Posted on 07/21/2024 6:33:29 AM PDT by MAGA2017
The sudden appearance of four crane barges where a submarine had been parked has prompted questions about the possibility of an accident.
Satellite imagery shows unusual activity last month, including the sudden appearance of four crane barges, at a shipyard in China that builds submarines and other naval vessels, which might potentially be a sign of an accident of some kind.
Tom Shugart, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) think tank and a retired U.S. Navy submarine warfare officer, was first to notice the goings-on at the Wuchang Shipyard. This yard, which is part of the state-owned China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), is situated along a stretch of the Yangtze River just outside the city of Wuhan. It was fully relocated from a site within Wuhan proper to its current location sometime between 2021 and 2022.
“An older image from 29 May shows nothing unusual – a presumably new-construction Yuan-class submarine (Type 039 variant) in the usual spot where newly-launched boats are fitted out,” Shugart wrote in a series of posts on X.
...“I acquired an [satellite] image [from Planet Labs] from June 13th. In the image, there appears to be what look like crane barges clustered around…something…near where the submarine was earlier,” Shugart continued. “Also, the floating pier where the submarine was moored appears to have been offset a bit.”
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They caught a big one!
Boom! Shipyard managers will be no more
Tofu dregs sub.
CC
The N-95 filtration system let in seawater.
Can’t see it. The whole thing sunk? Water’s not that deep is it?
The stolen American technology ‘accidentally’ sabotaged the sub.
Hmm! Either it is on the floor of the river or perhaps it’s been moved already to another location for fitting out and the crane barges are a huge look-over-here distraction.
DEI in the Chinese shipyards???
Chinese submarines often suffer catastrophic rapid disassembly.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOPS
Someone forgot to close the screen door?
The ChiComs are having Soviet-style problems with their weapons.
Recall less than a year ago, I think, another ChiCom sub caught fire in port.
After:
Note that the black submarine sized and shaped object is described as a shadow of the left hand most crane. The shadow of the othe cranes pint in a different direction...
Nice job omitting all the most significant details from your excerpt.
Someone left the sub’s screen door open…. Oops!
All 4 booms on those cranes appear to be lifting a sub. Maybe it started taking on water and the snagged it before it went down.
The shadows are all in the appropriate positions relative to the sun. The dark sub-shaped shadow is almost certainly the shadow of the crane on the left-most barge.
Nope, all shadows point in one direction, take into account the angles of the cranes on the middle two ships. One direction. Singular.
I’m surprised you didn’t catch the two typos in your haste to distract from the ground truth and blur the focus on the facts.
You’re slipping.
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