China’s Type 096: The Next-Gen Ballistic Missile Submarine Threat
For decades, China’s nuclear submarine force was considered the “noisy neighbor” of the undersea world. American sonar operators jokingly referred to them as “underwater drum kits”—easy to find, easy to track, and easy to kill. But those jokes are no longer funny. The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is nearing the completion of its next-generation […]