Holy shit, that’s horrific.

Not much more than a couple of uninhabited rocks, they were mostly used as navigational markers in the past.

Can/do planes skip if they don’t have sufficient power?

...a catapult-launched birdman rally.....

I live in an area 300km from the nearest worthwhile military target, in a city too small to be worth targeting directly. Most groceries and food supplies come from three thousand kilometres away and he soils and rainfall here is far too poor to grow anything in.

Reckon just paint this thing green, hang a couple of scary pipes on it and just have it wander along the DMZ.

The HMAS Arunta is named for an Aboriginal tribe in the dead centre of the continent...

We’re invading on Saturday so we get another public holiday.

The natural resources of the area are a bonus but are not key to the Chinese claim. They were suspected but the technology to extract didn’t exist in 1947 when it was first published. These islands are about controlling sea lanes, particularly those to Japan, allowing China to potentially blockade their greatest and…

That autoloader looks like a pain the the butt.

What’s the likelihood that the hull shape and modified design could be fitted for an AIP system and Diesel engine? The biggest problem with the design, as pointed out in the comments, has been the reactor. Why not skip that part?

OMG I’m in range!

The warhead is dodgy but has potential but the rocket is a no-go for delivery. How likely is it that there’s a tunnel to Seoul that a warhead carrying truck can drive through?

Maybe a monitor? Flat deck on the back to launch a couple of UAVs, missile well in the front deck, big fuck-off gun in the middle.

I think that the Russians have already started that process with Club-Ks.

That does look pretty cool...

When oh when will someone cater for my demographic?

And here’s one of the Japanese sinking two Chinese aircraft carriers...