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Phead128

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Sardaukar20 said:
And this route is not even optimized.
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This is the exact reason why California HSR failed, it took a detour to satisfy different politicians counties, out in middle of nowhere. Route highly unoptimized, only to gain politician favors. Costs skyrocketed from $35B to $130B with no end in sight.

This Europe-Middle East-India is doing the exact same thing, detours to satisfy Saudi, UAE, and Israel interests which would make it super costly and never completed on top. Also likely not economically competitive to Suez route.

They are so desperate, it's hilarious
 
FairAndUnbiased

FairAndUnbiased

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james smith esq said:
Too many Chinese think like merchants and too many diaspora Chinese are patriots in words only; they’re actually most loyal to their corporate masters for giving them their highly-valued engineering and tech jobs!
As much as it pains me to say so, to me, it seems that China has already lost this great competition, based, solely on its integration into the dominating economic order. I doubt that it will ever achieve separation sufficient to politico-economic independence. In fact, despite this being what it absolutely needs, I don’t believe this is what China actually wants.

For one, China really needs to re-think its emphasis on verticality, in everything. Stacking millions of people into gruesome uber-vertical tenements is no way to create domestic demand for the many, varied, products that China produces. With my driveway, walkway, front-yard, front-porch, backyard, patio, and garage (like everybody in my neighborhood, and most in my city), I create more demand for Chinese products than any but the highest-class of Chinese. Why not take advantage of the incredible transportation tech that’s been developed and build some horizontal cities in some of that empty space in central-China? With all that high-speed rail tech, folks could easily commute to the nearest profit-generating centers. Emphasize the building of houses, not goddamn apartments! Houses with porches and patios filled with furniture, yards with gardens and with swings for kids, gazebos with strings of lights and lawn furniture, and surrounded by fences, garages filled with lawn-care products and tools for all kinds of projects and bikes for the kids, and for the family, to ride!

Stop being the goddamn merchant to the world and focus on being the merchant to China!
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There is no empty space in central China.

If you drive through central China, Henan and Hubei in particular, you will never see any open fields with nothing in them. All the fields are already owned and being worked.

China isn't the US. Central China has been inhabited since 30000 BC, been a culture since 7000 BC and a civilization since 1600 BC. Nobody got killed off completely. Every inch of land that could be used, has already been used, fought over and used again multiple times.

China is already the biggest market for non plastic junk items. One other country is still #1 in plastic junk though.
 
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ACuriousPLAFan

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vincent said:
USVs don’t need crew quarters, cafeteria, kitchen, warehouse nor working areas. Those spaces can be used to store fuel. 056 size ship can have pretty good range.
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We do still need considerable size of personnel (or a skeleton crew, at the very least) onboard, - Not just for daily upkeep and man-in-the-loop duties - But most importantly, damage control.

At present (and for at least much of this decade), I don't think that large-sized USVs (that are in the high-hundreds of tons and above) are entirely capable of conducting damage control effectively without human supervision and intervention - Considering how complex and intricate damage control can actually get, whereby even a seemingly unnoticeable leak from just a few pipes could risk capsizing an entire ship if no action is executed in time to address it.

In the meantime - Sure, it is entirely possible for China to replicate Sa'ar 6 corvettes of the Israeli Navy (which has 32x Barak 8 SAMs, 40x C-Dome CIWS and 16x Gabriel V AShMs) for service with the PLAN. But, the Israeli Navy is facing a very different operational and threat environment than the PLAN.

Therefore, if we want to fit 054A/B-like weaponry loadout (plus other kinds of systems) on a 056-sized hull, significant compromises has to be made - And that's not just with the ship crew.

Or, conversely - Build that warship with a bigger dimension and a larger displacement.
 
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martinwagner

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ficker22 said:
In Germany it is not much better since the greens tenure, I know 3rd gen vietnamnese (!) who are CO in the Bundeswehr that didn't get advanced security clearance because they were in Vietnam before (!) they joined the army.... But he needed one to become a pilot.

Prob looked to much like a chinese.

So now they do some bullshit position but dude wanted to fly A400M...

3-4 years ago such problems weren't existent.
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Any plans for you to leave Germany and head for greener pastures?
 
vincent

vincent

Grumpy Old Man
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Moderator - World Affairs
ACuriousPLAFan said:
We do still need considerable size of personnel (or a skeleton crew, at the very least) onboard, - Not just for daily upkeep and man-in-the-loop duties - But most importantly, damage control.

At present (and for at least much of this decade), I don't think that large-sized USVs (that are in the high-hundreds of tons and above) are entirely capable of conducting damage control effectively without human supervision and intervention - Considering how complex and intricate damage control can actually get, whereby even a seemingly unnoticeable leak from just a few pipes could risk capsizing an entire ship if no action is executed in time to address it.

In the meantime - Sure, it is entirely possible for China to replicate Sa'ar 6 corvettes of the Israeli Navy (which has 32x Barak 8 SAMs, 40x C-Dome CIWS and 16x Gabriel V AShMs) for service with the PLAN. But, the Israeli Navy is facing a very different operational and threat environment than the PLAN.

Therefore, if we want to fit 054A/B-like weaponry loadout (plus other kinds of systems) on a 056-sized hull, significant compromises has to be made - And that's not just with the ship crew.

Or, conversely - Build that warship with a bigger dimension and a larger displacement.
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USV - Unmanned Surface Vehicle. Having a crew onboard means it’s not unmanned?

Anyways, these things are meant to be disposables and mass produced. If they get damaged and not sunk, they can be towed back to port for repairs.
 
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