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Saturday, November 02, 2013

PLA needs at least 20 nuclear submarines, says admiral

Jin class SSBNChina does not need as many nuclear-powered submarines as the United States but it will need at least 20 to defend its maritime interests, according to Rear Admiral Yang Yi of the People's Liberation Army Navy in an article written for the Global Times, a tabloid under the auspices of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily.

Yang said that a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine is by far the most powerful naval weapons system that currently exists. With the world's largest fleet of nuclear submarines during the Cold War, the Soviet Union was able to compete with the United States and its aircraft carriers.

After the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991, Yang said that the United States is now the only maritime superpower with both aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines.

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