2020 8:09:36 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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