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https://indiandefencereview.com/chinese-deploys-42-ships-to-prepare-submarine-war-against-us-navy/The US Navy has spent decades dominating the world's oceans from above and below. But a newly uncovered network of 42 Chinese ships suggests that advantage is quietly disappearing.
In October 2024, a Chinese research vessel named Dong Fang Hong 3 paused its scientific work to check on a set of powerful ocean sensors east of Japan. The sensors were capable of detecting underwater objects. Eight months later, in May 2025, the same ship returned to the exact location.
This was not a one-off event. It was a small piece of a vast, coordinated campaign documented by Reuters in March 2026. According to that investigation, China has deployed at least 42 research vessels and hundreds of seabed sensors across the Pacific, Indian, and Arctic oceans.
The official mission is climate science and mineral exploration. But naval experts who reviewed Reuters’ findings say the real objective is preparing for submarine warfare against the United States and its allies.
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China is mapping the ocean floor as it prepares for submarine warfare with the UShttps://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-is-mapping-ocean-floor-it-prepares-submarine-warfare-with-us-2026-03-24/China is conducting a vast undersea mapping and monitoring operation across the Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans, building detailed knowledge of marine conditions that naval experts say would be crucial for waging submarine warfare against the United States and its allies.
In one example, the Dong Fang Hong 3, a research vessel operated by Ocean University of China, spent 2024 and 2025 sailing back and forth in the seas near Taiwan and the U.S. stronghold of Guam, and around strategic stretches of the Indian Ocean, ship-tracking data reviewed by Reuters shows. In October 2024, it checked on a set of powerful Chinese ocean sensors capable of identifying undersea objects near Japan, according to Ocean University, and visited the same area again last May. And in March 2025, it criss-crossed the waters between Sri Lanka and Indonesia, covering approaches to the Malacca Strait, a critical chokepoint for maritime commerce.
According to the university, the ship was carrying out mud surveys and climate research. But a scientific paper co-written by Ocean University academics shows it has also conducted extensive deep-sea mapping. Naval-warfare experts and U.S. Navy officials say the type of deep-sea data being collected by the Dong Fang Hong 3 – via mapping and placement of sensors in the ocean – is giving China a picture of the subsea conditions it would need to deploy its submarines more effectively and hunt down those of its adversaries.
The Dong Fang Hong 3 isn’t operating alone. It is part of a broader ocean mapping and monitoring operation involving dozens of research vessels and hundreds of sensors. In tracing this effort, Reuters examined Chinese government and university records, including journal articles and scientific studies, and analyzed more than five years of movement by 42 research vessels active in the Pacific, Indian or Arctic oceans using a ship-tracking platform built by New Zealand company Starboard Maritime Intelligence.
While the research has civilian purposes – some of the surveying covers fishing grounds or areas where China has mineral prospecting contracts – it also serves a military one, according to nine naval-warfare experts who reviewed Reuters’ findings.
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