A few days ago, the aftermath of the collision of the US "Seawolf" class nuclear submarine "Connecticut" has not been flat, and everyone's speculation and reasoning is nothing more than to wonder "What exactly did the Connecticut hit?" Where exactly is the collision site?
Based on limited public information, it is difficult for ordinary military enthusiasts and netizens to draw accurate conclusions. Therefore, I believe that there will be a knot in everyone's heart, that is, this collision incident with the US military, does the Chinese military know what to do? Will China be able to know and grasp some more detailed and accurate information about the collision of US submarines in a timely manner?
On October 13, "CCTV Military" made a program to try to solve the mystery of "where the US nuclear submarine accident occurred", in which hu Bo, director of the "South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness Program", was interviewed. Hu Bo said that the "South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness Plan" used open source data such as the ship automatic tracking system, the aerial broadcast automatic surveillance system and remote sensing satellite imagery to detect that at about 10:00 a.m. on October 3, about 48.7 nautical miles southeast of the Paracel Islands, a suspected "Seawolf" class submarine was found floating. Subsequently monitored routes indicated that the submarine was heading for Guam. Hu Bo said in the interview, "We judge that the nuclear submarine probably had an accident on the afternoon or evening of October 2. According to the image on the 3rd, 10 to 20 hours backwards, combined with the sailing speed when floating, and then pushed north for about 200 nautical miles, the location of the accident is likely to be south of Hainan Island and north of the Paracel Islands, that is, in the middle of the triangle area of Hainan Island, Xisha Islands and Bashi Strait, which is also a very active area of the US military in the South China Sea. ”
As we all know, the "South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness Plan" is a non-governmental think tank. Most of the resources it can rely on are publicly available open source data. Based on these data, it can be inferred to such a degree, indicating that there are still many clues to be traced after the crash of the US submarine.
There is a very important key point in Hu Bo's statement, that is, the discovery of "suspected 'Seawolf' class submarines is in a floating state." This has also been confirmed by relevant open source remote sensing satellite images on the previous network. This is critical because it shows that the Connecticut collided with a floating voyage. Under normal circumstances, the submarine has a serious collision and will also float. This is the first action. After checking that there are no other problems, it will voluntarily return to the ship. During this period, from the perspective of safety, it is generally not dare to dive in deep water. The "Seawolf" class returned home in a floating state, in fact, its "fox tail" was revealed.
At the surface speed of a nuclear submarine, from the point of collision to the time it sails out of the South China Sea, I can monitor at least 10 hours. For such a long time, the Seawolf-class Connecticut, which was in a state of surface navigation, had no reason not to be discovered by the PLA. According to the custom, once a submarine in the surface state of navigation is found in the water area of concern, the relevant forces must be sent to verify. In this way, a lot of "good drama" will happen.
The most likely event is that the process of the "Connecticut" returning to the sea has been under the supervision of THE PLA aircraft and ships. It is even possible that the two sides have even met each other. As a matter of naval practice, if we have been interviewed, we will always ask the other party, "Do you need help?"? The sea area where the "Connecticut" activities are carried back and backwards should also be the sea area where the PLA focuses on surveillance. Violent underwater collisions are bound to cause strong noise. This noise feature is quite obvious, even if it was initially ignored because it was not the noise of ship navigation. But after the discovery of the Connecticut, as long as you search for relevant noise records, you will be able to find the original noise signal. Thus, the exact point and exact time of the collision can be reversed.
Some friends may ask, the sea area where the "Seawolf" class is active, was there our surface ship at that time? If not. Without sonar detection to track this area, how to get noise? As mentioned earlier, the sea area of "Seawolf" level activities must be the sea area we focus on monitoring. Sound monitoring of such seas relies not only on sonar on surface ships. More importantly, it is close to a stationary sonar station in the sea. Most of these stationary sonar stations rely on artificial facilities on islands and reefs or at sea. Because it is a fixed sonar, its sonar transducer can be made very large. For sonar, the larger the transducer base array, the higher the sensitivity. This and the greater the radar power, the stronger the surveillance capability. And fixed sonar also has a major advantage, that is, it is not affected by the noise of the ship's navigation like the ship's sonar. So its detection distance is much farther.
At this point, let's continue to reason. Since it is possible to control and push backwards to the location of the collision event. So survey the collision site, find out the collider of the collision event, and monitor the radiation intensity of the sea near the collision site at the same time, to determine whether there is a radiation leakage after the US submarine accident? All of this should be a matter of course.
One might say that it's all your reasoning and guessing. Yes, it can only be reasoning and guessing. Maybe a little bit of evidence. That is, after the US military announced the collision incident, the spokesperson of our Foreign Ministry spoke out and clearly stated from the beginning that it was in the South China Sea. The previous us officially revealed that the sea area of the event is the Sea of the Indo-Pacific region. Does this alone show that we have long grasped the exact point of the COLLISION accident between the US military and the US military?
Some people may ask, since you know, why don't you publish it? At least shame on Americans. The answer to this is simple, because we also need to keep it secret. Because publishing all this detail has the potential to expose our surveillance capabilities. Besides, having the information of the other party is a resource in itself. Resources should be used in the most critical places to obtain the greatest benefits. And this resource will not be consumed at once just to shame the other party. I believe that now Americans are also guessing, how much does China know about this collision? To what extent is the information mastered? Then let them guess slowly.