Chinese Marines: How many can they land in a day?
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Issa said:
You're going to get a wide range of different numbers.
Someone who wants to exaggerate would cite maximum numbers based on troop transport capability. If you look at the "capacity" of a landing ship, it'd say something like:
"200 troops, or 5 tanks, or 10 vehicles, or 500 tons of cargo beaching"
Realistically you cannot count every ship to be carrying maximum # of troops in an amphibious invasion. The troops need tanks, APC's, artillery, heavy equipment, trucks, ammo, food, etc. Unless if you're invading Somolia against militia armed with Ak-47's only.
As for India, why go all the way by ship when you can send the troops over by land?
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you guys forget one thing to take into account, in war time, PLA are able and free to commandeered civilian property for landing just as they did in flood time. PLA sunk lots of large civilian ships and trucks in Yangzi rive to block flood, government will compenstate for it. commandeered civilian propert for war is a tradition of PLA so called people's war. 
So..The PLA could use "any means possible" to invade Tiawan or conduct any other military operation? You know If I was in the PLA and had to cross the strait in some ferry or other civillan ship I would not feel as secure as I would in a real Amphibous ship. Afterall the civillan ships are not equipped for such a task. And there water tight integrity justs sucks. Which makes for easy sinking.
I don't believe commmercial sealift resources would seriously be used in any kind of amphibious assault/landing. After a beachhead has been secured/a port been occupied and put to use, yeah. But not before that, certainly not when enemy is still shooting at you. Alternatively, some of the commercial fleet could be used as decoys and/or cannon fodder.
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