‘Gate Crashing’: China’s Submarine Force Tests New Waters
Andrew Erickson, Lyle Goldstein, and William Murray, “‘Gate Crashing’: China’s Submarine Force Tests New Waters,” Chinese Military Update, Vol. 2, No. 7 (April 2005), pp. 1-4.
In November 2004, the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Forces (JMSDF) detected and aggressively tracked a submerged Chinese Han-class nuclear submarine that allegedly entered Japan’s territorial waters. This article discusses the incident, and places it into a larger context in which submarine officers are newly ascendant within Beijing’s naval command. The new generation submarines emerging at a quickening pace from Chinese shipyards are also described in some detail.
