China’s new Jin-class ballistic missile submarine is noisier than the Russian Delta III-class submarines built more than 30 years ago, according to a report produced by the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) (pdf).
The report The People’s Liberation Army Navy: A Modern Navy With Chinese Characteristics (pdf), which was first posted on the FAS Secrecy News Blog and has since been removed from the ONI web site, is to my knowledge the first official description made public of Chinese and Russian modern nuclear submarine noise levels.
The report The People’s Liberation Army Navy: A Modern Navy With Chinese Characteristics (pdf), which was first posted on the FAS Secrecy News Blog and has since been removed from the ONI web site, is to my knowledge the first official description made public of Chinese and Russian modern nuclear submarine noise levels.
http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/11/subnoise.php
