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Satellite images capture single Chinese nuclear submarine entering 'Bond lair' cave complex - but all other berths are empty sparking fears the subs are all shadowing the US fleet
2020-08-20
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • New photos show the Yulin Naval Base on Hainan Island in China - a vital strategic site for Beijing

  • For the first time, a submarine is seen entering an underwater cave network constructed below a mountain

  • The 'James Bond lair' was built around 12 years ago, experts believe, and is one of several managed by China

  • Submarines have been seen at the berths before, but never entering the caves, experts believe
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Posted by:Skidmark

#3  Towed SONAR array
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-08-20 18:35  

#2  It's a really good idea. Maybe lose the nets and just make the buoys very passive detect sensitive and able to maneuver. Once such a buoy attached or even detected a sub nearby, it could phone home or even call bigger friends that are in the vicinity.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-08-20 16:41  

#1  Do we have any way to deploy bouys with nets hanging between them so as to give away a sub following behind one of ours? Such a net might give away presence (bouys would suddenly move as the net is hit) but could also be used to attach things to the following subs hull forcing htem to slow and remove. Or is that sort of thing just fantasy...
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-08-20 12:39  

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