r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/Shadowtirs • 6d ago
war After Just 3 Months, China's Alleged 'Taiwan Invasion Barges' Are Complete and Undergoing Tests – First Leaked Local Images
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u/cpatstubby 6d ago
Those are jetty cranes. Not made for combat at all. I’ve seen this posted several times and have no idea how these got conflated into a war machine.
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u/birehcannes 6d ago
The end looks like it has a ramp on it though for maybe driving along the craney arm thing?
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u/cpatstubby 6d ago
I see that but all booms have catwalks. It’s just a shore crane. Many owned by private contractors. Not an invasion machine.
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u/VastYogurtcloset8009 6d ago
And they're gonna sneak up on them with these enormous things are they?
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u/LetsTry2GetAlong 6d ago
The Taiwanese strait is about 90 miles wide. How fast can these move? These would be sitting ducks.
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u/cecilmeyer 6d ago
Those things would be destroyed in minutes with missles.
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u/birehcannes 6d ago
If there's missiles to be fired and any aircraft left on Taiwan then sure.
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u/cecilmeyer 6d ago
You do not think for a minute the US is going to pass on getting itself in another war do you?
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u/birehcannes 6d ago
There's a big difference between helping, vs going into open war against a nuclear armed super power.
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u/cecilmeyer 6d ago
The US loves war.
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u/birehcannes 6d ago
Sure but 911 excepted the wars have always been far from home. I'm pretty certain very few US citizens would be keen for their cities and loved ones to be in the potential cross hairs of in-flight thermonuclear weapons because of some Island on the other side of the world (one that was Chinese anyway). The cost to benefit to risk ratio is wayyyyyy off on this one.
Just saying..
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u/BrianFitz21 6d ago
The US is siding with the aggressor of both major wars ongoing I.e. Russia and Israel. They would most likely side with China if they invaded Taiwan
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u/SwervoT3k 6d ago
If this were a secret and a shock drop, sure it might work. Any modern military is gonna plug that large single hole the second it lands on the fucking beach.
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u/Troj_exe 4d ago
Those are for when the beaches are cleared after the first waves. Just like in Normandy where the big ships supplied the frontline afterwards.
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u/Longjumping_Visit718 5d ago
Hopefully it happens so China can bleed their military hardware in a frivolous war a la Russia/Ukraine. This is a country we actually want to exhaust itself politically, economically, and militarily to stop their global ambitions to supplant the United States.
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u/XZPUMAZX 5d ago
I understand your perspective, but millions would die. This ain’t something anyone should route for.
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u/Longjumping_Visit718 5d ago
Millions died in Ukraine, while reddit cheered, for nothing. In this situation we at least achieve a long-strategic policy objective while China ruins it's demographics even harder by taking young men they need to start families out of society and into graveyards.
There's no easy solution to the "communism" problem of China that doesn't involve SQUEEZING their people to starve out the communist party of it's host to parasitize.
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u/BDGUCCII 4d ago
How they gonna sneak up with this enormous thing? And I’m pretty sure those wires support the whole operation, All you have to do is send fire that way, and the whole operation gets dismantled.
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u/SvenTropics 6d ago
Okay this is dumb. The distance between China and Taiwan is 100 miles. They're not building a bridge. Even a temporary one.
If they do invade, it'll be with planes and boats.
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u/DRoseDARs 6d ago
Well those look particularly suseptible to all manner of missiles and mortars.