“I see this as a test run. They can block the world’s navies.”
Fill a couple hundred of those containers with some explosives and get a jihadi to make a play for his 72 virgins.
L
Even minus explosives, getting a grounded megaship unstuck can be impossible. The one in Suez displaces 220,000 TONS, almost double a USN CVN.
When something that massive, even moving slowly, leaves the channel and hits a bank, it wants to keep going, digging way way in.
There is a Korean Ro/Ro car carrier stuck in Brunswick GA for about a year. Fortunately, it’s not blocking the channel. It went aground, and had to be cut into sections to be removed, with a giant “chain saw” around the hull, like that Italian cruise liner.
Giant crane arrives at Georgia shipwreck awaiting removal
A towering, floating crane has arrived on the Georgia coast to remove in giant chunks a cargo ship that overturned more than a year ago
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/giant-crane-arrives-georgia-shipwreck-awaiting-removal-73862270