PRC Peoples Liberation Army Navy

[John Fedup]

Given the Ukraine's success with naval drones against the Russian navy, perhaps Taiwan's investment in naval drones may force China to re-assess/delay their invasion plans albeit the PLAN is likely very superior to the Russian navy (submarine force excepted).

Taiwan's New Naval Drones Could Strike Any Chinese Invasion - Naval News

 

[Volkodav]

In the last few days an incident occurred where a Chinese destroyer collided with a Chinese coast guard ship, while both were harrassing a filipino fishing boat and a filipino coast guard ship. After the collision, the PH CG ship offered medical assistance to the Chinese ships, with no reply.

What I want to point out though is the damage to the destroyer......is consisted of a few scratches and a dent. The Chinese CG ship's bow was completely crushed, in contrast. you can google search this easily.

There have been several high profile collisions in the last few years involving western ships, most of which show major damage and several being declared non salvageable.

The point is- western ships have thin steel shells and it looks like China has possibly decided to improve survivability with thicker/stronger ships.

I toured a Spruance class destroyer years ago and one of the crew mentioned she'd been involved in a collision and couldn't use any of her forward armament until she had a complete refit because of misalignment cause by the impact.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese destroyer has more damage than is apparent.

 

[Redshift]

I toured a Spruance class destroyer years ago and one of the crew mentioned she'd been involved in a collision and couldn't use any of her forward armament until she had a complete refit because of misalignment cause by the impact.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese destroyer has more damage than is apparent.

Many countries and Navies would, understandably, not make this public (except the UK because the Daily Telegraph would make it a front page headline) but China and the PLAN would most likely lock anyone up who even breathed a word about such news. They probably still view the coastguard vessel as operational

 

[Sandhi Yudha]

I toured a Spruance class destroyer years ago and one of the crew mentioned she'd been involved in a collision and couldn't use any of her forward armament until she had a complete refit because of misalignment cause by the impact.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Chinese destroyer has more damage than is apparent.

Imagine the misalignment of the systems on board the coastguard vessel.
Maybe even sensitive navigation systems like the INS have to be replaced, the deceleration really had to be very abrupt.