Posted on 05/31/2023 10:38:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
They can build ships but they don’t have a crew who knows what to do with them.
Mutually Assured Destruction.
What I know is that their missiles used to use GPS to travel to targets, until they realized that in a conflict with the US we can just shut down their access to GPS and their missiles would all fly blind.
So they scrambled to build their own satellite positioning system which launched a couple of years ago called “Northstar”. Except everything I’ve heard is that Northstar is far inferior to GPS, for one its signal is not as reliable, it doesn’t cover the entire globe but only East Asia, its positional accuracy is far less than GPS.
They forced trucker in China to switch from GPS to Northstar and the truckers complain constantly about dropped signals etc with the system. Can you imagine relying on that kind of system to fly nuclear warheads?
Crews are reusable. Crews can be trained.
Training people takes years, and who’s training them in China?
Plus constructing battleships requires ship yards on the coast, which can easily be bombed by the US.
China has never won a naval conflict with any foreign power, they aren’t winning their first one against the US. Heck like I said, Japan would wipe the floors with the just like they did a century ago if the US allowed it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.