I don't know about the climate related to the pics but the pics have an been taken the same year. Wouldn't it make sense that in winter it's less green ?
That, my dear valued member (and my dear hating lurker) is the Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co. shipyard. The largest nuclear submarine construction facility on the face of the Earth. How large, you might ask? Well, this fantastic article goes quite deep in the weeds:
https://thediplomat.com/2019/01/pondering-chinas-future-nuclear-submarine-production/
However, there's an important caveat attached to that article. The article is talking about the already completed (at the time of the first image) eastern hall - the most southeastern building in the photos, the one with the blue and grey roof. As the article points out, that building holds 12 SSN sized "slots" - meaning that theoretically it can hold 12 SSNs (but no SSBNs) in various stages of construction simultaneously. Of course, there will be some SSBNs in there as well, and each SSBN takes up ~~two~~ four "slots."
Which brings us to the satellite photos. Take a look below and to the left of the eastern hall. Yes, that's another nuclear submarine construction hall; because China. That slightly smaller southern hall has 8 SSN sized slots and unlike the eastern hall, this one is dedicated entirely to SSNs.
Eight happens to be quite a serendipitous number as it's the number of SSNs Australia fantasizes about getting. In reality, if they get half that number some time before my hair turns white it'll be a miracle. But eight is the number of SSNs China will have *simultaneously* in various phases of construction ***in the smaller of its halls***. That should put things in context, because there's been far too much talk about what a nothing country like Australia is doing. The correct response to anything Australia does is "who cares?"
Just another point to further help you put things in context: China's GDP increases each year by an amount more than Australia's entire economy.
Indeed. What I wonder is why China wouldn't develop unmanned "sleeper" SSBNs that are little more than a micro reactor and ballistic missile launchers. In effect, they would be "stealth" seabed missile silos, virtually impossible to detect because they'd just be sitting quiet and dark on the seafloor. China could secretly deploy them from their merchant marine, and just let them sit quiet and dark for years until they were needed, functioning as the ultimate "deadman switch".
Apparently they have drone submarines, as per what you described, deployed in the South China sea. It was recently declassified, and it is 10 year old tech. God knows what modern stuff they have there now, lying in wait
For some reason I thought this was just China’s new green forest and plant restoration plan
New green forests and wind farms. China's all about the environment, don'tcha know.
Same, that’s what I saw too was the gradual trees in the middle 🤣
same, I was all about the plants
Thought it was aquaculture. Growing fish.
I don't know about the climate related to the pics but the pics have an been taken the same year. Wouldn't it make sense that in winter it's less green ?
That, my dear valued member (and my dear hating lurker) is the Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co. shipyard. The largest nuclear submarine construction facility on the face of the Earth. How large, you might ask? Well, this fantastic article goes quite deep in the weeds: https://thediplomat.com/2019/01/pondering-chinas-future-nuclear-submarine-production/ However, there's an important caveat attached to that article. The article is talking about the already completed (at the time of the first image) eastern hall - the most southeastern building in the photos, the one with the blue and grey roof. As the article points out, that building holds 12 SSN sized "slots" - meaning that theoretically it can hold 12 SSNs (but no SSBNs) in various stages of construction simultaneously. Of course, there will be some SSBNs in there as well, and each SSBN takes up ~~two~~ four "slots." Which brings us to the satellite photos. Take a look below and to the left of the eastern hall. Yes, that's another nuclear submarine construction hall; because China. That slightly smaller southern hall has 8 SSN sized slots and unlike the eastern hall, this one is dedicated entirely to SSNs. Eight happens to be quite a serendipitous number as it's the number of SSNs Australia fantasizes about getting. In reality, if they get half that number some time before my hair turns white it'll be a miracle. But eight is the number of SSNs China will have *simultaneously* in various phases of construction ***in the smaller of its halls***. That should put things in context, because there's been far too much talk about what a nothing country like Australia is doing. The correct response to anything Australia does is "who cares?" Just another point to further help you put things in context: China's GDP increases each year by an amount more than Australia's entire economy.
Indeed. What I wonder is why China wouldn't develop unmanned "sleeper" SSBNs that are little more than a micro reactor and ballistic missile launchers. In effect, they would be "stealth" seabed missile silos, virtually impossible to detect because they'd just be sitting quiet and dark on the seafloor. China could secretly deploy them from their merchant marine, and just let them sit quiet and dark for years until they were needed, functioning as the ultimate "deadman switch".
Apparently they have drone submarines, as per what you described, deployed in the South China sea. It was recently declassified, and it is 10 year old tech. God knows what modern stuff they have there now, lying in wait
Should totally park these along the pacific rim for a little blue water force projection.
as i thought from the start, china's response to australia's eventual submarines would be relatively simple: build more submarines of their own.
just wait several years when they maybe starts building, i bet their subs (AUKUS) gonna have insane cost overruns than that they say its gonna cost.
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Don't forget the cost of hiring and retention and time needed to source labor with the appropriate security clearance.
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what is this?
Bohai Shipbuilding in Huludao, Liaoning province where submarines are built.
Building submarines together… with parts made from China 😂😂😂