Justice Mission 2025

Is it really surprising that China is conducting live fire exercises there? They've done it previously and will continue to do so. I don't see how this is concerning.

Wake me when the entire PLAN, PLAAF and PLARF are mobilized and on the move.
 
EmoBirb said:
Is it really surprising that China is conducting live fire exercises there? They've done it previously and will continue to do so. I don't see how this is concerning.

Wake me when the entire PLAN, PLAAF and PLARF are mobilized and on the move.
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This would be a trivial way to overt-covertly** lay a whole crapton of naval mines.

** As in, the stuff is hitting the water obviously, but not from a time when laying mines has been announced. Nor are they necessarily obviously mines, in the fashion of Mk80 Quickstrikes.

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Scott Kenny said:
This would be a trivial way to overt-covertly** lay a whole crapton of naval mines.

** As in, the stuff is hitting the water obviously, but not from a time when laying mines has been announced. Nor are they necessarily obviously mines, in the fashion of Mk80 Quickstrikes.

(edited for emphasis)
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I think it is a little doubtful that action would be clandestine for very long. So either another exercise or war inside a couple weeks. Nothing you just dump on the seabed is going to be left alone, and I rather doubt anything left in that area escapes notice for long.
 
Josh_TN said:
I think it is a little doubtful that action would be clandestine for very long. So either another exercise or war inside a couple weeks. Nothing you just dump on the seabed is going to be left alone, and I rather doubt anything left in that area escapes notice for long.
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For example, a bunch of Mk80 "practice bombs" would require direct inspection to see that they really are practice bombs without a fuze and not a Quickstrike set with some long delay before activation.

(I'm assuming that the Chinese have something comparable to Quickstrike.)
 
Scott Kenny said:
For example, a bunch of Mk80 "practice bombs" would require direct inspection to see that they really are practice bombs without a fuze and not a Quickstrike set with some long delay before activation.

(I'm assuming that the Chinese have something comparable to Quickstrike.)
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Ok, but if you drop practice bombs off a foreign coast and that country or it’s Allie’s have any method of inspection or recovery, it seems likely they would do so.
 
Josh_TN said:
Ok, but if you drop practice bombs off a foreign coast and that country or it’s Allie’s have any method of inspection or recovery, it seems likely they would do so.
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why? Full sized practice bombs are filled with concrete.
 

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