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now Pakistan's defense means China's defense. sub is no longer an issue.
Thats nice. What is China doing to stop the drone attacks in Pakistan's North-western regions?
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now Pakistan's defense means China's defense. sub is no longer an issue.
The Xia is aging however and a new Ballistic Missile Submarine design is in the works for the People's Liberation Army Navy.
For Xia-Class as being "Not Operational. Xia made its world wide debut on April 23rd, 2009 celebrating the 60th anniversary of PLA Navy's founding.
The 092 class are homeported in Jianggezhuang near Qingdao.
This is perhaps the last show for type 092 before the retirement.
for your kind information....Lease a missile boat? No way!
No country has ever allowed another access to its ballistic missile submarines, no matter how close the relationship. An attack boat without cruise missiles is a defensive system, but a missile boat is a strategic offensive strike weapon.
Such a move would make India's already nervous military hawks even more paranoid and might result in dangerous moves on their part. A Xia boat with 12 accurate nuclear missiles would be seen as such a threat to them that they would probably over-react.
I think that the statesmen of the PRC would not risk an Indian over-reaction and enmity to allow this to happen.
This OP article is from a blog and seems to be a fanboy's imagination.
Russia to lease nuclear submarine to India for decade: report
MOSCOW, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Russia will lease a multifunctional nuclear submarine to India for a decade in the second half of this year, the Itar-Tass news agency reported Tuesday, quoting a Russian Defense Ministry official.
The Nerpa nuclear submarine, which successfully concluded tests last December, will be handed over to India this summer or autumn, the unidentified official told Itar-Tass.
The official said Indian crew would come to Russia's military base near the far eastern port of Vladivostok to take the Nerpa on trial. "After the signing of an act of acceptance, the Nerpa will head for India," the source said.
Mikhail Dmitriev, director of the Federal Service of Military and Technical Cooperation, said in December 2008 that Russia might lease a nuclear submarine to India for 10 years.
The Nerpa, one of Russia's newest nuclear-powered submarines, had an accident during trials in the Sea of Japan in November 2008,killing 20 people and injuring 21 others. The submarine passed successfully several rounds of tests and was transferred to the Russian navy on Dec. 28, 2009.
Russia to lease nuclear submarine to India for decade: report_English_Xinhua
But PLAN is waiting for the more dominant type 096, so leasing two 12 SLBMs type 094 to Pakistan isn't a big problem when PLAN has already four 16 SLBMs type 094 and six 24 SLBMs type 096 in service in the near future.
However, i think CCP has more chance to lease type 093 because leasing the SSBN can cause more political sensitivity.
Do any Pakistani member want to buy a submarine that entered service in 1981.

the only solid submarine talk between pak-china have been that of conventional diesel subs, with no sight of u214 procurement.
no matter how close the friendship, lease of SSBN is completely farfetched.
btw , do the members here contemplate the economics of operating a SSBN,
can PN really afford one??
So what? The Type 094-I is still gonna be part of service. That means it can't leave our inventory.
While, our Type 092s are neglected and it should be put to good use.