Video Catches Rare Glimpse of China’s Silent Killer Submarine

Fishermen in eastern China were offered a rare glimpse of one of the country’s newly upgraded submarines, which was captured on camera on Wednesday while heading out to sea for a suspected training exercise. The Type 039C, the latest redesign of what the Pentagon calls the Yuan class of Chinese navy boats, was seen steaming ahead on the surface of the water in a video shared to the Chinese social media website Weibo by a user based in China’s coastal province of Zhejiang. Beijing now has the world’s largest navy in terms of hull count, and China continues to launch…