https://www.311institute.com/china-shows-off-its-revolutionary-silent-submarine-engine/

In the 1990’s film The Hunt For Red October, by Tom Clancy, Sean Connery plays the role of a Russian Admiral who steals a revolutionary new Soviet submarine that uses a radical new Caterpillar drive, an ultra-quiet engine that uses water pumps and electrical propulsion to elude it’s American foes. And now Chinese state media are reporting that they’re out fitting their latest nuclear submarines with something that sounds strikingly similar.

Earlier this month, Chinese state TV channel CCTV 13 broadcast an interview with a top Chinese naval engineer, Rear Admiral Ma Weiming, who in the past has been credited with leading a variety of Chinese military projects including the development of China’s latest electromagnetic catapults and railguns, and in it he said that the PLAN, the Chinese navy, will be fitting its newest nuclear attack submarines with an all electric “shaftless rim-driven pumpjet” – a revolutionary and silent propulsion system.

If the new engine does find its way onto China’s latest submarines then it’s likely that it’s going to be first installed on their Type 095 nuclear attack submarines (SSN), a couple of which are under construction as we speak, however, as both China, Russia and the US all pursue supersonic and hypersonic submarines it’s not clear if the technology could be translated to those new platforms.