This is an emergency episode of my podcast and I invited Bora back to the show to talk about Type 09V submarine.

In my mind, this is possibly the most consequential PLA program of the next decade. Well, this program and the Type 09VI submarine that will likely come along also. This submarine by itself will change the balance of naval warfare globally once it enters service in large quantity in the early 2030s.

Think of a modern Chinese version of Seawolf. That’s what Type 09V is.

And Type 09VI will also be quite the strategic and geopolitical gamechanger because it will be the first non Western SSBN that can get close to CONUS without being tailed. That was never the case for Russian/Soviet SSBNs.

There will be more analysis of Type 09V by myself and others in the future, but I hope this is a good first technical overview online.

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