In what way is that a completely unreasonable assumption (your comment points to that I think), given the fact that we are a priori talking about speculation here?
So essentially the assumptions in that study run contrary to what we roughly know about the current or speculated state of the art in China as far as nuclear submarines are concerned.
Or, the assumptions in that study run contrary to our assumptions?
Exactly He makes it sound as if the pneumatic shock absorber is the best thing since sliced bread. It is not Pneumatic shock absorber is ubiquitous in industry and most commonly use in the heavy truck industry. The Chinese must be blind not knowing it and need to steal the technology from Russia. Another thing we have some report some years back that China has successfully designed a reactor with more than 50% of cooling using natural circulation.Chinese civilian reactor design capability is quite advanced. They have 5 or 6 reactor designs concurrently now. I don't know why China has to beg for Russian design. It all smacks like "China can't invent things".Another thing designing a pneumatic shock absorber is quite simple why wait 10 years . There are hundreds of Chinese industrial suppliers and truck components that can do that. But designing an active feedback control is difficult..There is a report some years back of a Chinese scientist who just do that in Australia.
What they expect from the 095 is likely below what the 093B is today.