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Description
Type: Nuclear-powered attack submarine
Displacement: 8,165 tons surfaced
11,058 tons submerged
Length: 114.9 m
Beam: 10.4 m
Complement: 54
Propulsion: 1 × pressurized water reactor
1 × steam turbine
1 × 418 hp auxiliary motor
1 × pump-jet
Endurance: 116 days
Test depth: 626 m
Speed: 25 knots surfaced
36 knots submerged

The Type 2005 Chenlong-class (Putonghua: 陈龙) is a class of nuclear-powered attack submarines created by Yongsheng Heavy Machinery Industries. Using state-of-the-art technology, it is a highly-sophisticated submarine that features advanced components and was designed to combat enemy warships and submarines, as well as to conduct anti-submarine warfare, anti-ship warfare and maritime patrol duties.
Featuring a compact and integrated hydrodynamically efficient hull for reduced broadband noise, the hull is constructed from low-magnetic materials. Thanks to the submarine’s high degree of automation, the Chenlong-class only requires a crew of 54. The submarine incorporates a double hull system composed of an inner pressure hull and an outer "light" hull, allowing for more freedom in the design of the exterior hull shape and resulting in a submarine with large reserve buoyancy. The submarine is armed with four 533mm torpedo tubes, with each capable of launching an anti-ship missile. Equipped with a spherical sonar, the advanced sonar system of the Chenlong-class consists of a spherical bow array, flank arrays and a towed array.
The first Type 2005 Chenlong-class nuclear-powered attack submarine was built in early 2005 and commissioned on August 9, 2007.

Photo courtesy of original author. I do NOT own this image.

Description
Type: Nuclear-powered attack submarine
Displacement: 8,165 tons surfaced
11,058 tons submerged
Length: 114.9 m
Beam: 10.4 m
Complement: 54
Propulsion: 1 × pressurized water reactor
1 × steam turbine
1 × 418 hp auxiliary motor
1 × pump-jet
Endurance: 116 days
Test depth: 626 m
Speed: 25 knots surfaced
36 knots submerged

The Type 2005 Chenlong-class (Putonghua: 陈龙) is a class of nuclear-powered attack submarines created by Yongsheng Heavy Machinery Industries. Using state-of-the-art technology, it is a highly-sophisticated submarine that features advanced components and was designed to combat enemy warships and submarines, as well as to conduct anti-submarine warfare, anti-ship warfare and maritime patrol duties.
Featuring a compact and integrated hydrodynamically efficient hull for reduced broadband noise, the hull is constructed from low-magnetic materials. Thanks to the submarine’s high degree of automation, the Chenlong-class only requires a crew of 54. The submarine incorporates a double hull system composed of an inner pressure hull and an outer "light" hull, allowing for more freedom in the design of the exterior hull shape and resulting in a submarine with large reserve buoyancy. The submarine is armed with four 533mm torpedo tubes, with each capable of launching an anti-ship missile. Equipped with a spherical sonar, the advanced sonar system of the Chenlong-class consists of a spherical bow array, flank arrays and a towed array.
The first Type 2005 Chenlong-class nuclear-powered attack submarine was built in early 2005 and commissioned on August 9, 2007.

Photo courtesy of original author. I do NOT own this image.