New Chinese submarine of unknown type caught on video

Sea trials of a new non-nuclear submarine have begun near Shanghai. The ship's departure to sea was caught on video and appeared on social networks. The music in the video is cheerful, so watch with sound.

The type of ship built at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding shipyard is not named. Presumably this is the lead submarine of the new project 039C, equipped with an air-independent power plant, writes Dambiev . The hull of the submarine is clad in a new coating that absorbs and scatters sonar signals. The ship's own sonar is also new, with improved characteristics, and the main weapon of the submarine will be anti-ship cruise missiles based on the export version of the Russian Kalibr complex.

Type 039 submarines have been produced since the early 2000s. In October 2006, one of them suddenly surfaced at a torpedo attack distance next to the American aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk - that with American unceremoniousness showed a flag near the Chinese coast.

Anton Valagin