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I am sure they will fit any number of their ferries with this capability.

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.

1 posted on 07/27/2021 10:14:58 AM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: KC_Lion

Pei-Ping.


2 posted on 07/27/2021 10:17:51 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Retain Mike
Bang Chui Dao, a 15,560-ton roll-on roll-off ferry

Purchased with US citizens' money thanks to everyone buying china crap for the past few decades

3 posted on 07/27/2021 10:22:16 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: Retain Mike

Good. Easier to sink!


4 posted on 07/27/2021 10:22:17 AM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!!)
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To: Retain Mike

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.


5 posted on 07/27/2021 10:23:13 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: Retain Mike

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..


8 posted on 07/27/2021 10:37:25 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Retain Mike

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.


9 posted on 07/27/2021 10:38:29 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Retain Mike

when you see new antiair defenses around their precious 3 gorges damn, you’ll know the time is near...


11 posted on 07/27/2021 10:44:01 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Retain Mike

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...


17 posted on 07/27/2021 11:45:06 AM PDT by DesertRhino (A coup government may not claim the protection of the same constitution it overthrew. )
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