Fire Breaks Out On China’s Massive First Big-Deck Amphibious Assault Ship

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Chinese Navy Type 075 Amphibious Assault Ship on fire

China’s Type 075 before it was scorched by today’s fire.

Warzone/The Drive: Fire Breaks Out On China’s Massive New Type 075 Amphibious Assault Ship

The blaze struck while the ship was tied up to the pier at Hudong–Zhonghua Shipbuilding in Shanghai.

China’s first big-deck amphibious assault ship, a huge vessel that was built in a miraculously short amount of time, caught fire on Saturday, April 11th, 2020. Photos and video showing the ship billowing large clouds of black smoke hit Chinese social media earlier in the day. The warship, which is the first of the new Type 075 class, was resting alongside the pier at its birthplace, Hudong–Zhonghua Shipbuilding in Shanghai, when the blaze broke out.

You can and should read all about the Type 075 and why it is a major accomplishment for the rapidly expanding People’s Liberation Army Navy in this past piece of ours.

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