Thursday, December 16, 2010

Photo of the day.

Gun Boat Diplomacy, PLA Style.

9 comments:

Steven said...

whats the story behind this image?

totoro said...

time to break this super long blog into different web pages. the loading of the page has become very sluggish.

jxz said...

Hard to imagine the ground-based artillery can shoot with accuracy on a rocky boat. After all, they were designed to shoot from a steady ground.

Joseph said...

Photo itself is real but I believe the shots are PSed on.

Sean Xu said...

Looks real. Check out the fired shell behind the Guns.

Joseph said...

Not saying it isn't taking part in firing, just not at the time this photo is taken.

The flash and smoke all looks very similar, and it is nearly impossible to time the shots so that you get the three shells leaving the barrel simultaneously.

The flare behind the rockets don't look real.

Coatepeque said...

The point is not the photo is real is not, it is about the usage of civilian cargo ship as fire support platform to support an amphibious operation.

Coatepeque said...

> time to break this super long blog into different web pages. the loading of the page has become very sluggish.

Changed the archive settings to weekly. Hope this helps.

totoro said...

@Coatepeque thanks, much better now.