News Story: Zubr class amphibious hovercraft will allow Chinese Navy (PLAN) to quickly access Senkaku Islands

Zubr class Hovercraft (Wiki Info - Image: Wiki Commons)

According to a report broadcast by Shenzhen Television, The new Zubr class amphibious hovercraft recently aquired and built by China will allow the PLAN to quikcly deploy troops to the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea as well as the Spratly islands and Taiwan itself.

The Senkaku Islands, also known as the Diaoyu, Diaoyutai or Pinnacle Islands are a group of uninhabited islands controlled by Japan in the East China Sea. The islands are a contentious issue in the foreign relations between Japan and the PRC and between Japan and Taiwan.

According the television report, setting off from the closest naval facilities in eastern China, the Zubr-class could reach the Senkaku Islands in just three hours.

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