China's military has made significant changes to its submarine fleet operations, leading U.S. analysts to worry what other changes China has made that may have gone unnoticed.
announced the discovery in a little-known report in late November of last year. China maintains a fleet of six nuclear-capable submarines, carrying missiles that could hit the continental United States from the South China Sea.
"We're going to want to have our [nuclear-powered attack submarines] trying to tail them... so the extra demands on our assets are clear," Christopher Twomey of the Naval Postgraduate School in California told Reuters."But the point here is that the information – the near continuous patrols – has changed so rapidly that we don't know what else has changed."
The U.S. and allied navies frequently deploy to the South China Sea, and they will be straining to track China's subs, analysts say.
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