Very preliminary and unconfirmed at this point but… Reports suggest all crew died.
https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status/1693742634244710455
Reports that a #Chinese Navy (PLAN) submarine, apparently a nuclear powered Type-093 Shang Class boat, has suffered a serious accident in the vicinity of the Taiwan Strait
This is currently unconfirmed, treat with great caution. Been hearing it for a few hours
And to think they’re a people known for their driving skills …
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHINESE SUBMARINE T-093:
It was in an accident off the coast of Lianyungang… on the way to the Taiwan Strait.
All members of the boat passed away, including 7 trainees.
-Xi Jinping is asking the military to quickly investigate
https://twitter.com/RoyalIntel_/status/1693758869934158068
To clarify, the accident that occurred to a nuclear powered submarine, type-093 occurred off the coast of Lianyungang, in the Yellow Sea.
It was on a military mission towards the Taiwan Strait.
All crew members died.
Military investigating
Aw, shucks.
Still very much unconfirmed at this point but the folks on flightradar24 are showing two Taiwanese P-3 Orions headed north into the area between the straits and the Yellow Sea.
Specs on the relevant POS Commie sewerpipe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_093_submarine
Too bad it wasn’t one of their boomers.
Any plans to send a few US subs as aid?
That’s a pretty large sub by SSN standards (6096 tons). Not some rinky-dink third world sub. Maybe it is in quality, but not in size.
So… accident or “accident”?? J/k, betting on the former, but there were one or two alleged secret sub wars in the Cold War.
Even if just an ordinary accident - will CCP falsely blame it on US or Taiwan to exploit for the coming war?
That was my first thought too…
IIR it’s their attempt at somethin equivalent to a Flight I Los Angeles class. (RIP USS Dallas…)
China’s economy is in total collapse. There young unemployment rate has skyrocketed and their primary economic market, real estate is in its death throes.
What does a country in dire economic conditions do to get out of it? War.
On a side note, State just ordered all US citizens to evacuate Belarus.
https://news.yahoo.com/us-citizens-urged-leave-belarus-001917408.html
Could this be connected?
We are currently at Defcon 3.
Russia, China, Japan, Korea and Belarus are all contributing factors. We’ve been at 3 a few times in the last couple decades.
The specific thing with Belarus follows a travel advisory issued Aug, 21.
MOSCOW - Russia issued a warning that any attack on Belarus will be treated as an attack on Russia, after which the United States issued a Do Not Travel alert for Belarus, citing Belarusian authorities’ continued facilitation of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Russian ambassador to Belarus said that if Belarus is attacked, Russia will respond “with all our weaponry,” leading Russian state media to report that the comment hints “at the option of a nuclear strike” as a possible response.
The Do Not Travel alert added that the travel alert was issued “due to the buildup of Russian military forces in Belarus, the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, the potential of civil unrest, the risk of detention, and the Embassy’s limited ability to assist U.S. citizens residing in or traveling to Belarus”.
“U.S. citizens in Belarus should depart immediately. Consider departing via the remaining border crossings with Lithuania and Latvia, or by plane. U.S. citizens are not permitted to enter Poland overland from Belarus. Do not travel to Russia or to Ukraine,” the State Department travel alert added.
Looks like it might of been a false alarm.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/08/22/2003805127
Darn. News of one more enemy boat on the bottom is always welcome.
Which means it’s true…wonder when the prop will be built to cover this up…
I am always split on something like this. I think of all the grieving families. But then I think of one less threat to us. So…happy for the families, but disappointed for us?
Which Tom Clancy novel is this?
That commie turd-tube doesn’t deserve to rest in the same waters as USS Tang.
I think about the submariners lost who trusted their gov to send them to sea in a well built boat.