Up front, I say I don't believe there is a supernatural power or an afterlife or whatever. I believe when we die, we die. Our brain stops functioning and what makes us what we are ends with it.
I don't believe anything...In that regard. Any, and i mean any supposition on my part is wild guess work, same for anyone else.
Hittting a moving ship on the surface of the sea is a far cry from training sights on a rail-bound mockup. Actually scoring a hit with "carrier killers" is much more like throwing rocks at cats in a stadium from the parking lot. Currently, the notion is that they simply fire dozens or even scores of missiles per target in the hope of landing a hit. With conventional warheads, this is nothing more than a nuissance, giving the US military an excuse to destroy the entire PLA posture in mere hours with little more than SEAD sorties and tomahawks. Look it up, US ships can take direct hits.
It's one of many reasons why I think China will focus on central Asia and it's resources, the stans to their east where they already have a railroad built. Russia's sudden demise as a global player has left a vacuum in central and eastern Asia and it appears the Russian empire/federation could dissolve. China can take advantage of this situation using soft power, following the British and American models. Buy the government and exploit the resources including cheap labor by owning the mines and factories. I think China's neighborhood to the east and north is gonna be a busy place in the next decade with political change and the dissolution of Russia as we know it. The war in Ukraine will be changing the map in east Asia too.
This looks like work in the Philippines, good jobs perhaps.
I'll be 1st. to admit that carrier aviation is a area where the US has huge advantage's in numbers and experience. I believe China can deploy 3 aircraft carriers w/the caveat that 2 of them are Soviet era conversions that the Chinese completely overhauled and only carry 28 jets I think. The Fujian you mentioned is their 1st domestically produced carrier and is about the size of our pre-Nimitz class of carriers. China's doctrine is not to have a carrier vs. carrier engagement. They are into "area denial", in which their ever improving missile fleet threatens our carriers to the extent of a 1200 mile buffer at this moment w/their current capability and they are working hard to push that area out even more in the future. One of the areas the Chinese excel in is missile developement,remember they invented gun powder and all those fireworks we enjoy. At this moment they have the pl-15 air to air missile which outranges anything in the west,their anti-ship version of our subsonic harpoon missile goes supersonic in its terminal phase making it extremely difficult to engage,these are just a few examples. It's no ones fault that our armed forces spent over 15 yrs, reconfiguring itself for the war on terror and the end of the Cold war also took away our focus on peer to peer conflict causing some of our weapon systems to atrophy over time and delay developement of their replacements. China kept their heads down and used this time wisely and are now a formidable adversary.So far they have a total of one flat-top for fixed wing aircraft.
Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian - Wikipedia
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Hope you're right,I'd be more inclined to think we'd try to exploit our advantage with our SSN's to deal w/the Chinese navy,confidence is good,over confidence?
When was the last time Putin got permission to poison from poinsonee or is that different? Maybe something will put a smile on that smug face. I'm not a proponent of drugging people without their knowledge.
What are you talking about?
Also,I haven't seen you comment on this thread before,glad your here, I enjoy your insightful input.
What I'm talking about is I hope you're right about the inaccuracy of Chinese missiles,I hope your right that our ships can take hits,Ihope your right that we would annihilate the Chinese in a confrontation over Taiwan, and I think our biggest advantage is in submarine warfare presently as I think it would do the most damage with the least risk in lives and treasure,the over confidence thing refers to the fact that I respect my adversary and never underestimate them,hubris can kill.
I've been saying that 50-75 years from now, eastern Russia will be part of China proper or at the very least satellite countries. The folks who live their are ethnic Chinese anyway. Lots of Russians have been moved in to blunt that, but still most folks there are not European.
The US forces are modeled on the need to fight Russia, China and a smaller power at the same time. This is not talked about much because folks might start thinking we spend too much on defense. A popular saying among those of us who would like to see just a little of that money plowed back into America for the good of it's people. . . . .
I don't think they will take over any former Russian territory in a political sense, such empires often break up along administrative lines and the autonomous republics and regions will end up as new countries economically tied to China. Before that though they will/are in central Asia and have already given security assurances to Kazakhstan which stretches from their eastern border and the Caspian sea, with it's oil and gas. Several Stans lie to the south of it and it cuts Russia off from access there. The US and EU are coming to the Caspian from the west, promoting peace and pipelines in Georgia now that the Russians are busy elsewhere.
China is a lot like a sailor I served with on the Saipan. His name was Pace, but we all called him Bulkhead. He was a big fuck, and would use pain to bully those below him into doing his work, and suck up to anyone above him in rank.