SinoSoldier
Colonel
Simply gorgeous. Dubai eat your heart out with your Palm artificial islands.I bet China could construct one if they wanted to as well.
Wow, is that a string of Arabic straddling the palm tree?
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PLAN SCS Bases/Islands/Vessels (Not a Strategy Page)
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Wow, is that a string of Arabic straddling the palm tree?
antiterror13
Brigadier
Totally correct, especially in shallow reef in South China Sea .... lighthouse is extremly important, so China is doing a favour for everybody for freedom of navigation
Zetageist
Junior Member
Totally correct, especially in shallow reef in South China Sea .... lighthouse is extremly important, so China is doing a favour for everybody for freedom of navigation
Also lighthouse is a symbol of sovereignty. Vietnam protected when China started building lighthouses across Paracel Islands recently.
Zetageist
Junior Member
Johnson South Reef/Island: Distances to Phillippines: 194 nm
Hughes Reef/Island: Distances to Phillippines: 187 nm
Cuarteron Reef/Island: Distances to Phillippines: 353 nm
Gaven Reef/Island: Distances to Phillippines: 264 nm
Fiery Cross Reef/Island: Distances to Phillippines: 266 nm
Subi Reef/Island: Distances to Phillippines: 238 nm
So only the Mischief Reef/Island is well within Phillippines' 200 nm EEZ. Hopefully China is really going to turn Mischief Reef/Island into a resort just like 'shen' has posted, so it will be less intimitating to Philippines.
More pictures. These were taken around 28-May-2015. Enjoy!
Meiji (Mischief) Island. Reclamation has started on the eastern fringe. Cloud covering the southern fringe.
Huayang (Cuateron) Island. The harbor is being developed. Lots of construction on the island.
Yongshu (Fiery Cross) Island. The airstrip is complete!
Subi Island. The eastern fringe is long enough to host another airstrip.
Meiji (Mischief) Island. Reclamation has started on the eastern fringe. Cloud covering the southern fringe.
Huayang (Cuateron) Island. The harbor is being developed. Lots of construction on the island.
Yongshu (Fiery Cross) Island. The airstrip is complete!
Subi Island. The eastern fringe is long enough to host another airstrip.
steve_rolfe
Junior Member
These artificial islands being built by the Chinese!..........Do we know how many of them are being built at the present time?
Their speed of construction is amazing, and the amount of preparation work for this must of been started quite sometime ago, maybe the turn of this century. What a huge effort that has obviously been put into this.
The budget must be quite astronomical.............i presume these islands projects have a separate budget, and are not included in the main armed forces budget?
Their speed of construction is amazing, and the amount of preparation work for this must of been started quite sometime ago, maybe the turn of this century. What a huge effort that has obviously been put into this.
The budget must be quite astronomical.............i presume these islands projects have a separate budget, and are not included in the main armed forces budget?
SinoSoldier
Colonel
These ventures are indeed very expensive, but I can only presume that China is doing this with a greater long-term return in thought. These islands will allow China to extend her maritime interests deep into the expanses of the SCS without any worry of overstretching military protection.
steve_rolfe
Junior Member
No...............the details of the claimed evidence of military hardware has not been made public!
Those white buildings reminds me of citadels that people flock into when SHTF.