Container Ship Turned Extensive Missile Battery Spotted In China!

James Kaufman, World News Report, today. Container ship turned into missile battery spotted in China. China has released pictures of what is believed to be container ship has been turned into a huge missile battery. Experts at the Pentagon were trying to figure out if the ship was real or if it was computer generated. Although satellite photos have confirmed it is in fact real. The question is, why would China show this off to the West and the world? Some experts at the Pentagon believe it's a physical mockup with non-working batteries, but that makes little sense because everything shown here in the released pictures is something we know China has mastered. The Chinese container vessel is fitted with containerized VLSs. You may know them as Club K container missile systems, but Club Ks come from Russia. It's also fitted with containerized sensors, as well as high-end radar, decoy launchers, and a CIWS, or close-in weapon system, towards the bow. Early on Christmas Day, images of a Chinese shipping vessel carrying several containerized vertical launch cell systems appeared online. The basis of the vessel in question appears to be a standard civilian container carrier, further augmented with radars, vertical launch systems, and other systems. Naval News was able to independently confirm the existence of the vessel, As satellite images show at present in Shanghai currently, the otherwise unremarkable vessel features several sets of containerized vertical launch cells, numbering at least 48, split into three rows of 16 in what appears to be four cells per container, with each row four containers wide. The vessel in question is also fitted with a Type 1130 close-in weapon system and at least three decoy launchers visible, but presumably six, accounting for the possibility of mountings facing the opposite direction towards the bow. Sensors have also been fitted within shipping containers, in addition to carry decoys and weaponry with both sensors mounted towards the bridge to the stern of the ship. A Type 344 fire control radar is visible in the foreground as the array is a standard PLAN sensor built for guided radar-controlled guns of various calibers up to the 130mm, which are usually found on the destroyers. An unknown flat-faced, likely AESA array is also mounted slightly to the port in one container higher in height relative to the Type 344 fire control radar, possibly for additional air search or missile guidance capabilities. that scene right here. At present, types of missiles to be carried still remains largely a mystery. Although the VLS cells housed within the containers are likely to be able to fire the standard suite of Chinese anti-ship and land attack missiles, munitions could potentially include the already ship-borne CJ-10 land attack cruise missile, the YJ-18 series of anti-ship land attack cruise missiles and the YJ-21 anti-ship ballistic missiles. The container ship's capability to leverage surface-to-air missiles is also presently unknown, although the capability may be present if the GJB-5860-2006 universal launch system and cells are used, potentially allowing for the use of the HHQ-9 series of SAM missiles. Several militaries around the world now field these Club K-type missile systems. The Club K was specifically developed by Russia. The U.S. also has similar capabilities like Lockheed Martin's MK-70 Mod 1 containerized vertical launch system. The MK-70 utilizes four strike-length vertical launch cells housed in a large container, granting the ability to fire munitions such as the RIM-156 SM-3, the RIM-174 SM-6, and Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles from land or sea platforms. Now, let's hope the MK-70 is real, because it took some doing to get this picture of one. We all know that money goes missing and nothing gets done at the U.S. Pentagon. We do, in fact, have this system, although it doesn't look like a container much to me. It won't tell us what type of system this is, but we do know that this was a test fire by the USS Silvana LCS-28 and they conducted live fire demonstrations in the Pacific with these container-style weapons. Again, not the true Club K of what we see in China at all. The U.S. Army also claims to have developed a smaller system featuring the ability to fire two MR pods out of a standard size container shorter than the MK-70 or the container batteries like the Club K or the ones seen on this Chinese container ship. I don't know if that's true or false. I'll show you a couple more pictures real quick. I guess the real question is not if these are real. It's how many are out there and where they're located. Scary when you see a picture of a large shipyard and the tens of thousands of containers one may see at any large shipyard around the country or around the globe now i believe that this is the close-in weapon system here these are the decoy uh fires here i think there's probably more than this of course this is the uh well fire radar at least one of them not the new one probably that is well something that we don't have yet so merry christmas i guess that that's what china was telling us right welcome to 2026 this could be at any shipyard in the u.s or any shipyard around the world and you would never know it i've got to jump back to why why would china show a system like this off to the world on Christmas Day god bless folks please don't try to take this container ship hostage uh i know that you think you're a pirate now Pete but this is not the ship to jump aboard please share make sure to give us a thumbs up guys and always remember that anything's possible bizarro world god bless you all