潜艇是中国海军战略的主要部分。中国专家警告说，美国的水下传感器是对这些潜艇的主要威胁，其中一些人的解放军海军或计划，官员们正在倡导在战争时期进行系统的尝试摧毁美国海底传感器网络的尝试。 This includes destroying, sabotaging or spoofing underwater microphones using a variety of countermeasures, from undersea drones to China’s huge fleet of commercial fishing vessels.Chinese experts believe that “the U.S. undersea surveillance system suffers from a number of vulnerabilities, amplified by the sheer scale of the Western Pacific battlespace,” Ryan Martinson, a professor at the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S.海军战争学院在国际海事安全中心的一篇文章中写道。 “如果降解足够的节点，整个系统可能会失去其功能。”具有讽刺意味的是，美国和中国对强度平衡的看法似乎是镜像。 The U.S. and its Pacific allies worry over China’s growing submarine fleet, which the Pentagon predicts will reach 65 units this year and 80 by 2035. China already can deploy six nuclear ballistic and six nuclear attack submarines, plus a large number of conventional subs armed with anti-ship missiles, including 21 advanced Yuan-class diesel-electric boats.RELATEDNavy leaders are concerned about increased Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic and中国潜艇活动在太平洋。它们不再是这种威胁的庇护所，他们警告说，中国担心美国强化的美国反海洋战争或ASW的努力已经使中国潜艇变得太脆弱了。马丁森写道：“该计划正在投资潜艇，因为它承认了他们巨大的潜在威慑和战斗价值。” “然而，这种价值取决于其船的能力未被发现。