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To: Zhang Fei
Funny, charts of the depth disagree with you showing that a large majority of the Sea is only ten meters deep.

https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/AZOV2006/HTML/TOPOGRAPHY/AzovSeaBatimetry.jpg

40 posted on 12/06/2018 6:14:50 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Rashputin

In any case, it is pretty dumb for us to sail in the Black sea. We really have no need for it as anything you can do there from a ship can be done from probably a dozen land bases and not bottle up a fleet. It’s very roughly 250 miles x 700 miles.
As for the sea of Azov, that would be the height of insanity to sail there even if we had a right to (we don’t, it’s legally similar to the great lakes).

But to go there would be the utterly crazed for our fleet. Shallow, small, and with two heavily controlled choke points. Imagine a USN ship in the Sea of Azov for some nutty reason, and the captain hears the news that the bridge over the straight has “collapsed”. He is trapped


46 posted on 12/06/2018 6:40:07 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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