They can also load the vehicles for assault operations at sea. Even if the ferries do not have a device to turn them around, they can back them up the ramp. The Marines configured 41 LVT-P5's for mine clearance and installed a huge blade on the front. At Okinawa our LST trained with the drivers as they backed the LVT's from the ocean onto the ship.
Pei-Ping.
Purchased with US citizens' money thanks to everyone buying china crap for the past few decades
Good. Easier to sink!
As I have posted a ridiculous number of times, China would lose a massive number of sea going vessels and aircraft in their attempt on Taiwan. The Taiwanese have untold numbers of anti-ship and anti-air missiles, and the final CCP victory would give “Pyrrhic” a whole new meaning.
The successful attempt would kill so many Chinese men that riots would occur all over China.
China’s snowflake soldiers practice landing on wide flat sandy beaches. Taiwan’s beaches are muddy marshes. And have pipes to spread fuel to ignite..
I wonder how missile hits it can take. Maybe one or two before it’s dead in the water.
Probably pretty fragile, but after first use it’s running as essentially another ship for free. Hard to beat those kinds of economy of scale if you don’t care all that much about losing some units.
when you see new antiair defenses around their precious 3 gorges damn, you’ll know the time is near...
Nothing feels as unnatural as being inside an armored vehicle and rolling down a ramp knowing it ends over 150 feet of water. It just feels wrong...