Speaking of the trump cards in the hands of the Chinese Navy, in addition to the familiar domestic aircraft carriers and the old faces of the 055 drive, the most mysterious must be the strategic nuclear submarine. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Navy, a mysterious new submarine appeared in the celebration video released by the military media official blog, judging from the appearance design, it is the domestic 039C submarine reported by foreign media. It is understood that the Type 039C submarine has reached the world's leading level, and the quietness and lethality have achieved a qualitative leap. The large-scale service of this "COSCO Sea Killer" is of great significance to the PLA to protect the security of the maritime frontier.
The mainland's submarine technology originated from the Soviet Union, and gradually shifted from imitation to independent research and development. Among them, the Type 039 submarine is a conventionally powered submarine developed by the mainland in the 90s. As a replacement for the Type 035, the first boat of the Type 039 entered service in 1999. Different from the previous conventional submarines, the Type 039 has strong silent technology and can also launch submarine-launched missiles, which is of great significance for the improvement of the strike capability of mainland submarines. In particular, the advent of the Type 039A submarine indicates that China's submarine research and development has reached the initial level of the "ocean black hole" of the Soviet "Kilo"-class submarines. On this basis, we have ushered in the updated iteration of Type 039B and Type 039C.
Since then, in the field of conventional submarines, the comprehensive capability of China's domestic submarines has ranked among the first echelon in the world. In particular, the Type 039C submarine unveiled this time is the AIP submarine with the most outstanding comprehensive performance in the mainland at present. Relying on the advanced AIP system and unique noise reduction design, the quiet performance of the Type 039C submarine has reached the world-class level. Judging from the picture released by the official media video, the new command shell structure of the Type 039C submarine resembles a "mushroom head", which is a sign of the submarine's pursuit of silence and stealth ultimate design, and the "mushroom head" of the Type 039C submarine is the first in the world, which also means that the Type 039C can maximize the advantages of silence on the basis of strong power, and its endurance, anti-submarine and anti-ship capabilities are remarkable. Even, the U.S. Navy has praised Type 039C as the world's most advanced AIP submarine.
While military fans were excited about the Type 039C submarine, another fierce news broke out on the Internet: recently, fishermen in the Penghu area of Taiwan suddenly found a large submarine floating through the Taiwan Strait. Judging from the satellite photos published on the Internet, it is very likely to be the 094 strategic nuclear submarine that Chinese military fans are waiting for.
The nuclear arsenal is the artifact of the town, and in the "three-in-one strike" system, the nuclear submarine is the most mysterious and has the ability to strike twice, so it is highly valued by military powers. Due to the relationship between national strategic security, the Type 094 strategic nuclear submarine has always been highly secret, and the official has never announced the detailed parameters. Judging from the evaluation and analysis of the past media, the underwater displacement of the Type 094 nuclear submarine can reach up to 14,000 tons, although the tonnage is not as big as the "God of the North Wind", but the lethality of the 094 cannot be underestimated. It can carry 12 "Julang-2" submarine-launched strategic missiles, which may have a range of more than 13,500 kilometers, and can carry 6-8 sub-warheads, and its performance is not inferior to the US Navy's "Trident II-D5" submarine-launched strategic missile. To put it simply, the combination of 094 and Julang-2 allows the PLA to directly attack the continental United States in the coastal waters of the mainland, which is crucial to the improvement of the mainland's nuclear counterattack capability.
For a long time, the focus of Sino-US contradictions and military conflicts has been at sea, and in the construction of maritime national defense, the construction of submarines and aircraft carriers on the mainland lagged behind for a time. Today, from domestic aircraft carriers to 039C submarines and 094 submarines, the mainland's shortcomings in these two major areas no longer exist. In the future, in the event of a military conflict between China and the United States, PLA submarines will play a key role. At that time, nuclear submarines carrying strategic missiles will not only tear apart the blockade of the US military's island chain, but also build a solid nuclear protection wall on the mainland. As long as the deep-sea ghost of nuclear submarines is still active underwater, the United States will not dare to completely tear its face and carry out nuclear threats against us. With the existence of underwater weapons, we will be more and more confident in dealing with maritime disputes and contradictions between rights and interests in territorial waters.