Posted on 11/27/2013 10:43:46 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
China can devote its GDP to keeping pace.
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While the chickenhawk neo-cons keep pecking that our greatest enemy is Iran while China amasses greater power.
The upside of the new Chinese navy is that it saves the US and Japan on having to buy practice targets.
Already happening. India will have three carriers (first being exGoshkov, the other two locally built) by 2025 and Japan will probably have at least four F-35B capable “helicopter destroyers”. The South Koreans and Aussies will have two similar ships each as well.
This war game strikes me as a classic choke point breakout exercise. I’m guessing it was VERY closely monitored by us, the Taiwanese, Japanese and South Koreans. Telling us a heck of a lot more about ChiCom strategy and tactics than they probably wanted us to know. Remember that the USN used a couple war games (Fleet Problems) in the 20s and 30s to show the possibilities of a Sunday dawn attack on ... Pearl Harbor. Something that a Japanese naval officer named Isoruku Yamamoto (amongst others) studied at great length.
They demonstrated they can break out, now all they need is to figure out how to break back in. They have no tenable offshore base.
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And what’s the purpose of their breakout? To control the sea lanes, or to deny control to others. Denial being much easier to achieve than control.
The Pacific sea lanes are crucial from a economic standpoint, but no so much from a military one. This isn’t the 1970s or 80s when a successful Soviet breakout from the GIUK Gap would endanger our ability to do a REFORGER in the event of a general war.
These days the ChiComs need those sea lanes open much, if not more, than we do.
Yep. Iran has no capability seriously harm the US. China DOES.
Bears repeating, in bold font. What are they going to do far from home, when blocked by allied forces in the Pacific? China is a long way from being a major naval threat.
Those props make that a death trap.
Not to mention Vietnam U-boats alone are able to contain Chicom Navy at this point.
Those two jets on the rear, sorry I’m army, are they balsa wood or what.
From what I’ve read, their jets haven’t made carrier landings yet.
Is that how Harbor Freight is spelled in Chinese?
My mistake in post 18. I was thinking of the newest Chinese J31 I think, that hasn’t had successful carrier landings yet.
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