BYD Shenzhen and BYD Xi'an LNG-powered RO-RO carriers, the world's largest RO-RO carriers. Posted by the official Twitter account of BYD Global.
Chinese shipbuilding industry
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asif iqbal
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this area of combat is very underrated
and China needs to be able to disrupt underseas cables because 90% of the data is transferred using under sea cables
hope China has a ace up its sleeve in this area of combat
by78
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asif iqbal
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I cant help but think that these "dual use" platforms can be repurposed for naval military use to land huge number of men and materials and other resources
Chinese commercial ship building also has another advantage, the industrial strength they provide in shipbuilding capacity give them a edge in a war which requires battle of attrition , meaning replacing damaged and sunken ships
on the Chinese side the lack of advanced submarines and high number of big ticket hardware items like Carriers, DDG and SSNs that the USN has a technical advantage in can be gridded down by superior industrial capacity over a prolonged period of time
Chinese Commercial shipbuilding must continue and its military can keep expanding, USN has 66 nuclear submarines with very well trained crews and China really needs to expand in this area of operation
I would like to see some joint exercises between the two branches (commercial and navy) but that would then give away too much
overall Chinese shipbuilding industry accounts for over 55% of Global shipbuilding lets hope they can take a greater share
They don’t really need to repurpose these RO-RO carriers are built to military standards, meaning they can carry heavier vehicles such as tanks without damaging the decks.
Joint exercises have happened multiple times already, there have been satellite photos and everything.
I did a count a couple of weeks ago for work for the global RORO fleet, more than half are Chinese owned, especially the big boys >10000T and deck space 4000m2 to 15000m2. So this is like 70+ vessels, purely RORO and FOFO vessels. (Excluding LOLO). They are also building more, because you need alot of them for offshore wind and wellhead installation.
Most of them are speced for 20t/m2 and above deck strength so more than enough to embark tanks etc. They could probably fit around 90 to 200 vehicles on each. (They are generally 40m - 60m wide, and deck length of 125 for the little ones and 250m for the big ones)
Those jack up barges would work wonders combined with these RORO vessels for transloading..... Wouldn't take long (hours) to weld temp sea fastening points to them to tie down the vehicles for the cross straight journey, probably couple hours to get them on, 3 or 4 hours to cross and an hour or 2 to unload.
Don't think they have a shortage of sealift capacity.......
This seems like a strategy to not only shift the global shipping industry away from Chinese shipbuilders but also to degrade China's shipbuilding capacity in the long run. A 90% drop in business, if kept up for the long term, means that most of China's shipbuilding companies will have to shut down or consolidate. This in turn will massively hamper China's flexibility and capacity in this industry in times of crisis - such as war.
So the US strategy is actually a twofer: drive business away from Chinese shipbuilders whilst condemning said shipbuilders to an early grave.