Not long ago, a US Seawolf-class nuclear submarine collided in the South China Sea, and so far the United States has neither announced the cause of the submarine impact nor taken the initiative to publish photos, let alone clarify why nuclear submarines are sent to the vicinity of the world's busiest maritime trade routes. And just when the last nuclear submarine collision incident has not been publicly and transparently announced, another US nuclear submarine is suspected of floating near Huangyan Island recently, so what is the reason for this time? Did you bump into something again?
According to social media reports, the South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness released a message saying that at about 10 a.m. on October 22, the "Sentinel" satellite suspected of finding a nuclear submarine floated by the US military in the waters north of Huangyan Dao. According to reports, a P-8A anti-submarine patrol aircraft of the US Navy departed from Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines to reconnoiter the South China Sea, and was suspected of cooperating with the submarine's actions.
It should be said that it is no secret that the United States has deployed a large number of nuclear submarines in the South China Sea, and it is extremely irresponsible to deploy military forces on such a busy trade route. With the accidental collision of the last Seawolf-class nuclear submarine, neighboring countries have increased their attention to U.S. underwater power in the region. And this time the US nuclear submarine float may be due to an invisible underwater cat-and-mouse war.
At present, the endurance time of AIP conventional ships can reach 2500 nautical miles, and as a nuclear submarine, theoretically, from launch to service, you can not pay the surface. If it were not for abnormal circumstances, it would never have surfaced easily, especially near the island, which is a rather dangerous event. The surface of the US nuclear submarine this time is nothing more than the following situations: First, the submarine has failed, which includes insurmountable failures of the submarine itself, such as the inability to produce oxygen, loss of power, and nuclear reactor failure. Then there is the inability to dive after an accidental impact like the Seawolf-class submarines.
Second, the submarine is targeted by the anti-potential amount, which can be an anti-submarine destroyer, an anti-submarine helicopter or a fixed-wing large anti-submarine aircraft. Once the fixed-wing large anti-submarine is found to be moving, even if it is not in a state of engagement, it cannot launch anti-submarine weapons, but it can also locate the approximate range of the submarine through the anti-submarine buoy, and produce huge interference with the submarine through sonar "knocking", if the submarine captain cannot get out of tracking in time, for a long time under the interference of the fixed-wing anti-submarine aircraft, the submarine crew will even be in a state of collapse, and finally have to float up to show their identity.
Of course, whether it is the first or the second state, the submarine's secret combat equipment is not very common in other places except for floating in its own home port base, and it can even be described as "failure". Even in today's situation where various reconnaissance methods are very developed, it is difficult to see submarines of other countries floating at will, let alone very sensitive nuclear submarines. The floating of the US nuclear submarine may be caused by the defeat in an underwater "cat and mouse game" with anti-potential forces.
Of course, this time the US nuclear submarine is suspected of floating near the northern waters of Huangyan Island, but also a warning, the activities of US submarines in the entire South China Sea can be said to be very frequent, with the united States in the Pacific Deployed underwater sonar array and a variety of hydrophones, the United States' underwater advantages are very obvious.
At present, the strength of domestic surface ships and the United States has become closer and closer, and some of them have obvious advantages, and the contest underwater has just begun. With the help of advanced fixed-wing anti-submarine aircraft such as the 8th and 9th, the devil's claws hidden in the deep sea of the United States will sooner or later appear, and the Pacific Ocean will not tolerate such dirty behavior of the US military.