USN fearful of PLAN subs

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MIGleader

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china should build a ring of those sonobuoys around taiwan. thus if a US fleet enters, they will know. station subs and warships and planes on alert so they can go intercept the fleet.
 
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BKulan said:
wouldn't that be extremely expensive considering that there is a whole lot of sea to watch?

maybe that earthquake warning system in indian ocean isn't only seismic activity detection equipment but also a sonar system (would be a good cover)? anyone know which country gave most money to that project.
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Not if China is only putting it around Taiwan.
 
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Problem with such a network is that i don't see how it can be mounted/deployed in secrecy. I would think the US intelligence could pretty much know every location of such an embedded at the bottom of the sea sonar and deal with them accordingly if a war breaks out. Plus, the sonars would have to send the data somehow, that'd make them even more detectable. Or are we talking about a whole network of underwater laid cables?
 
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china putting sonobuoys around taiwan is not illegal, although it would get alot of foreign attention. remember, china legally owns taiwans waters.
 
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bd popeye said:
Well according to this article they are..My son,the USN sonar tech, says the greatest concern is over PLAN subs is the Song class deisel boats. Deisel boats running on batteries are very,very hard (if not impossible) to track.
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Well, first off, your son shouldn't be telling you what we, the USN, are afraid of. If, by some strange chance, he were found out, he'd be incarcerated.

However, it must be said that although the Songs are good boats, they pale incomparison to a Kilo 636.
 
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Neko said:
Neither do Songs, unless I am completely mistaken.
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They are getting fitted with them, but Yuan class does.
 
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tphuang said:
They are getting fitted with them, but Yuan class does.
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It is surmised that it is possible, but where in open source, barring that picture posted on the prior forum, have you seen anything suggesting that the Yuan is even large enough to house AIP?
 
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according to sinodefence.com, an aip was tested on a song sucssesfully, leading to the spec;s that it will be put on more songs. yes, a yuan is large enough to house an aip, and sinodefence says they may be fitted them aswell.
 
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