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Google Maps Shows Chinese Nuclear Sub Prototype

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the pants-meet-ankles dept.

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."

8 of 339 comments (clear)

  1. Well... by epiphani · · Score: 5, Funny

    The have the Xia and the Jin class submarines. As long as they don't go Super-XiaJin, we should be ok. /who needs karma..

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  2. Chinese submarines by Lucas123 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So is it true that they have screen doors?

  3. the cold war.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    having google maps during the cuban missle crisis or the cold war would've been bad ass...

    "dude....call JFK...I think I see a launcher!"

    *goes back to playing pong*

  4. Re:How much do you want to bet... by halivar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Parent is correct. The cost of the 9mm round is distributed amongst all the proletariat.

    *ducks* *runs*

  5. If you look really close... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can see the sailors running around on deck, almost like they're having a fire drill.

  6. Re:Wrong again by modecx · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet if heard underwater, that comment would sound something like "Zing!"

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  7. Re:Incorrect by Phisbut · · Score: 5, Funny

    and last time I checked, 0.3>0.33>1.

    Then I suggest you check again, because over here, 0.3<0.33<1

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  8. Re:Classified? by DataBroker · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's way way better than Google Maps, but you can't identify a face that only takes up 4 "pixels".

    You, good sir, need to buy a clue! I know better, I've seen CSI!!! Don't you know that they're able to zoom-in, enhance, zoom-in, enhance, and zoom-in, enhance anything? They're able to zoom in (and enhance) on the inverted reflection on the concave of a spoon, which is on a reflection of someone's sunglasses, who is in near-total darkness, and underwater. I've heard they're almost able to do facial biometrics and genetic tests from that same picture!

    Surely if they can do that, they can zoom-in enough to recognize people from a high-tech satellite!