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2020-04-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

A fire broke out on China's massive new Type 075 amphibious assault ship

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Posted by 3dc 2020-04-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Unattended Horseshoe Bat BBQ wok burner ?

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-11 07:36|| 2020-04-11 07:36|| Front Page Top

#2 ...If I were a betting man, I'd say an undermanned work force working through illness and panic.

But I'm sure it's saboteurs and wreckers.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-04-11 08:13|| 2020-04-11 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Live damage control practice followed by live repair turn around practice? There is no substitute for hands on training when learning a new skill.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-11 08:53|| 2020-04-11 08:53|| Front Page Top

#4 When China and the US were letting each other tour their ships years ago, a couple sailors I knew said the Chinese had a very minimal to no knowledge of fire fighting and damage control. They still have a very caste like system where only the lowest are trained in those activities.

The US learned the hard way in early WW2 that every sailor was a fire fighter and damage control worker and all of our boys and girls are trained in it.

Estimates from those sailors on the survival of a Chinese ship that was hit was poor, where a western naval ship would be able to survive and get back to port while being able to fight.

From what little we can see of the pics, the fire fighting skill of the people there was very poor and it looks like the fire spread pretty well along most of the ship.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-11 09:16|| 2020-04-11 09:16|| Front Page Top

#5 ...sometimes we forget too and have to relearn lessons from the past.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-11 09:29|| 2020-04-11 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 CNN: China demonstrates latest superweapon - "Fist of Heaven's Mandate Fireship".

Posted by Mercutio 2020-04-11 10:17|| 2020-04-11 10:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Result of Space Force test firing of its orbital battle station (That's no Moon!)

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-04-11 10:28|| 2020-04-11 10:28|| Front Page Top

#8 Bad, bad China - look at that carbon footprint! AOC's gonna be pissed at you guys ~~not~~ !

Posted by Raj 2020-04-11 10:57|| 2020-04-11 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Ref #7: Result of Space Force test firing of its orbital battle station (That's no Moon!)

'One shot, one kill.' Planned PLA invasion of Formosa on administrative hold.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-11 11:03|| 2020-04-11 11:03|| Front Page Top

#10 most Chinese are incapable of independent thought, the kind all Americans take for granted

Posted by 746 2020-04-11 15:03|| 2020-04-11 15:03|| Front Page Top

#11 ..what I noticed is that they are often locked into linear thought patterns. That they're very good at. There is less ability to 'think outside the box' or make intuitive jumps in logic or reasoning.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-11 15:31|| 2020-04-11 15:31|| Front Page Top

#12 Shorter conversation I had with a China Strong!

CS: China was making noodles for a 1000 years before the Italians!

Me: So why do the Italians have 1000 types of pasta, and China is still eating the same noodle?

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-11 15:49|| 2020-04-11 15:49|| Front Page Top

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