5d ago

Chinese warship crashes into own coastguard vessel while chasing Philippine boat in South China Sea

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https://i.imgur.com/TAODojQ.mp4
Video of the collision, there were people on the bow of the coast guard vessel immediately before impact.
- Holy shit the whole fuckin bow is gone. Those people are dead for sure.
  
  Huh. The front fell off.
  
  Is this the so amazing chinese navy the botniks tell us about everywhere?
  
  They were hanging out a fender.
  Unbelievable.
Hopefully some of those Chinese sailors got hurt or died. No sympathy for authoritarian bullies. We have enough people in this world without fretting over the safety and security of jackboot thugs.
- Celebrating other people's death is always a bit awful but these chinese sailors are violating the sovereignity of another country for their own nations imperial ambitions. They're just as bad as ruzzians.
The video I saw of the collision showed crew members out on the bow of the coast guard vessel hanging a fender over the bow, seconds before the bow just disappeared.
I hope they're okay, but I saw a post showing tracking data of a number of Chinese vessels doing a search pattern, so I don't think they were.
- They're most likely pulp. The amount of crush on the bow, coupled with the size of the hole in the other ship.... Yeah not much hospitable place for a squishy human to be.
- I hope they're okay
  How nice of you
The maritime equivalent of the snake game
Yakity Sax

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