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Jason_ said:
What is insane about it is that the authors propose to use helicopter, drone and ferry ships insteads of docks to unload container ships as a way to save cost. Except that:
1. No helicopter or drone currently can lift a 40 ton container (Mi-26, the largest helicopter in the world, can lift 20t)
2. A helicopter or drone capable of carrying a multi-ton payload would have to be turboshaft powered and therefore extremely expensive to acquire and operate
3. A helicopter or drone can lift one container at a time when a large ship can carry tens of thousands of containers and is thus extremely inefficient
4. In the diagram, the containers seem to magically teleport from the large ship into the smaller ferry

This is obviously a terrible idea from an engineering/logistics/economics/physics point of view. Which shows how detached from reality these "strategists" that work for think tanks are. And is it any surprise the rationale for this absurd plan is to "counter China?"
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The USA should first solve the tiny problem of 3 train derailments a day. After decades of neglect and making everything a legal blackhole they have many low hanging apples to collect in infrastructure.

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BoraTas said:
The USA should first solve the tiny problem of 3 train derailments a day. After decades of neglect and making everything a legal blackhole they have many low hanging apples to collect in infrastructure.

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The graph did a great job fooling me on the first look. I thought "Oh at least they managed to cut the derailments by more than half." Then I realized that the baseline is 900 not zero!
 
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supersnoop said:
If it was a LLM Generated article trained on typical Indian media articles, there would be 15 quotes from "Air Marshals" about how the stealth of the J-20 has an inferior radar signature to even the Su-30MKI
Rafale with Meteor can wipe out J-10 from Pakistan and China
Chinese copies of Su-27/30 are inferior copies since India has the original Russian specification
etc. etc.

These are all real claims from actual Indian media, not just a blogger. He actually doesn't make those kinds of outrageous claims. He is absolutely correct that IAF was technologically superior than PLAAF prior to the 90's. I'm not saying this is a good article (for example he totally ignores the far greater number of AWACS and EW aircraft of PLAAF), but I think an AI article would actually be much much worse.
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Very debatable how superior IAF was vs PLAAF in 1980's.

IAF had ~300 Mig-21s (air superiority), ~40 Mig-23MF (air superiority), ~90 Mig-23BNs (fighter bombers), ~250 Hawker Hunters (1st gen 1940's jets), and had just received 36 Mirage-2000s, their first order of 4th gen jets in history, in 1985.

Basically ~400 3rd gen or better air superiority aircraft.

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Su-30 MKI was still 15 years away.

In 1985 China had something like 2000+ J-7s and 300+ J-8s. Unlike Indian Mig-21s which were vintage Soviet that they couldn't even maintain themselves, China had fully mastered J-7 and even built the J-7E redesign in 1987.

So India in 1980's still had no chance. They didn't have a qualitative edge and had a massive quantitative disadvantage.

In the 90's, China imported S-300s (1993) and Su-27s (1992) before India imported Su-30 MKI (2002).

So there was never a time when India could beat China in the air.
 
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