Regarding the "Long March 18" submarine, everyone may not be so familiar with it, so let's focus on this nuclear submarine itself. By looking at relevant information, we can see that the "Long March 18" nuclear submarine is the 094 improved ballistic missile nuclear submarine, and it is the highest-level nuclear submarine in my country so far. Overall, its boat is about 135 meters long and 13 meters wide, with a maximum underwater displacement of 11,000 tons, an underwater submersible speed of 28-30 knots, and a maximum sailing depth of more than 300 meters. The overall performance exceeds the previously equipped Type 092 strategic missile nuclear boat.
It is worth noting that last year, the Southern Theater Command Navy received the 055 destroyer "Dalian Ship" with hull number 105, and the hull number 31 amphibious assault ship
" Hainan Ship ", and was also equipped with the hull number 1 "Long March 18" with hull number 10. And because the crew faced the dock when they were standing on the slope, the obvious turtle back could be seen from the footage of the news at that time. Therefore, through the analysis and judgment of the picture, the outside world believed that this was the 094A strategic missile nuclear submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy. Obviously, external inference is correct.
What you need to know is that "Long March 18" is the 094A model, which is the modified and upgraded version of the 094 model. As a result, the hydropower and turbulence systems have been effectively improved. When submersible underwater, it also greatly reduces noise and greatly improves its survivability in wartime. After all, the enemy's anti-submarine patrol aircraft , anti-submarine helicopter , ship-based and ship-based sonar systems are difficult to explore and lock in the "Long March 18" against the background of marine noise.
As for firepower performance, according to relevant information, the "Long March 18" boat has 12 or 16 ship-based vertical launch devices, which can be used to launch the "Jilang"-2A submarine-launched intercontinental missile with high concealment, great power and strong penetration ability. However, existing news shows that the Long March 18 is able to launch the "Jilang-3" ballistic missile. Everyone is familiar with the "Jilang-3" submarine-launched ballistic missile, after all, its appearance is considered a threat by the United States.
It is worth mentioning that the US military intelligence department previously believed that the range of "Jilang-3" was increased by more than half on the basis of "Jilang"-2. Specifically, the "Julang-3" submarine-launched intercontinental missile has a range of more than 12,000 kilometers and carries a sub-guided nuclear warhead. The thermonuclear warhead CEP launched by it is about 40-50 meters. What is this concept? In other words, if the "Long March 18" strategic nuclear submarine is forward to the first island chain, the "Jilang-3" submarine-launched intercontinental missile launched can fully cover Washington.
What you need to know is that if it is compared to a single sub-guided nuclear warhead of 250,000-300,000 tons, explosion equivalent , no matter whether it is an air explosion or a land-based explosion, buildings within a radius of dozens of miles will no longer exist. No wonder the American Alliance of Think Tank Scientists previously released a report saying that the performance of "Jilang-3" has significantly improved compared with the "Jilang"-2, and is one of the few missiles that can reach the United States. It also emphasized that the power of the "Julang-3" is comparable to that of the Dongfeng-41 intercontinental strategic missile.
We want to say that the US military’s praise also reminds us to reflect on ourselves. It should be noted that there is still a big gap between the scale of the Chinese Navy nuclear submarine force and the United States and Russia. Now there is news that the research and development of the new generation of the Chinese Navy's attack nuclear submarine 095 and strategic missile nuclear submarine 096 has made positive progress. It is also said that the length of the 096 type will increase and the discharge volume will be close to that of the US Navy "Ohio" class strategic nuclear submarine. The most important thing is that some people expect the 096 model to carry at least 16 "Jiulang-3".
