What is this gun?

[Hastur]

The ship is a Chineese Type 072III-class landing ship (NATO designation Yuting-II class) nr. 936 and goes by the name 海洋山 (Haiyang Shan).

Normally it has a twin 37mm gun in the bow but this one has gotten something new.





Normal configuration



Any cool theories about what they are up to? is it a railgun? Those containers could be the power supply.

Anyone here read chinese?

[Hastur]

Closeup

[Montegriffo]

Seems likely.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18 ... ic-railgun

[The Conservative]

It's made in China... it shoots a few times and needs to be replaced because it's voided its warranty for being used more than for just show.

[C-Mag]

That Naval shit is out of league

[Smitty-48]

The US Navy has already begun to abandon its plans for a railgun, $500 million spent, not anywhere close to being operational, another rube goldberg device MIC boondoggle to be cast upon the scrap heap of cost inefficiency.

Putting aside the fact that, strategically, the whole concept of war by bigger, faster firing, longer ranged guns; was proven to be folly in the First World War, the guns themselves also became too clever by half, so expensive and fraught with complexity, that not only did they not win the war, they bankrupted the co-belligerents in the process.

[Speaker to Animals]

That's my problem with most of our defense spending. Too complex. These are vulnerabilities.

KISS.

I like a lot of Russian gear precisely because they get it (although some of their shit seems overly complex, especially their air defense systems).

[Smitty-48]

Any attempt by the Chinese to achieve decision by firepower would likely result exactly as it did for the Germans in the First World War, firepower stalemate, up to and including hydrogen bombs, followed by American led international naval blockade for the win, railguns et al; no stick there, strategic waste of time, effort, and money.

[Speaker to Animals]

I always suspected they are working on exploits against our own cylon bullshit.

Cyberwarfare, EMP, etc.

No point trying to go all Clausewitz against the US. It's more feasible for them to to exploit all these vulnerabilities.

[Smitty-48]

What's the rush? They've got all the time in the world, every Hegemon has an arc, just sit back, bide your time, and America will bring itself down from within, giving America a foreign threat to rally against is counterproductive, left to their own devices, Americans will turn upon themselves.