"Send it to the Gulf of Mexico!": The Internet praised the new Chinese UDC.

November 16, 2025 4 061 2

YouTube users have commented on a video from the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) about the sea trials of the Chinese Type 076 amphibious assault ship, named Sichuan.

The UDC of this project has a displacement of up to 50,000 tons, a single electromagnetic catapult, and arresting gear, expected to accommodate heavy UAVs. Its dimensions significantly exceed those of the previous Type 075 project (four ships in service).

Not long before, the aircraft carrier Fujian, also equipped with electromagnetic catapults, was commissioned on Hainan Island in China.

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The stronger China is, the more peaceful the United States is.

The largest landing ship ever built, as well as the first drone carrier and the first landing ship equipped with electromagnetic catapults.

Perhaps it's time for a little "freedom of navigation" tour in the Gulf of Mexico, just to make up for all the past.

These aren't just drones, but also amphibious assault vessels, for example, for capturing islands. The upper deck houses an electromagnetic catapult for launching fixed-wing fighters and airborne early warning and electronic warfare aircraft. Internally, it can carry two hovercraft similar to the Zubr for landing troops, as well as up to 1000 marines... yes, it can carry drones and attack helicopters. China uses this ship for Taiwan and the South China Sea.

There will be no war between China and the United States. The latter has never attacked any country with a capable military. The United States only chooses the weak. China will achieve peace through strength.

Then it's no longer a landing ship, but simply a drone carrier. Landing ships are designed for landing troops and the technique ashore, supporting them in combat, and landing helicopters or landing craft from the deck. China confuses the types of missions and seems to have no understanding of how landing ships are actually used.

The world has never valued morality; respect can only be earned by force.

Looks like it will rust in a few years.

Larger than the Charles de Gaulle and the Indian Vikrant. And equipped with an electromagnetic catapult.

They slap aircraft carriers like sausages. Respect to the Chinese.

Could this be used in a real war? We'll see. Chinese aircraft are much better quality than Indian toys. At the same time, any country can intimidate, for example, the Philippine army; it doesn't even require the PLA's might.

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16 November 2025 21: 17

A big country, big opportunities, big ships... But the 21st century is reaching its zenith, and the rays of new weapons won't burn these beauties. It would even be a shame when the whales die... In peacetime, they are thunderous and impressive, but in the turbulent times of war, it's a different story.... In war, the first to go after the big targets, and they die...
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  16 November 2025 23: 34
  
  Let nothing happen to him! The Chinese are brave guys; they have quantitative and, now, qualitative superiority.
  Many people threaten the Americans, but they won't budge; even the Kremlin is scared, although, due to "Soviet inertia", it still "claims super-powerful status".
  China and the United States will divide the world between themselves and will "hegemonize" themselves, just as the USSR and the United States "hegemonized" before.
  And then we'll see, maybe the Chinese will be able to find and "secretly bring to the top" in Washington their sellouts like the "Gorbachev-Yakovlev gang" and the "Yeltsinoids."
  But the Americans have already seen plenty of this underhanded business; they could pull the same prank on communist Beijing that they pulled on communist Moscow. It's a matter of who'll "get the better of the other one"!
  And Russia, if it survives more or less intact after the outcome of the adventure with the North-East, must think hard about who to "partner" with; it can't "sit on two chairs"!
  The Russian Federation has too much territory and the potential to “strengthen” one or another “hegemon”!
  Neither external forces nor comprador internal ones will allow Russia, in its current "disassembled state" and petty "elites," to become a "hegemon" (and they don't even have such goals, only pompous "puffing up of the cheeks" to create the appearance of a "competitive advantage" in the trade of natural resources and defending a "small share" in their joint "business development" with TNCs-transnational corporations).
  Therefore, Moscow will be offered an "either-or" choice, and the Kremlin will no longer be able to "catch" them; they will have to "decide" (and I see it this way - I predict that in the current situation of choice, which is not long away, "bourgeois" Moscow will choose the United States as its "partner" against the "hegemony" of China)!
  IMHO