Sound alarms are blaring over an escalating partnership between Russia and China to subvert the U.S.Military amid rising hostility between the world powers.Rear Adm.
Mark Montgomery tells Fox News Digital that Moscow may be providing Beijing with technology to make its submarines harder for the U.S.Navy to detect, potentially eroding a key military advantage in the tensions over Taiwan."Russia is giving incredibly important technology to China.
They're allegedly giving them submarine quieting technology," Montgomery, co-author of the new book "Axis of Aggressors," told Fox News Digital.President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands before a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, March 20.(AP/Russian Presidential Press Office via AP)THREE KEY REASONS WHY AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE TAIWAN TO COMMUNIST CHINAMontgomery said Russian forces are providing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with submarine-quieting technology, an area where China has long sought to improve its capabilities.
Such a transfer, he warned, could weaken a critical U.S.advantage in undersea warfare — a gap that has long favored American forces."Any weakening of our asymmetric advantage in undersea warfare is a big deal," he cautioned.The Navy says its submarine force relies on technological superiority and stealth to maintain its undersea advantage, while China has continued to face weaknesses in submarine propulsion and quieting even as it rapidly modernizes its fleet.Quieting technology reduces a submarine’s acoustic signature, making it harder to detect and track.
Russian assistance in that area could help Beijing narrow the gap, complicating the U.S.Navy’s ability to find Chinese submarines in a potential future conflict over Taiwan's independence from the CCP.The Chinese Embassy did not directly address whether Beijing has received Russian submarine-quieting technology when reached by Fox News Digital."Military cooperation between China and Rus...