Son, one of your subs just recently got blowed up. That is how "good" you are. A nation who couldnt even save their own sailors. I dont recall ny chinese sub accident in the past decade.
Your memory is short and failing.
So just to jog it a bit:
Chinese submarine 361
Career (China)
Name:
No. 361
Fate:
Lost 16 April 2003
General characteristics
Class & type:
Ming-class submarine
Displacement:
1,584 tonnes (1,559
long tons) surfaced
2,113 tonnes (2,080 long tons) submerged
Length:
76 m (249 ft 4 in)
Beam:
7.6 m (24 ft 11 in)
Draft:
5.1 m (16 ft 9 in)
Propulsion:
2 × Shaanxi 6E 390 ZC1 diesels rated at 5,200 hp (3.82 MW)
2 × Xiangtan alternators
2 shafts
Speed:
15
knots (28 km/h) surfaced
18 knots (33 km/h) submerged
Complement:
55 (9 officers)
Armament:
6 × bow torpedo tubes
2 × stern torpedo tubes
The submarine hull number
No. 361 with name
Great Wall # 61 (长城61号) is a
ChinesePeople's Liberation Army Navy Type-035AIP (ES5E variant) (NATO reporting name
Ming III) conventional diesel/electric
submarine. It was reported to have suffered an accident killing all on board in 2003 while at the
Bo Hai Sea between
North Korea and eastern
Shandong Province of China.
No. 361 was part of the 12th Brigade of the North Sea (
Bo Hei) Fleet of the PLAN based at
Lu Shun (formerly Port Arthur) in the Liao Ning Province.
The loss of the crew of submarine No. 361 is the worst declared peacetime military disaster in the history of the People's Republic of China.
Ming class
The Ming class of Chinese submarines are an adaptation of the diesel/electric
Romeo class submarine built in the
Soviet Union, which are based on the
German Type XXI submarine of
World War II.
The
Central Military Commission ordered the building of the Ming class submarines in 1967 as
Project 035. The construction of the first began during October, 1969 at Wuhan Shipyard. The last boat was built in 2002. A total of 20 boats were built, of which 17 are left, and most serve in the North Sea Fleet. No. 361 serving the East Sea Fleet was the thirteenth and was built in 1995 making it one of the newest in the fleet.
CNN reports that China is increasing training and exercises of its submarines in the east to carry out a policy of "sea denial" to try counter the powerful U.S. Pacific fleet
[1]. The location of the incident (see below), the Bo Hei Sea is very strategic for China. It is the closest sea outlet to
Beijing, and one of the busiest sea routes in the world.
Incident
According to the official Chinese news agency,
Xinhua, the submarine was taking part in exercises east of Neichangshan islands in the Bo Hai Sea (渤海) of Northeastern China.
[2]. The captain of the boat was (Naval) Senior Colonel (equivalent of a
commodore) Cheng Fuming (程福明). Among the 70-member crew, 13 of them were not part of the original crew, but instead, trainees and cadres from the naval academy.
On April 16, 2003, all 70 crew members of the submarine were killed when the diesel engine failed to shut down when the boat submerged and used up all the oxygen in the boat.
According to Xinhua on May 2, 2003, the crippled boat was discovered by Chinese fishermen on April 25, 2003, when they noticed the periscope sticking out. The submarine was then towed initially to Yulin on Hainan Island, and later towed back to the northeast seaport of
Dalian. The submarine was drifting for ten days because it was on a silent, no-contact drill.