Modern Chinese Submarines: Kilo, Song, Yuan, Han, Shang, and Jin Classes, Diesel-Electric, Nuclear-Attack, and Ballistic-Missile PLA Navy Boats in the ... (Submarines of the World Book 3)

In barely three decades China built the fastest-growing submarine force in generations-and this is the book that takes you inside it.From the coastal relics of 1990 to the New Great Power Competition, Modern Chinese Submarines is an unprecedented deep dive into the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) undersea force-its diesel-electric attack boats, its nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs), and its ballistic-missile submarines (SSBNs). It is the story of how a fleet that the American and Soviet navies could hear coming from half an ocean away fell silent, slipped its coastal moorings, and rose from a brown-water coastal force into a true blue-water navy-driven by Xi Jinping's push for a world-class navy by 2035-to challenge the most powerful navy on Earth in the waters off Taiwan and across the Indo-Pacific.Each chapter fuses rigorous technical analysis with gripping real-world history: the diesel boat that surfaced undetected inside the escort screen of USS Kitty Hawk in 2006, the deafening nuclear boat run down off the same carrier in 1994, the Ming 361 disaster that asphyxiated all seventy men aboard, the brand-new submarine that sank at its own pier in 2024, the cyber-theft and the seabed "Underwater Great Wall," and the JL-3 missiles now bringing the American mainland into range. Whether you are a military history enthusiast, a defense analyst, or simply fascinated by the machines that haunt the dark depths, this book delivers.Inside this book, you'll discover:The Romeo & Ming Inheritance (Type 033/035) - Mao's coastal fleet of Soviet copies, the legacy diesel boats China built long after the world moved on, and the 1995–96 Taiwan Strait humiliation that lit the fuse of modernization.The Kilo Class (Project 877/636) - Russia's "black hole," the cash-for-stealth lifeline from Moscow's bankrupt 1990s shipyards, and the Club-S missile that gave China its first genuine anti-ship reach.The Song & Yuan Classes (Type 039/039A) - China's first modern home-built boats and the air-independent Yuan that can lurk submerged for weeks-plus the Song that humiliated a US carrier in 2006.The Han & Shang Classes (Type 091/093) - From the deafening first-generation nuclear boat trailed off a US carrier to the modern hunter-killer firing YJ-18 cruise missiles from vertical-launch tubes.The Xia & Jin Classes (Type 092/094) - China's sea-based nuclear deterrent: the troubled first SSBN, the Jin boats now on patrol, and the JL-2 and JL-3 missiles that range Guam, Hawaii, and beyond.A2/AD & the Taiwan Scenario - Anti-access/area-denial doctrine, the submarine as counter-intervention spearhead, the YJ-18 and the DF-21D "carrier-killer," and the island-chain geography of a Pacific war.Disasters, Stealth & Survival - The Ming 361 tragedy, the "Submarine 372" near-catastrophe, the 2024 pierside sinking, anechoic coatings, pump-jet propulsion, anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and the "Underwater Great Wall."The Future of the Force - The third-generation Type 095 (Sui) launched at Huludao in 2026, the Type 096 (Tang) SSBN, extra-large underwater drones, and the 2049 ambition to overtake the US Navy in hull numbers.Packed with technical specifications, fast facts, and historical context, this volume puts the reader in the control room.Perfect for readers of The Hunt for Red October and Blind Man's Bluff - and for anyone drawn to Cold War history, naval strategy, sea power, the South China Sea, and the new undersea arms race across the Indo-Pacific.Scroll up and grab your copy today to dive into the silent, deadly world of China's submarine force. Read more