Both the Russians and the Chinese have plans to add significant amphibious capabilities to their navies. It will be interesting to see whether the force structures and afloat capabilities of their navies/naval infantry/marine forces evolve to give them the sea based maintenance and sustainment capabilities required for true out-of-area amphibious operations.
For example, will enough squadrons of this new Ka-52 attack helicopter variant be acquired so that the capability can be maintained afloat continuously? Ditto for afloat aviation maintenance and the number of helicopter landing ships as well. Since the strategic situations and force projection requirements of the Russians and Chinese are different from the United States, the manifestations of their amphibious doctrine can be expected to differ as well. However, once deployed, there are immutable physical and operational realities that come to bear. The interesting part is how each operator, reflecting their own cultural, political, military and fiscal realities, decides to organize, equip and train to create the desired capability.
ATGMs with a 20km range?
Woohoo!
We should be developing assets like that.