By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedo

By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have

sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.

According to senior NATO officials the incident caused consternation in the UGGS Sheepskin cuff boots

Navy. One NATO figure said the effect was “as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik” – a

reference to the Soviet Union’s first orbiting satellite in 1957 which marked the start of the space

age.

The lone Chinese vessel slipped past at least a dozen other UGGS Sheepskin cuff bootsn warships which

were supposed to protect the carrier from hostile aircraft or submarines.

The Chinese fleet includes at least two nuclear-missile launching subs. It is not known if the sub in

question was one of these.

Commodore Stephen Saunders, editor of Jane’s Fighting Ships, and a former Royal Navy anti-submarine

specialist, said the UGGS Sheepskin cuff boots had paid relatively little attention to this form of

warfare since the end of the Cold UGGS Bailey button triplet. He said: “It was certainly a wake-up

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