S8 Ep640: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY: Rick Fisher details China’s mapping of the South China Sea floor to deploy undersea sensors and sonar networks designed to track and target American submarines with land-based supercomputers and anti-submarine aircraft. (2)
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
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1904 IMPERIAL JAPANESE FLEET
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Rick Fisher, about the report that China is mapping the bottom of the sea, especially in East Asia, the South China Sea. Why? What advantage? What risk? Here, Rick is to explain. The mapping has been going on, will continue to go on. |
| 0:21.9 | Much more of this tonight. China's submarine ambitions. |
| 0:27.3 | And indeed, the South China Sea in particular is full of such obstacles. |
| 0:37.3 | And the Chinese dearly want to dominate in that theater. |
| 0:42.0 | So they have been concentrating on surveying that area. |
| 0:46.7 | And also for over a decade, China has been marketing networks of undersea sensors, |
| 0:54.1 | moored sonars with cables that lead to supercomputers on |
| 0:58.6 | land so that they can very finely process signals in the vast, very deep oceans to localize, |
| 1:09.2 | find American submarines so they can be attacked from the air, from China's |
| 1:14.3 | growing fleet of anti-submarine warfare aircraft. |
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