Posted on 09/27/2018 7:34:25 AM PDT by chief lee runamok
With the launch of its second aircraft carrier, China has enhanced its position in the front ranks of military powers and prompted questions as to the ultimate purpose of its navy. The Chinese navy, formally known as the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), is expanding and will be doing so for years — decades — to come. Some of this is the natural consequence of being the navy of a country in economic ascendancy. Some of this is bureaucratic politics; the PLA is represented on the Communist Party Central Committee, and the PLA answers to the Chinese Communist Party, not the Chinese government. But some of this, the interesting part, is what’s left after one accounts for normal economic growth and institutional self-interest. We might not just be seeing an updated navy or a more potent navy; we might be seeing a different navy, with a different mission.
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First thing that comes to mind is the story of seven Chinese brothers swallowing the sea.
I thought it was Japanese brothers...
The ChiCom Empire has arrived.
The M-3 tank on the Eastern Front. The Reds called them “Coffin for Seven Brothers”
China’s strategic position makes truly global naval power an expensive and unnecessary ambition. Instead, China seems likely to aim for a global spoiler role against the USN as a way to dissuade the US from intervention against Chinese domination of the South China Sea and other objectives in the western Pacific.
T-99 Chinese mbt
M-3???
aka “Lee” and “Grant”
An analogy, if you will...a person with a Lamborghini crashes it on their first outing.
That clears it up ...
Most all had riveted hulls and when hit, even if not penetrated, the impact knocked the rivets loose so they spanged about inside and killed the crew just as efficiently as if they were machine-gunned. A few later ones had welded hulls.
I found it interesting that they were used up until the end of the war in the China-Burma area as the Japs tanks were so thin-skinned, they weren't a threat. Anti-tank guns were a different matter.
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