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Why the U.S. Navy Shouldn't Fear China's 'Hunt for Red October' Missile Submarines

James Holmes

Word has it that China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) has staged a breakthrough in submarine propulsion. At any rate, that’s the word from marine engineer Rear Admiral Ma Weiming, a specialist in electromagnetic systems. Admiral Ma recently reported on state-run CCTV that shipwrights are installing shaftless rim-driven pumpjets in China’s “next-generation nuclear submarines,” meaning attack or ballistic-missile boats. (Click here for a layman’s description of pumpjet technology.) Ma crowed that Chinese engineers are “now way ahead of the United States, which has also been developing similar technology.”

Source URL (retrieved on July 24, 2017): http://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-the-us-navy-shouldnt-fear-chinas-hunt-red-october-21630?page=show