Tom Shugart
Defense analyst, former submariner, pilot. @cnasdc Adjunct Senior Fellow. Founder, Archer Strategic Consulting. Opinions my own. RT=/=endorsement.
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PRC FERRY UPDATE: looks like one of China's PLA-associated vehicle ferries has left its normal routes across the Yellow Sea and is headed for southern China. https://t.co/H3RzjI2lM...
I put up this thread a couple of years ago when I saw some interest and large-scale (or so I thought at the time) dredging on Ream Bay, Cambodia, not too far from the Ream Beach na...
Spent some time looking around at some of China's roll-on/roll-off car carrier terminals - not their car ferry terminals, but the ones they use to load their pure car and truck car...
Pleased to share my update on the state of China's dual-purpose civil-military roll-on/roll-off vessel fleets, including a deeper dive into just how much sealift capacity they coul...
Some nice images showing possible Chinese missile impact testing in western China in mid-2019. Shown are before (5/2019) and after shots of an aircraft target and two bunkers/harde...
This is an interesting thread, and I love seeing some of the old nuclear-powered aircraft designs. That being said, in my first weeks of nuclear power training eons ago, I remembe...
Impressive video that I somehow missed from almost a year ago of a Chinese roll-on/roll-off ferry, Zhong Hua Fu Zing, being loaded as part of a PLA movement exercise. https://t.co/...
Just a reminder that there were folks in 2016 who predicted that China's artificial island bases might just be washed away by typhoons...https://t.co/UJIoyNmcif
Looks like two of China's PLA-associated roll-on/roll-off ferries, BO HAI CUI ZHU and BO HAI JING ZHU, have left their normal routes crossing the Yellow Sea and are now headed towa...
While I might quibble here & there, in general I agree with this article's conclusions that we should: - make maritime strike a priority for the bomber force - ramp-up anti-ship mi...
@AFResearchLab @TeamEglin Hey @AFResearchLab, this statement is a falsehood. Just because a ship gets hit by a torpedo doesn't mean that it knows where that torpedo came from. The...
Hmmm...headline does not appear to actually be what he said. 🤔 He said: “They have a very large navy, and if they want to bully and put ships around Taiwan, they very much can do t...