May 2, 2008 at 8:39 pm
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,grossbild-1167702-551194,00.html
Enough space for CVs too. More details at Janes.
By: Arabella-Cox - 5th May 2008 at 20:28
That’s a nuke wisely spent right there.
Looks like a scene from a James Bond movie.
I think Hainan Island has a Club Med resort. Probably with a lot of European tourists.
It also host the Miss World beauty pageant as well.
It’s better to send in Agent 007.
By: SOC - 3rd May 2008 at 05:20
Nice of them to catch on. Loot at what I wrote on my blog last December:
“Yulin
Yulin is the latest naval facility to be associated with the PLAN’s SSBN force. In December of 2007 images appeard on the internet of a Jin-class SSBN pierside at the Yulin submarine facility. Until this point Yulin had never been visited by nor been the home port to a Chinese SSBN. While it is possible that this represents a port of call by a new Type 094 SSBN making a long-distance sortie in Chinese waters, it is also possible that the vessel sighted there will now call Yulin home, giving China two separate operational SSBN port facilities, with both the North Sea Fleet and the South Sea Fleet having an SSBN contingent.”
😀
By: broncho - 3rd May 2008 at 01:26
I don;t see why there is a fuss? Its in chinese territory and its just another base. If US is that worried just lease the cam rahn bay once again.:D
By: Nicolas10 - 3rd May 2008 at 01:20
That’s a nuke wisely spent right there.