China's newest nuclear submarine sank in dock, US officials confirm

[turbinetree]

Source: The Guardian

Loss of state-of-the-art vessel in May or June is setback to Chinese push for naval parity with US

Robert Tait in Washington and agencies
Thu 26 Sep 2024 16.40 EDT

China’s efforts to achieve maritime military parity with the US have suffered a serious blow after its newest state-of-the-art nuclear submarine sank in a dock, American officials have confirmed.

The incident happened last May or June at the Wuchang shipyard near Wuhan – the same city where the Covid-19 pandemic is believed to have originated – and came to light, thanks to satellite imagery, despite efforts by the country’s communist authorities to stage a cover-up.

A US defence official told Reuters that the Zhou-class vessel – first of a new kind of Chinese submarines and distinctive for its X-shaped stern that aids manoeuvrability – is believed to have been next to a pier when it sank.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/china-nuclear-submarine-sinks

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. Someone forgot to close a door I guess...

[getagrip_already]

2. next time you steal our designs, remember....

Righty tightie, lefty loosie.

Just because you read from top to bottom doesn't mean you can loosen important fittings rather than tighten them.

[Drum]

3. 👆THREAD WINNER!

[onetexan]

21. 🤣 thx for my laugh of the day 😁👋

[SeattleVet]

4. Aren't they supposed to do that?

Well, more than once, anyway.

[Dem2theMax]

14. . . .

[bigtime]

5. A screen door is great for ventilation

But it didn’t perform as expected in this application, apparently.

[GB_RN]

6. Well, Damn!

I can see the conversation at the dock…

Stevedore: “Uhh, boss? You know that brand new, nuclear submarine that was docked at pier 2?”
Dockmaster: “Yeah, what about it?”
Stevedore: “Well, we have a couple of options. It can now be either an extension of the pier…or…it can be our newest, artificial reef.”
Dockmaster: “What?!?!”
Phone rings
Stevedore: (answers phone) “Uhh, sir? Xi Jinping is on the phone. He wants to know how loading is going for the Zhou’s sea trials. He says he wants it at sea, ASAP.”
(Sound of ripe melon smashing as dockmaster’s head bounces off the deck)

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. Lucky it sank in dry dock and not in sea trials.

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[MLF1981]

8. The Chinese couldn't even build a ball point pen from scratch until 2017.

So this doesn't surprise me at all.

[cloudbase]

9. They must have hacked the tech used on the Titan.

[DENVERPOPS]

11. At any rate

there are probably a bunch of people responsible, and the Chinese Gov't will just "disappear" them, just like they did with all the employees in the lab building that allowed the virus to escape.........

[FakeNoose]

10. Sabotage? Or maybe they stole the wrong plans from Uncle Sam....

Wait ... were those the top-secret plans that Chump took from the White House?

[sakabatou]

12. Was it made from tofu dredge?

[AZLD4Candidate]

13. thinnest paper tiger ever. CCP are pathetic and Winnie the Flu is a piece of shit.

[Brother Buzz]

15. Drain plug Mafia strikes again

[wolfie001]

16. Xinnie the Poo will not be pleased

[Bayard]

17. How embarrassing

[LudwigPastorius]

18. The Chinese can't compete with our covert operatives advanced...

technology.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Was it based on a Russian design?

Those have a nasty habit of sinking.

[JohnnyRingo]

20. Can't they just lie and say they're testing it at depth?

That's what a submarine is supposed to do after all.

[3Hotdogs]

22. Cue Nelson.