Posted on 11/21/2023 8:23:30 PM PST by texas booster
China's People's Liberation Army - Navy ship "Longushan" is reportedly ablaze just off the coast of China tonight. The vessel is reported to be "China's most advanced warship."
No OFFICIAL word on what caused the fire. I am not sure if China has acknowledged the fire yet ...
All mention of this is being rapidly scrubbed from China social media networks, and no official information is coming out of Beijing.
The vessel bears Hull Number 980 and is described as a Type 071 landing ship.
China's fifth Type 071 amphibious transport dock (LPD) Longhushan; with hull number 980) was commissioned with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) on September 12, 2018 in Shanghai.
Originally designed after the Taiwan Strait crisis in 1996, the Type 071, measuring 210 meters long and 28 meters wide, is capable of carrying an 800-man marine battalion and some 20 amphibious tanks.
One post mentioned a helicopter fire.
There is a reason that the USN practices fire drills continuously (at least, they used to), and that is that an effective fire brigade can save a ship from disaster.
“There is a reason that the USN practices fire drills continuously (at least, they used to)”
Yep, now those drills have been replaced by BLM Lectures and Drag Queen shows, so God help us if there’s a fire on one of our naval vessels.
Shouldn’t it be dark in China right now?
A Taiwan action?
My screencaps are not showing up but there is this YT video in the posting link that hasn’t been scrubbed yet.
Looks like three separate fires.
Every little bit helps.
Smoked tofu.
No it seems to be from 12 hours ago, so no. But maybe yes ...
Can’t tell from the shadows, the time of day.
Its 12:30PM in Bejing
The Israelis are suspected of having a way of starting fires. Tons of suspicious fires in Iran. Maybe they are involved or sold the technology to an ally.
The Wackiest Ship In The Army-Navy.
And the same time off the coast of Shanghai.
No idea where the pics came from, but they are close to the shore.
It started to show on Chinese blogs, so somewhere close to shore.
Where’s John McCain ?
I think that Jewish lightning was invented in Brooklyn ...
Maybe they ran into another one of their traps set against the U.S.?
With their economy in a shambles ad their cities still not fully recovered from the historic floods, the loss of a sub and a ship-of-the-line can be a serious weight around the chicom necks...
Right. What was that Navy ship a couple years ago that burned to the waterline in Hawaii? Nobody knew what to do to try to put it out.
I think I saw where China lost another ship to fire last week I think. Could have been this one I guess.
Maybe one of the officers was trying to make some money on the side transporting EVs.
Losing advanced submarines and a surface ship, all in a couple of months.
Probably nothing to do with our guys in DC and Maryland.
The guys there would send money for repairs.
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