Posted on 10/09/2019 3:38:22 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Yup. Our subs should covertly be putting a lot of enemy vessels on the ocean floor. Start with Iranian subs.
Pretty stupid of the Chinese. This may hinder the tracking of the tanker ships at sea but the second they hit an Iranian port I guarantee that the US military knows about it. One analyst using satellite data could easily track the movements of at least 2 or three of these tankers.
We should start seizing these Chinese ships.
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Drone strike.
Any relation between COSCO and Chao (McConnell) shipping?
Harbor Freight will sell a smaller knock off that might float for a little while.
Same Cosco firm that was about to buy california’s largest port but Trump stopped. Wonder what got him to thinking....
We used to be that dumb...until Trump.
Methinks somebody is now repositioning satellites and other assets to get a “clear” picture on what is happening.
5.56mm
Or mine some ports.
Yup...Aisle 32...next to the potato chips
Hi.
I don’t have a Twitter account, and can’t access the url.
No problem.
If something serious pops up please ping me.
5.56mm
Will do.
Try this one, I posted it to ameribbean expat
but meant it for you.
https://twitter.com/TankerTrackers
I went to law school there.
China finally found a seller hard up enough to accept Yuan as payment?
Just monitor the Iranian export terminals for loading, and track any tankers that might attempt cross-loading to another at sea (the old North Korean sanctions busting technique).
I think about 90% of Iranian oil goes out through Kharg Island.
Very interesting, if you ship cargo you better get your stuff off their ships before they sell it when they can’t unload. That is the next thing that will happen
There’s two reasons that are possible. The most likely is to try to hide their movements, which in the age of drones and sattelites is pretty far-fetched, but from their increasingly difficult situation worth a shot to them.
Of course, if they end up ramming another country’s flagship at night the pressure will REALLY get ramped up.
The second possibility is that the lights go off because the ships are being idled because no one wants to take on the U.S. position in this one. While someone like Iran would not likely take that approach they could see it as a sop to America in a public relations way, to not load a Cosco ship for a week or two.
One lesson of the past few years with the trade battle is that the biggest lessons get learned in unexpected ways, like the NBA big mouths are finding out.
or sink ‘em!
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