He's pointing out that T1 submarines include the category T1SUBMARINE, T2 submarines have the category T2SUBMARINE, but the T3 submarine doesnt have a category T3SUBMARINE.
Depending on the reason for wanting it, you could still achieve something similar by looking for units that contain both the TECH3 category and the SUBMERSIBLE category, while if you wanted to then exclude the t3 nuke subs you could exclude the category NUKE.