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ougoah said:

But surely one can't and China won't submerge AshM in international waters. Unless they are within the 10km of Chinese claimed islands or actual Chinese islands. If that's the case, there's really not much point submerging them for an added 10km of range. Mines are probably much better?

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Countries mine international waters all the time during wars. USS Tripoli was hit by a mine 150 miles from Kuiwait. Having rocket mines that are activatable means China can lay them well ahead of a conflict, at the cost of minor risk of early discovery/accidental activation.

No Dorothy this is not the South China Sea. This is the East China Sea if these ships are units of the Third Destroyer Division. No. 131, 136, 139 and 530 are seen this clip, along with footage of Kashtan CIWS firing.

Poyanghu (Hull 882), a decommissioned type 905 replenishment tanker being broken apart after it was used as a target ship, evidently hit by multiple inert anti-ship missiles.

However it seems the hits were from the side, and not from the top as expected if it was hit by anti-ship ballistic missile. Rumours of this ship being the target for last year's AShBM test with DF-21D and DF-26B seems unlikely given this.

More training in the East China Seas. See what's inside the destroyer #139 or is that #136, plus more Kashtans in action.

Maj. Gen. Wang Zhong, Deputy Chief of Staff of the East Sea Fleet, becomes Commander of the China Coast Guard. He served on two destroyers and commanded an escort task force to the Middle East.


東海艦隊の副参謀長から海警の司令になった王仲才少将は、パイロットから「飞行员舰长班」を卒業して水上艦屋になった。このコース卒業生がいま海軍の指揮官となっている。 王はFF544の見習い〜LUHU級DDの副長を経てソブレの副長〜艦長を経験し中東派遣部隊も指揮した。 水上艦運用のエリートだな。
Translated from Japanese by Google
Maj. Gen. Wang Zhong, who became the commander of the Coast Guard from the Deputy Chief of Staff of the East Sea Fleet, graduated from the Pilot's "Chief Team" and became a surface ship. Alumni of this course are now commanders of the Navy. The king experienced the apprenticeship of FF544-the deputy captain of LUHU class DD, then the deputy captain of Sobre-the captain, and also commanded the Middle East dispatch unit. It's an elite of surface ship operations.

His extensive international experience will be helpful for this job.

ougoah said:

But surely one can't and China won't submerge AshM in international waters. Unless they are within the 10km of Chinese claimed islands or actual Chinese islands. If that's the case, there's really not much point submerging them for an added 10km of range. Mines are probably much better?

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These are basically mines that expand the proximity of area denial pressure far out from the places that they’re laid down.

There's just something really amusing about this diagram.

This would be a big first step if true.


Vietnamese air force base in Spratleys with surface to air and antiship missiles hidden.

Delete, as the image was a file photo. Sigh...