wild so apparently the Chinese invasion of Taiwan would involve lots of converted, unarmored commercial vessels to carry troops this seems like a bad idea in the sense that they would be easy to sink, and doing so would cripple chinas exporting ability?https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/07/27/thousands-of-ships-millions-of-troops-china-is-assembling-a-huge-assault-flotilla-for-a-possible-attack-on-taiwan/amp/ …
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4th Class Officer @4thClassOfficerReplying to @eigenrobot1). Big merchant ships are actually hard to sink, unless you can set them on fire (which isn't as easy as it sound). And they would still have escorts to provide some defense. 2). Even if they lose a bunch, they can get more shipping hulls/pay for ships from various places..6 replies 0 retweets 36 likesShow this thread -
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i assume that the CCP has to assume that we have advanced weapon systems we've been holding in reserve for conflict with major nation states when was the last time we had a major naval engagement?
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now imagine 40 years of R&D and much higher stakes
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china and russia advertise their breakthroughs - i suspect we generally do the opposite
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which thing are you talking about here?
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gonna have to defer to venus on this one lol - realized immediately upon responding that i'd misread their post and in fact had no idea what it meant i was hoping for elaboration before admitting that but here we are
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