China Anti Submarine Warfare Capabilities

[uk 75]

Rather than aircraft carriers I think it is US nuclear submarines that pose the main threat to Chinese seapower, so I was interested in this article:

China Is Improving its anti-Submarine Warfare Capabilities

For now, the United States still retains a significant advantage in undersea warfare, but Washington cannot permit superiority to result in complacency.

nationalinterest.org

The Western powers have been in the ASW business for a long time thanks to Germany,.Japan and the USSR. China can copy a lot of the equipment but it will be harder to catch up on over a century of hunting subs.

 

[GTX]

Not surprised

 

[Volkodav]

This is why China is so against Australia's acquisition of SSNs, they know they will struggle to counter high end subs. If Australia participates in the build of either US or UK types, it can increase the build drum beat of these advanced vessels providing the west as a whole with even greater capacity to ramp up production going forward.

 

[kaiserd]

Not to minimise challenges the PRC will have in building up their airborne ASubW capacity but given the likely very long lead time required for Australia to field their nuclear subs highly likely these subs will be going up against an entirely different order of magnitude of capacity. All while the Collins class subs are rapidly aging.