Photo Emerges Of Chinese Submarine
By Secret Cave In Side Of Mountain
Daily Wire,
by
Hank Berrien
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/20/2020 8:48:03 PM
An image taken by Planet Labs shows a Chinese submarine that one military writer surmises could be a nuclear-powered attack submarine possibly exiting a secretive James Bond-like cave built into the side of a Chinese mountain.Journalist Tyler Rogoway writes at The Drive that China’s huge Yulin Naval Base on Hainan Island, home to China’s nuclear ballistic missile submarine fleet, has a “submarine cave built into the side of a mountain that dominates the southern end of the installation.”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1 8/20/2020 9:20:28 PM (No. 516068)
Fly a nuke cruise missile right into the cave. Problem solved.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/20/2020 10:35:19 PM (No. 516098)
"Oriana Skylar Mastro, a fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, told Long, “Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is one of the last remaining U.S. strengths against China … Chinese submarines, as they become more advanced, are still noisier than U.S. submarines."
This "fellow" sounds like a graduate of Stanford's 'Confucius Institute' with his "last remaining" comment. I'm no submariner, but I believe our ASW is second to none, and besides, underwater it's sound that kills. We'll be able to hear those Chinese cooks as they clang their spatulas against the woks. s/o
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NYbob 8/20/2020 10:47:40 PM (No. 516107)
So innovative. Their sub is a Chinese copy of our subs. Remember when the Australian sailing team put a tarp around their unique keel before racing and winning the America's Cup? Maybe the USA should treat our multi-billion dollar defense systems with at least as much security.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
inspectorudy 8/20/2020 11:01:46 PM (No. 516113)
As with the Russians and their inferior subs, give them time to operate in the real world and they will sink of their own accord.
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When the Cold War ended - and there was no more Soviet submarine threat - we declassified SOSUS and loaned its incredible capability to help save the whales. Unbeknownst to them, we knew pretty much the exact location of every deployed sub in their arsenal from the time they slipped below the surface.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
droopydog 8/20/2020 11:47:11 PM (No. 516130)
I keep picturing a scene from "Team America, World Police" Ah, Hans Brix!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
HotRod 8/20/2020 11:56:58 PM (No. 516134)
Already targeted. We can collapse that mountain on top of that sub, and any others that may be there. We know when it leaves or returns.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 8/21/2020 12:28:55 AM (No. 516153)
Not secret. I was aware of this some years ago in the open literature, for those who pay attention to these things.
A cruise missile with a small nuke could fly right up into the mouth, detonate and seal in however many subs are in there, and totally eliminate the base - permanently. A pretty stupid way to make a base. Not more resistant to attack, EASIER to attack.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/21/2020 1:46:25 AM (No. 516182)
I’m sure we have cruise missiles that can fly about 2-4 feet above the sea level and fly right through the front door and destroy whatever is there. Just send in 10-15 in a row about 30 seconds apart and go get a cup of coffee.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lazyman 8/21/2020 6:45:11 AM (No. 516245)
I'm pretty sure they will find a way to steal our secrets or flip someone in our government to give it to them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MattMusson 8/21/2020 7:27:30 AM (No. 516283)
We can drop a few smart mines at the entrance and plug up the entire submarine base like a cork in a bottle.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
3XALADY 8/21/2020 8:42:35 AM (No. 516402)
My thanks to posters for sharing information I did not know.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 8/21/2020 10:44:01 AM (No. 516592)
#9, no need to waste more than just one missile.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 8/21/2020 10:53:00 AM (No. 516615)
Fortified fixed positions became obsolete about 1865 or so when rifled artillery came into wide use. The rifling spun the shell, giving it enough accuracy to hit very near the same spot at will from long range. All fortresses could then be just battered down with moderate effort by focussing on one point, and continuing to shell that spot until the walls were down. Note that no fortresses were built after about 1865 or near that date.
You CAN hide deep enough underground to avoid a "near miss" with a nuclear weapon and survive. But a silly cave entrance like that....the fools in charge have been watching too many James Bond movies and similar "cool" but militarily foolish drivel.
For example. In Korea, a friend was a crewman on the USS Missouri, "Big Mo", a battleship which could fire 16" artillery shells weighing over 2,000 lbs. They patrolled along the North Korean coast, with rugged mountains in many areas, and with trains moving along near the shore. The favorite technique was to wait for a train to enter a tunnel...which the locomotive engineers did "for safety" when they saw the big ship show up. Then the Big Mo would fire a couple of shells to close the tunnel mouth ahead of the train and then close the tunnel behind the train....and leave. In a month or so, depending on terrain, the NorKs had opened up the tunnel and repaired the tracks. And then we'd do it again.
Hiding in caves is foolish, and became a LOT more foolish with precision strike weapons which can hit within a meter or so from 1500 miles away. Even a few conventional cruise missiles up that cave mouth would play havoc.
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