Taiwan navy’s new amphibious vessel ‘no match to PLA counterpart, of minimal threat’
Liu Xuanzun Published: Apr 14, 2021 06:04 PM
The amphibious dock landing ships Wuzhishan (Hull 987), Kunlunshan (Hull 998) and Changbaishan (Hull 989) attached to a landing ship flotilla with the navy under the PLA Southern Theater Command steam alongside in waters of the South China Sea during a maritime training exercise on November 18, 2020. The exercise lasted four days, focusing on 10 subjects including comprehensive defense, Landing Craft Air Cushion s (LCAC) transfer, visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) operation, and live-fire operations. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Liu Jian)
The island of Taiwan launched its first 10,000 ton-class amphibious landing ship on Tuesday, a move Chinese mainland experts said on Wednesday will only add to the rising military tensions in the Taiwan Straits.
The Coast Guard kept searching for 12 people missing off the coast of Louisiana on Wednesday, hours after six other crew members were pulled from rough seas
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On their first date ten years ago in a French restaurant in Pittsburgh, John Kudlik and Susan Showalter, both part Irish, discovered they had something in common. John, a historian, is the great-great-grandson of Daniel Dowd, a farmer who came to America on the
Jeanie Johnston in 1849. When he told Susan his family was from a town in Country Kerry called Ballymacelligot, she said, “You’re not going to believe this, but it is the ancestral home of the Babbingtons,” her mother’s family.
Several booked into LaGrange County Jail
LAGRANGE â Several people were booked into the LaGrange County Jail from Tuesday, April 6, through Monday, April 12, according to jail records.
Joshua Williams, 40, of the 10600 block of East C.R. 750S, Wolcottville, was arrested Tuesday, April 6, by LaGrange County police on a warrant charging a revocation of community corrections.
Ryan Childers, 32, of the 00 block of East Water Drive North, Garrett, was arrested Tuesday, April 6, by LaGrange County police on a charge of nonsupport of a dependent.
Ruben Barajas, 67, of the 500 block of Sixth Street, Howe, was booked Tuesday, April 6, to serve a sentence relating to an original charge of operating while intoxicated.
The cargo vessel that blocked global shipping in the Suez Canal and is caught in a legal dispute in Egypt is fit to sail once approval is given, its technical manager said on Wednesday.