CGI from earlier this year
Posted on 10/05/2017 12:25:45 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
CGI from earlier this year
That’s a lot of VLS cells.
Looks like they’r making good use of the missile tech Bill Clinton sold to them.
I see the Chinese are calling it a Cruiser.
If this were a western ship it would be a "corvette" or some such nonsense to please the handwringers in the legislatures.
"Frigate" sounds less expensive and scary than "Cruiser" or "Battlecruiser".
You shoot one cruise missile and hour later you feel like shooting more.
In before the anti CVN crazies.
Most importantly how easy is it to kill?
sink it or totally wreck its topsides?
Alone, the Japanese Navy could defeat the Chinese Navy.
Fairly quickly.
Did they use harbor freight tools to assemble it?
Yeah, but can they crash into freighters with the accuracy and frequency like ours?
At 10,000 tons, we’d call it a destroyer.
With vertical launch you get egg roll.
At the start of any war you know that the US will have three priorities: one will be to eliminate any known Chinese satellites and air bases in China and around the world. The US Navy will first focus on sinking every Chinese vessel that it can find with a focus on known Chinese missile-capable ships and submarines. After the start of hostilities the lifespan of their aircraft carriers will be measured in minutes, not hours. The ChiComs will be swept from the seas while missiles and bombs destroy any Chinese port facilities, naval yards, and army/air force bases. Their navy will effectively be gone in under 3 days and the Chinese ability to project force outside of China will be neutered.
Couldn’t we have moved our manufacturing to India or the P.I. over the last few decades?
Ya, but could you get a Pinoy to put down the booze long enough to actually work a shift?
All that, and only a single rudder. Go fig.
Looks like a fairly competent design, overall. Huzzah for the new naval arms race!
Why? Well, for one the frenetic development that the Chinese military has gone through. However, there is another metric - what I call the 'FR statements of certainty.' Examples include a FReeper saying Avatar would be a commercial fop when it was first released. As pertains to China, 15 years ago several FReepers would claim that China would never have the capability to cross the 180 km wide Formosa Strait to attack Taiwan. They were absolutely adamant, based on the fact that at the time the Chinese did not have a proper naval mass transport capability. That was 15 years ago.
In ten years the only navy that will be a challenge to China will be the USN, and the gap will be closer than any of us dare believe today.
What kind of mindset do you have? Couldn’t we have moved our manufacturing back here where it belongs? MAGA.
” I truly believe that in another ten years the Japanese navy will not be a match for the Chinese.”
That is as much up to the Japanese as the Chinese.
When WWII started they had the best Navy in the world. It was only because they could not continue to build that they lost the war. We cut them down to a few ships and they couldn’t build more.
We could apply the same principal to the USN. It’s up to us.
It isn’t how many ships they have now, its how many they can crank out in an emergency.
Hi.
It’s not the size of the “member,” that matters, but how you use it that counts.
5.56mm
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