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To: TobagoJack who wrote (126358)12/17/2016 2:11:35 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 217541
 
The drones are 3-D mapping the terrain of the sea bed West of the Philippines.

The updated 3D maps, when uploaded into military ships, make it extremely easy to find things which are new and shouldn't be there - like one of the 70 Chinese Naval submarines.

The new Chinese 93-B nuclear submarine is far quieter than the 93 (093), and the coming 95 is expected to quieter still. en.wikipedia.org So tracking new Chinese submarines will rely less on direction finding the noise they generate and rely more on sonar detection which requires an accurate 3D map of the background seabed to spot the subs.

The US Navy began mapping the seabed decades ago to be able to more easily spot Russian submarines, but this area of seabed has become more important with the 93-B.

The drones are nothing special the Chinese can't also purchase on the open market. When the Chinese military downloads the information, it will merely reveal what area of the seabed the drone had been mapping, along with the data collected. That area will simply be mapped by another drone.

The area where this took place is much too far from China to think the drone had mapped the seabed of Chinese territorial waters, although I'd have to assume that's done as well.

It's also reasonable to assume the seabed in the region has a large number of long-lived passive listening devices to track submarines, some of them Americans and some of them Chinese.
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