Ghost of a flea

60 is a bit low as a grand total and a bit misleading, Herr Grandmaster Flea. From the OB I've got on hand they've only 13 SSN out of sixtyish total hulls, that moves up to 20 if you have them using their boomers, for which there's doubt if the navalised version of the DF works as they've never really performed a true deternece patrol with these boats, in conjunction with their SSN.

They've 20 or so Kilo boats, for those who don't follow this topic the Kilo is a very quiet conventional sub, which I'm not sure has the range to make much trouble for the JNSDF, depending on what scenarios we're talking about of course.

So, we're looking at about 20-40 subs with the range and stealth to be threats. The rest of the PLAN sub fleet are old knackered hulls like Ming, Romeo, and the like. Things that're loud as hell by today's standards and are older than I am(30+).

In a scenario where JNSDF is playing defense those numbers don't approach the golden 3:1 an attacker needs to have success attainable(and that's using Dupuy's concept of capabilities+#of platforms instead of only number of platforms, the JNSDF subs are pretty good.).

But that's me.