Posted on 06/21/2015 8:27:38 AM PDT by tcrlaf
China's government has passed new guidelines requiring civilian shipbuilders to ensure their vessels can be used by the military in the event of conflict, state-run media said on Thursday.
The regulations require five categories of vessels including container ships to be modified to "serve national defence needs", the state-run China Daily newspaper said.
The regulations "will enable China to convert the considerable potential of its civilian fleet into military strength", it said.
The report said that China had about 172,000 civilian ships at the end of last year, suggesting the measure could be a major boost to China's navy.
China's government will cover the costs of the plan, it added.
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This appears to resolve that problem.
How long does it take to convert a super-large container ship into a carrier, or landing ship?
Shades of Jeff Head...
I believe we have officially gone through the looking glass.
Why go to all the trouble & expense of converting the ships? They wouldn’t even have to go that far.
Take 1 container ship.
Add 1 or 2 high-yield hydrogen devices. Place in a container. Load aboard said ship.
Repeat for as many seaports & cities as you want destroyed.
Send ships to said American ports.
When they’re all in place, send a signal to detonate.
Voila’! US is instantly crippled.
Don’t think this scenario hasn’t already been thought of in Beijing (and other places).
IIRC, this country used to do (have) similar requirements. Planes, trains and ships.
Hitler’s Kriegsmarine also did this with great success early on in the war.
There are actually SAM systems that are cargo container based.
They are looking for the ability to move equipment and ground troops. The U.S. has marad.
Marad has Older commercial ships converted for military use. The ready reserve fleet.
Will taxes go up or down after China takes over?
Both the Chinese and the Russians have already developed container-based SAM and Ship-killer systems.
The “Club-K” is already tested and is being marketed.
We may have air superiority, but we can’t possibly plink every container in Asia looking for weapons systems.
The Chicoms are formulating logistical operations for the conquest of Taiwan.
They don't have to come to us, they know we will come to them.
China has developed advanced Sunburn anti-ship missiles and surface to surface missiles. They've placed thousands along the coast adjacent to Taiwan. China will make a play for Taiwan just as they did for Hong Kong and Macao.
Furthmore, China realizes Taiwan and the U.S. signed a treaty and Congress passed legislation called The Taiwan Defense Act. We are obligated by law to come to Taiwan's defense.
Hence....Sunburn anti-ship missiles. The U.S. Navy is fully aware of the capabilities of this weapon system. It was developed to counter our carrier battle groups that would steam toward the Taiwan straits in defense of Taiwan.
This is a pretty messed up scenario and we gave China the means to develop the capability to counter our military.
It seems that the easiest defense for Taiwan is to make the Taiwan Strait impassable to shipping. They cannot deny the Chinese Navy approach, but they can so severely delay them as to make invasion impossible.
The first line of defense is technologically simple. Make millions of floating “coffee can” sized naval mines. While they wouldn’t particularly bother warships, though they might, they would bring commercial ships used by their navy to a screeching halt. A few, foot sized holes through a double hull is more than most could handle.
Then you have fewer, but deadlier, naval mines for warships, along with a bunch of tricks to take out their submarines. All the while, harassing them from the air.
Such invasions, like D-Day in WWII, are planned on the assumption that the vast majority of invaders will be wiped out, at much as 90%, but still win if they can establish a foothold. Anything better than that is a bonus.
We could take 300,000T tankers, heavily armor the stern and fill it with cruise missiles, container SAM and ASW systems. Hard to sink, cheaper than new builds but not sexy enough for the pentagon.
Tho isn’t new. The British helped finance the building of Cunard liners by having the design include reinforced deck platforms to install guns. The British revamped civilian ships again during the Falklands war.
We should; it is a practical concept.
I use it when I buy my own clothing (even for work); lots of Khaki, various shades of green, brown...be prepared!
Any container ship modified for military use should be excluded from American ports.
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