Chinese exercise showcasing new amphibious landing craft. As seen, the vessels interconnect, enabling faster landings on narrower beaches—a common feature of Taiwan’s coastline. In recent years, China has placed special focus on developing amphibious assault ships. The objective is clear: Taiwan.

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Wtf is that ship

Video has surfaced of the Chinese barges tailor-made for allowing easy ship-to-shore transfer of supplies to a location without proper docking facilities. The barges, first noticed in a Chinese port a number of months ago, are commonly compared to the “Mulberry Harbors” during follow-on operations after D-Day.

The barge’s military applications are obvious and would allow for follow-on forces and sustainment efforts in a Taiwan invasion scenario once a deep beachhead was established by any Chinese invasion force. However, given the nature of Taiwan’s available beaches and the susceptibility of the barges to precision strikes, it still remains to be seen how effective these barges might be in such a scenario.

A clearer image has now been posted on Weibo, of China’s “Mulberry Harbors” connected during a recent amphibious-landing exercise by the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) on the coast of the South China Sea, which have likely been tailor-made for a future invasion of Taiwan.