The PLAN LCAC Type 726 Yuyi Class
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asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
just give it the usual line "it was a routine training mission"
kwaigonegin
Colonel
That is one GIANT intimidating craft!! Imagine a dozen or so Zubrs coming at full speed onto a beach. Yikes!
these crafts would've come in very handy on the beaches of Normandy. Alas they were made 50 yrs too late.
these crafts would've come in very handy on the beaches of Normandy. Alas they were made 50 yrs too late.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
I don't think it's that surprising to hear about an incident like this. If anyone has seen that video of Russia car accidents, because car cameras are commonplace due to insurance fraud, there's one clip of a Russian tank crossing the highway at high speed. In Russia... it happens.
The russian MoD is saying that the hovercraft landing was part of routine exercise on a military area and that all those people at the beach werent allowed to be there!
It seems that the russian military should better enforce military area restrictions.
It seems that the russian military should better enforce military area restrictions.
kwaigonegin
Colonel
I've noticed it's a topless beach as well.
LOL.. why am I not surprised only you would noticed something like this..
Read something about that incident and was totally baffled. Someone must have really messed up. According to Russian military, the beach belongs to the miliary...
And if that is true, how come there can be beach goers on the beach. Secondly, as and when there is an exercise of this type, shouldn't a forward force be deployed first to warn any people on the beach and to disperse these people.
What happen if the Russian military decided to carry out an armed exercise whereby they are firing live rounds onto the beach? Wouldn't that be a disaster?
And if that is true, how come there can be beach goers on the beach. Secondly, as and when there is an exercise of this type, shouldn't a forward force be deployed first to warn any people on the beach and to disperse these people.
What happen if the Russian military decided to carry out an armed exercise whereby they are firing live rounds onto the beach? Wouldn't that be a disaster?
There is always the probability that China will build something like MONTFORD POINT class (which is basically a float-on/float-off ship that China has build plenty of) to a accommodate the Zubrs for long range deployments. Of course that would imply total sea control, which would mean it will not be used against USN or IJN. Perhaps to protect Chinese interests in Africa?
Well, I was trying to give you the benefit of a doubt, but in reality it was not a mistake of accident at all...it was you making a point.
Well, I promise you, in ten years or 100 years, the Japanese will not call their Navy the Imperial Japanese Navy. Not going to happen. Any reference to IJN is just the poster's, or referrer's way of trying to invoke feelings from World War II against the current day Japanese. Let's just be honest about that.
The name is officially the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force, or JMSDF for short...and that is plenty short enough for people to call it if they choose.
The only change I could see coming in the long term would be to go to simply the Japanese Navy, but in today's world they would be more likely to go to the Japanese Maritime Force (JMF) if they made a change at all...and I do not see that coming in my life time.
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