By Natali Moss
The latest US intelligence data shows that Chinese Navy has 8 Type 071 landing ships, three universal Type 075, 35 Large Landing Ships and 50 Small. In addition, there are 6 ships on the bison air cushion and from 15 landing ships on Yuyi air cushion. Therefore, during the exercises, analysts discovered 4 civilian ferries RORO at once.
The ships, according to the assistant senior researcher of the Defense Program of the New American Security Center Tom Shugart, unusually deviated from traditional routes. He was able to identify them: Bo hai bao zhu, bo hai hei heng da, bo hai fei zhu and bo hai cui zhu. They all belong to Bohai Ferry Group and have a watertone of about 100,000 tons. In total, China has 31 ocean ferries RORO, which can be attracted to maneuvers.
"The NVAK and its reserve civic merchant fleet are still unable to provide significant opportunities for landing or marine logistics in harsh or difficult conditions necessary for maintaining a large -scale invasion through the Strait on Taiwan," - said in the analysis of the Institute of Marine Studies. Michael Lady. We will remind, on October 11, the Navy of Saudi Arabia and China began joint education. Chinese Navy is preparing to put into operation a new generation submarine.
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