Posted on 12/07/2021 10:23:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Most of the Western world has transferred its manufacturing sectors to China. Every single day, Chinese container ships ply the world's oceans, fanning out to every continent except, maybe, for Antarctica. We've long known that those ships are carrying cheap goods and the West's economic destruction, but The Sun is contending that those same ships are likely to be disguised missile launchers.
Here's the main part of the story, although you should visit The Sun to read the whole thing:
CHINA has been secretly developing Trojan Horse-style missiles hidden in shipping containers that can be unleashed on enemy ports, experts warn.
Military analysts believe the country's huge fleet of freighters and fishing vessels could be turned into warships with the use of the secretive container missiles.
Disguised as a regular shipping containers, they can be sneaked on board a vessel to blend in seamlessly with the hundreds of others on board.
The sheer number of container ships in the world makes them harder to pinpoint than warships in the event of war.
Like the fabled Trojan Horse, the missiles would be quietly smuggled into or near an enemy port on a civilian vessel before being unleashed in a surprise attack.
Rick Fisher, senior fellow in Asian military affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center, told The Sun Online while Chinese have not officially confirmed they have the missiles — it is likely they have them.
Nor is this a far-fetched conspiracy theory. In 2016, at a Zhuhai air show, China paraded missile launchers that are meant to be hidden in the containers used on cargo ships. America's commercial ports would be a perfect target because they are undefended.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What? China is going to attack the entire world with missiles? I wonder how that will work out for them?
Sounds like a smart tactical move.
That’s a believable scenario.
Sounds like an ingenious plan.
Seriously, did not steal your post. ;^)
Mutual Assured Destruction
Sounds like an ingenious plan.
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Why?
It has only limited scenarios.
Container ships from China would never be allowed in port without inspection during war-time (if the war included China).
They also wouldn’t want to get caught with them in port during peace-time.
So, fitting to read this article on December 7th, but the only main use would be a pre-planned, wide-spread surprise attack
Aren’t a lot of ships stuck out at sea anyway?
“...The sheer number of container ships in the world makes them harder to pinpoint than warships in the event of war...”
Ha!
Well, all we have to do is locate the containers ... GIVE Joe the list and no one will EVER find them!
Just pay a Chinese fellow to drop a small explosive upstream from the Three Gorges Dam that will explode when it passes through a pressurized discharge chute.
Should send a message.
Extremely ingenous.
Kill your customer
ruin your export business
export their peeps to simply replace all of us here in the grave.
confiscate all of our monetary resources needed to keep two economies alive.
face world disgrace
I’ll not lose sleep about this anytime soon.
“The sheer number of container ships in the world makes them harder to pinpoint than warships in the event of war.”
The sheer number of container ships means that the seas would become a “target rich environment” the second China tries to pull such a move, since every Chinese merchant ship would become fair game for our Navy.
Missiles laden with weaponized gain-of-function research products, no doubt.
Has China been talking to the Bidens again?
It’s a tremendously stupid plan, not a smart one, but I guess it seems smart to the kind of people who can’t think more than one move ahead in a chess game.
Why would they need missiles? A nuclear explosion within the port or close to it would wipe out L.A.
Old news. 220-540Km range, shipping container variant available…
(YJ-18C)
https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/yj-18/
~Easy
Would not be so far fetched to think so and we would be pussies to expose if we knew it p- we started destroying our society and middle class towns, jobs, people and way of life in the late 60s for what - the control of the world by the very few by 2030 or so...you will own nothing and you will be happy or what ever the F*CK they have said!
They are NOT speaking for me!
“ruin your export business”
And your import business. China is the world’s 2nd biggest importer as well as the world’s top exporter. And their top trade partners are almost exclusively their strategic enemies. Even if they could find other countries to buy their exports, they would have no exports to sell without the imports.
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