Photos and videos were posted on the Network, where you can see the newest Chinese submarine, known as the Type 039C Yuan. They managed to compare it with a promising Swedish submarine of the Blekinge type, which has similar external features.
In the new photos and videos, you can see one of the most" mysterious " Chinese submarines — the newest Type 039C, the existence of which became known recently.
Last month, a specialist in the field of naval forces, H. I. Sutton, showed a photo, which supposedly shows the new ship. It was difficult to make out anything in the picture, so the real" presentation " of the boat took place a little later.
Type 039C / ©thedrive The new video shows how the submarine moves along the river. Most likely, this is the Yangtze, where the submarine was lowered in Wuhan. It is probably moving downstream for further testing.
We are talking about the newest and potentially the most advanced representative of the family of diesel-electric boats of the Yuan type. These are the most numerous and powerful diesel-electric submarines in the arsenal of the Naval Forces of the People's Republic of China. According to open sources, now the fleet of the Middle Kingdom has 17 such ships.
Type 039C
Image source: thedrive
The new submarine has an original appearance, but it is difficult to call it unique. Similar features can be seen on the promising Swedish boat Blekinge, known as A26. Most likely, the choice of design is due to the desire to make the submarine as low-noise as possible.
Image A26
Image source: NN
The re-equipment of the submarine fleet is of exceptional importance for the future of the PRC and the possible "redistribution of the world". Although the naval forces of the Middle Kingdom were equal in quantity with the US Navy (according to some reports, the Chinese even surpassed the Americans), it is too early to talk about qualitative parity.
American submarines are more powerful and modern. The United States has already built two dozen new multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Virginia type, belonging to the fourth (last for today) generation. They want to increase the total number of such submarines to 66 in the future. Among other things, they will be able to use a new hypersonic weapon, the first carrier of which, as it became known recently, should be the destroyer Zumwalt.
The Russian submarine fleet is in second place in terms of its potential. The commissioning of the first multi-purpose nuclear submarine of the 885M project was a serious reinforcement. In the [...] photos presented recently, you can take a detailed look at this ship from the inside.
