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China’s Homegrown New Type 095, 095A Attack Nuclear Submarines
Posted: August 16, 2016 | Author: chankaiyee2
China’s new homegrown Type 095/095A attack nuclear submarine. mil.huanqiu.com photo. The same below.
China’s official military forum mil.huanqiu.com says in its report yesterday that Type 095 and 095A are China’s third-generation attack nuclear submarines. They have been developed by reference to Western design and have a single hull shell with small sound reflection area.
The following are their basic data:
Length: 115 m
Beam: 12 m
Draft: 11 m
Displacement: 7,900 tons
Operational diving depth: 250 m
Maximum diving depth: 500 m
Maximum underwater speed: 32 knots
Endurance: 80 days
Crew: 130
Their Armament:
8 533 mm torpedo tubes, capable of launching China’s homegrown conventional torpedoes and supercavitation speed torpedoes
Submarine-launched YJ-83 antiship missiles
6 connected submarine-launched Haihongqi-10 short-range air defence missile for shooting down antisubmarine helicopters.
Special for improved version Type 095A submarine: 16 VSL for submarine-launch of CJ-10 cruise missiles for precisiong ground attack
They are installed with China’s new reactor that needs no replacement of nuclear fuel or core during their entire service life. They use new-type single axis pump for water jet propulsion with significantly low noise between 100 and 110 dB.
Their sonar system contains a ball-shaped sonar array in theirow, multiple-line array noise distance measuring sonars by their sides and a seabed scan sonar below their bow.
Source: mil.huanqiu.com “Get some idea in advance of the excellence of China’s Type 095A nuclear submarine” (summary by Chan Kai Yee based on the report in Chinese)
This is the Type 093B.