PLA said to have built world's largest conventional submarine

[Wxman]

PLA said to have built world's largest conventional submarine (http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20130724000140&cid=1101&MainCatID=11)
Staff Reporter 2013-07-24 16:50 (GMT+8)

Military Photos.net, a website dedicated to global military development based in the United States, has published photos to suggest that China's PLA Navy has recently constructed the world's largest conventional submarine.

The submarine shown in the photo is claimed to be a Type 032 Qing-class test submarine, designed as a new diesel-electric ballistic missile submarine to replace the older Golf-class submarines. With a submerged displacement of 6,628 tonnes, the Qing-class is currently the largest diesel-electric submarine in the world. The development of the submarine began in 2005 and was completed in 2010. It entered service with the PLA Navy on Oct. 16 last year and is ready to conduct weapons tests this year...

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http://www.wantchinatimes.com/newsphoto/2013-07-24/450/type032-152418_copy1.jpg (http://www.fyjs.cn/bbs/attachments/Mon_1307/25_110323_819650c7165e744.jpg)

[Wxman]

The Kursk:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jNzrcnMY548/Tfpu2N8WmFI/AAAAAAAAP7Q/w7iyCBFz66Y/s1600/El+hundimiento+del+Kursk.jpg

and the Surcouf

http://www.avalanchepress.com/Surcouf_files/G-CSM-surcouf.jpg

For comparison purposes. The latter comes in at a mere 3,304 tons; there must be a lot of that PLA boat below the waterline, eh?

[Oberon]

Either that or they did it like the Spanish and built it out of concrete...

http://o.canada.com/2013/06/06/spain-builds-submarine-70-tons-too-heavy/

[Wxman]

OMG!

I thought something similiar happen with one of the space probes. They're on final approach and somebody raises the qwexion if the units are feet or meters. The probe had perfectly accurate scalar velocity just that the units were meters instead of feet. Guess that splains the prollems we had during mid-course correction and why so much MORE fuel was used than what was calculated.