KARACHI – The Pakistani Navy is constructing a VLF station for strategicsubmarine communications. VLF, or Very Low Frequency, stations enableone-way communications with submarines operating in deep sea.
Submarine communications tend to be one-way most of the time, because asubmarine that doesn’t transmit is extremely difficult to detect.
China is working with the Pakistani Navy on the civil works. Work hasalready begun on the foundation for a 205-foot antenna tower, undergroundVLF building and power station.
Work has also begun which would allow repair, maintenance and otherlogistics work to be carried out on Pakistani Navy ships.
Indian military intelligence agencies have reported to Indian media.
Indian intelligence agencies have already reported instances of Chinesesubmarines hanging around close to the Indian coast and Pakistan coast.
China also recently operationalised a military base in Djibouti, on thecoast of the African mainland, at the entry to the crucial Bab-el-MandebStrait to the Red Sea.