A Type 072-II landing ship presenting its amphibious lift capability
Posted on 04/11/2005 10:43:31 AM PDT by CitadelArmyJag
Hmmm....I guess these container ships will be armored and travel in battle groups while they ply the mecantile waterways of the world?
Any chinese container ship that leaves a port without a load is probably up to no good.
And for all you ship designers out there, how do you design a ship that is both a competent commercial craft and a robust naval vessel?
Seems to me that the Anglosphere was the most competent at this sort of thing viz the massive convoy fleets of WWII. Unless the Chinese have made some sort of amazing maritime discovery, I don't think this scenario is realistic.
don't forget Japan. They know this enemy well. If they have not got an effective and constitutional antidote for the PRC now, I bet they could have one by tomorrow afternoon by assembling the components.
Now listen here, I will snub my nose at China up front and buy the dancing Santa from Walmart on the back end. I want my cake and I will eat it too.
I don't think the Chinese aspirations are that great yet, but this Taiwan thing is getting more and more ominous. At present, our military is better than theirs but the economic fall out that would happen if relations between the two countries got totally antagonistic would be horrendous. Would China pull out it's assets in the American stock market? Would the US pull out economically from China. Somehow I fear that we have more to lose than they do.
Ummm... moot point. Chinese ships are not allowed within Taiwan waters. Good luck to any container ship trying to even get close. Not going to happen.
And to think that Old Europe wants to lift the military trade ban with the Chinese...
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The self-serving wanna-bes leading the EU, will do anything to save the EU, financially and politically...we already saw that in Iraq (throw in Iran and Lybia too)...
That's just what those in charge want you to think so we can have another cold war. So buddies at the big defense contractors can line pockets. There is usually more sides to a story than one or two, especially when dealing with Asian governments (Vietnam?).
I'd rather overestimate an enemy and never have to go to war, than underestimate him and have to play catch-up with missiles flyin' and bombs fallin'.
For your information
They have the next century of progessing to a superpower to lose, we would lose hundreds of thousands but remain #1.
If the Chinese ships are anything like normal container ship, they will not be set up to offload themselves; no cranes. If they must rely on port facilities to unload their cargo, the defense is simple: sabotage the port cranes.
There should be plenty of warning of an impending 'container ship' attack to blow the footings or disable the cranes in some other way. Imagine all that Chinese armor with no way to get off the boat.
Bummer...
China should understand that these container ships would make great coral reefs.
Bulls-eye. Good post
All the calcium locked up inside would make a great start for a coral reef.
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