Google Maps Shows Chinese Nuclear Sub Prototype

mytrip writes "An image of what could be one of China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarines is available on the Google Maps and Google Earth satellite-image site, a defense blogger claimed Tuesday. The satellite picture was discovered by Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project for the Federation of American Scientists, and announced Tuesday on his blog. Kristensen believes the picture, taken by the Quickbird satellite late last year, reveals China's new Jin-class, or Type 094, nuclear ballistic missile sub. The new sub class is approximately 35 feet longer than its predecessor, the Xia-class, also known as Type 092, according to two images Kristensen compares on the blog. The Jin-class sub has an extended midsection that houses 12 missile tubes and part of the reactor compartment, Kristensen explains."

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Re:Incorrect

[PitaBred]

But they travel faster than the speed of sound IN WATER. Hence, supersonic. Read the article before you start blathering about things you don't know about.

actually i don't

[circletimessquare]

i am a radical anti-gun nut. i think the 2nd amendment should be repealed. there is no place in civil society for assholes walking around with guns

of course, the mythology of those who believe in the 2nd amendment is that they are saving us from a fascist government

ha!

armed thugs are in fact fodder for any sort of fascist group that would ever threaten the government. fascists love guns. it's the first thing they go for, because the will to power that is the psychological root of fascist thinking is all about controlling your world through physical force. ie, the gun. rather than writing, thought and speech, the first instinct of the level headed citizen of a democracy

this "oh my god we need guns to protect us from the fascists!" is just the sort of hysterical hyberbole of paranoid retards that i abhor

the truth:

when your society is threatened by a policy or law that is not the opinion of the general populace, the civilian's response is to challenge it through democratic change. the fascist's response is to reach for guns and bombs

in other words, the second amendment is a friend of fascism, not an enemy of it