Japan spots Chinese Warships

bd popeye · Oct 16, 2005

Jeff I have seen the French Mistral ship. In fact I have a pic of one in my pic files of my computer.

im not sure there are any. we dont really have any japenese members.
now, im sure everyone wants to see a plan lph...why has the plan delayed so long anyways? china has a suberb shipbuilding ifrastructure, clearly capable of making lph's. but instead, they build the tank landing ship.

MIGleadre makes a good point! China can build one. But where is it? Honestly I won't be surprised when it happens.

perhaps the plan does not want its neigbors to see it as a threat
but all its neibors have lph's!

They sure do, Japan, S. Korea and Thialand all have LPH type ships. PRC we China watchers are waiting! Hey maybe that's what in that big blue building at Dialian shipyard!

Jeff Head · Oct 16, 2005

bd popeye said:
Jeff I have seen the French Mistral ship. In fact I have a pic of one in my pic files of my computer.

Great...I had not seen it until last week.

bd popeye said:
PRC we China watchers are waiting! Hey maybe that's what in that big blue building at Dialian shipyard!

I would not be surprised to see them, in the next few years, put more than one unit of both LPH and their own carrier. Once they get going...and they do have a propensity to build two at a time.

MIGleader · Oct 16, 2005

maybe the plan wants to wait until most of its immediate neighbors obtain lphs, so nobody will complain. of course, taiwan will be crying, but no one will care.

Jeff Head · Oct 16, 2005

MIGleader said:
maybe the plan wants to wait until most of its immediate neighbors obtain lphs, so nobody will complain. of course, taiwan will be crying, but no one will care.

Well, even Taiwan already has a large Amphibious assault ship. They got one of the US Austin Class and already have it commissioned. 17,000 ton full load displacement and can carry up to six large helos and more smaller ones.

Su-27 Pilot · Oct 17, 2005

Jeff Head said:
Well, even Taiwan already has a large Amphibious assault ship. They got one of the US Austin Class and already have it commissioned. 17,000 ton full load displacement and can carry up to six large helos and more smaller ones.

Which will fell preys to the PLAN Naval Airforce and PLAAF.

Jeff Head · Oct 17, 2005

Su-27 Pilot said:
Which will fell preys to the PLAN Naval Airforce and PLAAF.

Perhaps that is true if it comes to war.

Of course, should it come to war, the ROCN feels the same way about PLAN ships.

Let's hope and pray it does not come to that.

Neko · Oct 20, 2005

That particular ship strikes me as primarily a massive ASW prosecution craft, so it likely won't see much battle without there being sub threats nearby.

Then you again have to consider US involvement in a fight between the two states.

tphuang · Oct 20, 2005

why would Taiwan need such a huge ship? Are they trying to invade China now? lol.

Su-27 Pilot · Oct 21, 2005

tphuang said:
why would Taiwan need such a huge ship? Are they trying to invade China now? lol.

They try to bully US to fight for their causes of INDEPENDENCE "rolleyes"

Lavi · Oct 30, 2005

As far as I know there are a lot of strategic islands in the waters around China, and if it comes to a war this will probably be battlegrounds, it probably is there where a Taiwanese amphibious capability will come into the picture. And the ship really is a true amphibious ship, as opposed to sub-hunting carriers like the Garibaldi.

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