China's SCS Strategy Thread

plawolf

Lieutenant General
Only problem with that theory is that concrete is heavier than water. Fill a shipping container with concrete and it will sink to the bottom.

Leave enough buoyancy in the container to float and that doesn’t leave you with much concrete. Not to mention the inconvenient fact that shipping containers are not made to the highest of specs or design tolerances. So even if you put in the right amount of concrete, they can easily just leak and sink or corrode and sink.

Even if China was silly enough to do that, it would need to do it on a massive scale for have any effect, and I’m sure the Americans would be blasting news of this all over the MSM if so as further evidence of Chinese bad behaviour.
 

VioletsForSpring

New Member
Registered Member
Interesting theory: USS Connecticut (SSN-22) hit a container. PLA using container like mine but without explosives. lol, love it
Eh, this is pretty stupid, the container would need to be filled with tungeston entirely or something. The Seawolf class submarines are gigantic, most small objects like containers would just bounce off due to the sheer difference in mass. A Seawolf class is 12,000 tons, shipping containers on the other hand the largest shipping containers when filled with water would only be around 400. barely enough to notice if you were to bump into one.
 

FairAndUnbiased

Brigadier
Registered Member
Eh, this is pretty stupid, the container would need to be filled with tungeston entirely or something. The Seawolf class submarines are gigantic, most small objects like containers would just bounce off due to the sheer difference in mass. A Seawolf class is 12,000 tons, shipping containers on the other hand the largest shipping containers when filled with water would only be around 400. barely enough to notice if you were to bump into one.
Kinetic energy of 400 ton container (4000000 kg) bumping into something moving at 10 knots (5 m/s) is 5 MJ. That's not a negligible amount of energy.

Walking into a pole still hurts, after all.
 
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