It looks like they need 100 type 052D just to balance the number of silos that all those burkes have. We are talking about the minimum deterrent. If we factor in all those potential allies of the main adversary, then more will be needed.
That is... depressing.
Yea, in the same way that the US strategy sets itself up for winning two major wars in two different parts of the world, China should set its strategy towards matching or surpassing NATO + Japan + India + Australia (sans Turkey).
I’m looking forward to whatever comes after Type 52D, hopefully we know more in the next 2 years.
correction .. the US strategy is no longer to win 2 major wars at the same time .. it was a strategy during Clinton's
I believe it is still.
Extremely long but interesting reads.
it is not .. the strategy now .... winning a major war and a minor war ... still wishful thinking
The US hasn't won any major wars since WW-2 (Korea, Vietnam, etc)
and the US still losing even a minor war (i.e Afghanistan, Iraq )
The 052E should carry as many VLS (or even more than) as ABs. That´s the only way to counter the us number of vls.
The 052E should carry as many VLS (or even more than) as ABs. That´s the only way to counter the us number of vls.
LOL, what I love the most about Americans is that, as the only superpower remaining, they will not let go of the chance to use even the most trivial little gain they had on the most unnoteworthy battlefield to boost their own ego. They really reminds me of, (pardon my coarseness), a mental illness called "little dick syndrome".tanker war, Granada, Panama, Iraq invasions 1991, 2003 etc all won by the US.