By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-20 16:45:54 | Updated at 2024-11-23 12:52:24
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Taiwan: The Reason China Is Building A Fleet of Amphibious Assault Ships?
National Security Journal ^ | 11/20/2024 | Robert Farley
Posted on 11/20/2024 7:55:13 AM PST by whyilovetexas111
The expansion of China’s amphibious force is nothing short of historic.
A decade ago, China had no large amphibious platforms. Now it has four big flat-decked amphibs alongside a force of nine landing platform docks (LPDs), and will soon welcome the biggest amphibious assault ships in the world. This is a rate of increase reminiscent of the great dreadnought races of the early 20th century, when Britain, Japan, Germany, and the United States built up spectacular fleets of large battleships in not much more than a decade.
However, it is also one-sided; American shipbuilding has shown no inclination to try to keep up with Chinese expansion.
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TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; defense; military; surfacetargets; taiwan
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Where is Joe Biden on this? Oh, yeah, asleep. And Harris is in Hawaii...
To: whyilovetexas111
It’s certainly not for duck tours.
2 posted on 11/20/2024 7:59:36 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
To: whyilovetexas111
> American shipbuilding has shown no inclination to try to keep up with Chinese expansion. <
It’s not the year 1900 anymore. Wouldn’t one missile or one torpedo be enough to disable or sink a ChiCom amphibious assault ship?
3 posted on 11/20/2024 7:59:54 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
To: whyilovetexas111
They’ve been harping Russia, Russia, Russia as a distraction, while collaborating with China to dethrone the US as the world leader, to create a socialist/authoritarian pattern for the Great Reset.
4 posted on 11/20/2024 8:01:18 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
To: Rennes Templar
It’s ok...
Our Naval life rafts now identify as missle friggates, subs and carriers!
To: Leaning Right
It’s not the year 1900 anymore. Wouldn’t one missile or one torpedo be enough to disable or sink a ChiCom amphibious assault ship?
Exactly correct, but add a drone or a dozen or two to the list, aerial,surface, and submarine.
6 posted on 11/20/2024 8:07:15 AM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
To: whyilovetexas111
The Communist party have to keep those masses of humanity busy building things, amphibious assault platforms...empty cities...otherwise they’ll have too much time to think about their situation and start hanging every single one of the communists from lampposts. It’s coming anyway...they’re just conducting a delaying tactic while they secure their escape routes and banking accounts.
7 posted on 11/20/2024 8:11:19 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
To: TheThirdRuffian
They’ll never make it 100 miles across the strait.
8 posted on 11/20/2024 8:11:29 AM PST by Husker24 (Pp)
To: whyilovetexas111
While neocons and the MIC worry about a possible future invasion of Taiwan
The USA has been invaded by 20 million illegals.
9 posted on 11/20/2024 8:12:10 AM PST by PGR88
To: whyilovetexas111
A "Well, DUH," article lacking any quantitative mention of our antiship missile and submarine capabilities.
Waste of time.
10 posted on 11/20/2024 8:24:21 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
To: whyilovetexas111
American shipbuilding has shown no inclination to try to keep up with Chinese expansion.
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Chinese ship building rate is 225 times the US.
11 posted on 11/20/2024 8:25:48 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: whyilovetexas111
12 posted on 11/20/2024 8:26:32 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Leaning Right
**It’s not the year 1900 anymore. Wouldn’t one missile or one torpedo be enough to disable or sink a ChiCom amphibious assault ship?**
Yep. Look at what drones did to the Black Sea Fleet.
13 posted on 11/20/2024 8:27:27 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
To: PGR88
Deporting illegal aliens is a far easier task than replacing the high end computer chips that only Taiwan is producing. A free Taiwan is a National Security issue.
To: Leaning Right
“American shipbuilding has shown no inclination to try to keep up with Chinese expansion”
That’s because we have satellites that allow is to watch the ChiComs take a few cargo ships and stick a flat deck on them and and instead of the drop down front they put an entry/exit in the side of the thing and call it an assault ship. They’re crap just like everything else the Chinese build. A few drones and they’re on the bottom of the straits.
Whoever wrote this article is an idiot. 🙄
15 posted on 11/20/2024 8:37:26 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Husker24
16 posted on 11/20/2024 8:38:15 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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