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The Type 093B should be competitive enough against the Virginia as it is. And it is meant to be replaced by the next generation Type 095 eventually. Which will be a whole new hull type.
The Type 093B seems to be an intermediate design where they are testing all their latest kit in terms of power plant, propulsion scheme, VLS cells, likely also sensors, and electronics. Before they make the new 095 hull with those systems in it.
The Virginia is just a low cost mass produced version of the Seawolf. So I don't know why people think it's home kind of hot shit. The only thing it has is numbers.
The US has 23 Virginia class submarines, 3 Seawolf class, and 24 Los Angeles class.
The Los Angeles class submarines will be headed for the scrap yard soon. And the Chinese will be able to build SSNs faster than the US once they ramped up their facilities. They will likely surpass the US Navy in SSN capacity around the late 2030s.
The Type 093B seems to be an intermediate design where they are testing all their latest kit in terms of power plant, propulsion scheme, VLS cells, likely also sensors, and electronics. Before they make the new 095 hull with those systems in it.
The Virginia is just a low cost mass produced version of the Seawolf. So I don't know why people think it's home kind of hot shit. The only thing it has is numbers.
The US has 23 Virginia class submarines, 3 Seawolf class, and 24 Los Angeles class.
The Los Angeles class submarines will be headed for the scrap yard soon. And the Chinese will be able to build SSNs faster than the US once they ramped up their facilities. They will likely surpass the US Navy in SSN capacity around the late 2030s.
