"China's Second Amphibious Assault Ship Has Started Sea" Topic
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| Tango01 | 23 Dec 2020 9:35 p.m. PST |
… Trials "Photos by Chinese ship potters show that China's second amphibious assault ship, a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) known as Type 075 has started sea trials. The vessel set sails this morning departing its pier at the Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. For the record, the first-in-class ship started sea trials in August 2020. It has since been relocated to the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Naval Base of Sanya, on Hainan island: A total of eight LHDs are said to be on order for the PLAN…" link
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| arealdeadone | 24 Dec 2020 6:35 a.m. PST |
I say let the Chinese waste money on these kind of colonial warfare/disaster relief ships. Given China's lack of STOVL combat aircraft, these kind of ships are just an expensive flag waver as they are incapable of offensive action and require large allocations of surface vessels for protection. (At the same time I am disappointed Australia acquired two virtually defenceless ones). |
| walkabout | 24 Dec 2020 11:35 a.m. PST |
Taiwan needs to buy hundreds if not thousands of man-portable surface-to-air missiles and train their troops in using them. |
| Tango01 | 24 Dec 2020 12:45 p.m. PST |
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