Jin Class Submarine Spotted Near Dalian (Again)

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Hans M. Kristensen, Jin SSBN Flashes its Tubes. FAS Strategic Security Project, Mar. 2, 1020 (blog).
http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/03/jinflash.php

My comment:
(a) What the author meant is thh pair of white, round pearls in the mid-section of the submarine.
(b) Xiaopingdao (大连市甘井子区)小平岛
Jianggezhuang (青岛市崂山区)姜哥庄
(c) Please also read
(i) a previous blog (link-provided) by the same author
(ii) The two comments from readers


--------------Separately
(1) Investigating underwater waves. BBC (English), Mar. 5, 2010.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8546032.stm
(The internal waves "can also interfere with submarine navigation")

(2) John Pomfret, Australia's old ties with U.S. deepened in the past decade. Washington Post, Feb. 14, 2010.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/13/AR2010021303460.html?hpid=topnews

My comment:
(a) The report stated the (George W.) Bush administration "provided Australia's navy with equipment to make its submarines run quieter."
(b) Royal Australian Navy has only six Collins class submarines at a facility at Rockingham, Western Australia (near Perth).

Collins class submarine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_class_submarine
(Australian-built, diesel-electric; took its name from Australian Vice Admiral John Augustine Collins; due to technological difficulties, the lead ship Collins was not approved for operational deployments until 2000)

* David Weber, Collins class submarine noise problems solved? Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Apr. 14, 2000.
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s119023.htm
("Now, the noise problem in the Collins Class Submarine, the butt of jokes from just about every comedian in the country, may have been solved. It's been likened to an underwater washing machine")


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