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Beijing Builds ‘Monster’ Ship for Patrolling the South China Sea
The Diplomat ^
| January 13, 2016
| Franz-Stefan Gady
Posted on 01/14/2016 5:38:39 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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To: sukhoi-30mki
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01/14/2016 5:40:34 AM PST
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Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Don Corleone
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01/14/2016 5:45:37 AM PST
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thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Don Corleone
That’s a B.A.T. (Big-Ass Target)!
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01/14/2016 5:46:35 AM PST
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ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: sukhoi-30mki
It looks like a building in one of the Chinese ghost towns.
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01/14/2016 5:48:44 AM PST
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subterfuge
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To: ManHunter
Isn’t it amazing analysts keep saying our ships are to big and here the chicoms build this and all of a sudden it’s a monster ship. Guess our carriers are Godzilla!
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01/14/2016 5:48:56 AM PST
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ealgeone
To: ManHunter
Are you kidding? 0bama probably sent China congrats and the bottle of champaign to launch it.
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01/14/2016 5:50:47 AM PST
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r_barton
To: ealgeone
If they didn’t hype it as a “monster ship,” no one would read the article.
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01/14/2016 5:57:46 AM PST
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Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: thackney
76 millimeter rapid fire guns, two auxiliary guns and two anti-aircraft machine guns Sounds like standard anti-pirate, coast guard armament. The size of the ship is related to sea worthiness in large seas and fuel capacity for sustained patrols.
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01/14/2016 6:07:31 AM PST
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SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
China has finished construction on a second 10,000-ton China Coast Guard (CCG) cutter destined for patrols in the South China Sea10,000 tons? Peanuts.
USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH (CVN-77)
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posted on
01/14/2016 6:07:59 AM PST
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Bloody Sam Roberts
(Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
Good for force projection. About the size of a WW2 Baltimore Class cruiser. Wouldn’t have a chance against a Demoines class heavy cruiser. 20k tons and 9 automatic 8 inch guns. Yowzah!
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01/14/2016 6:09:55 AM PST
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Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Coast Guard, not Navy.
We don’t put Carriers in our Coast Guard either.
This is bigger than any of our Coast Guard Cutters, only our Ice Breakers have more displacement, but they need the mass.
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01/14/2016 6:11:22 AM PST
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thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Don Corleone
Kind of looks like a smaller version of the old Hospital ships.
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01/14/2016 6:26:12 AM PST
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DAC21
(.z)
To: SampleMan
Uhhh....I don’t know just how well that Chinese barge would fare in a Pacific typhoon. From looking at it, anyway.
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01/14/2016 6:35:20 AM PST
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elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: elcid1970
Y did Carter normalize relations with these people?
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01/14/2016 6:53:37 AM PST
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DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: Jimmy Valentine
" Wouldn t have a chance against a Demoines class heavy cruiser." Of course the Chinese ship would have a chance if our cruiser could not fire back in a timely fashion given our current rules of engagement.
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01/14/2016 6:56:26 AM PST
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buckalfa
(I am feeling much better now.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
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01/14/2016 7:47:14 AM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: Jimmy Valentine
Pity they’re all museums/scrapped now.
Still, this isn’t so much a ‘monster ship’ as much as a modern take on the armed merchant cruiser type.
If they wanted a monster, they’d first have to start at 100K tons and go up from there. But that’s what those ‘islands’ are for.
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01/14/2016 7:50:03 AM PST
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Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
A monster ship? Well, let’s see here. We have the Titanic, it went down on it’s maiden voyage. There is also the Bismarck, it went down. I’m not trying to say this Chinese one will go down right away, but big ships are big targets, it will go down if there is a war.
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posted on
01/14/2016 7:51:50 AM PST
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redfreedom
(Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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