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Forbes: How China Will Try To Unmask U.S. Submarines In The Western Pacific
In mid-July, the latest in a series of classified seminars will be held at the Charles Stark Draper Lab adjacent to MIT’s campus to educate naval personnel and contractors about how to hide U.S. warships from the prying eyes of enemies.
You can’t attend unless you have a secret clearance and a need to know, because methods for masking the telltale “signatures” of American warships are a very touchy subject.
That’s especially true in the case of submarines, which would be of little use in wartime if they could be reliably tracked and targeted.
Submarines are the stealthiest warfighting systems ever devised, and the U.S. Navy aims to keep it that way. Map of East Asia highlighting the first and second island chains.
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WNU Editor: The US Navy has decades of experience in submarine warfare. In contrast, the Chinese are very new to this type of warfare. Bottom-line. The Chinese have a long way to go.