China's SCS Strategy Thread

[LesAdieux]

it's Davidson again, I guess he thinks it's his duty to talk up the China threat.

US admiral says Guam needs more defenses to stop China from knocking it out of the fight with a 'cheap shot'

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[LesAdieux]

two assets affect America's power projection: bases around the world, and its cvn groups. China's missiles have largely neutralized those two assets. the other day an expert claims due to China's weakness in anti-submarine, the Ohio SSGN may determine the outcome of future conflicts.

 

[AndrewS]

it's Davidson again, I guess he thinks it's his duty to talk up the China threat.

US admiral says Guam needs more defenses to stop China from knocking it out of the fight with a 'cheap shot'

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Well, his looking for another $27 Billion over the next 5 years.

 

[AndrewS]

This chart is meaningless. US Pacific Fleet has more destroyers and cruisers (55) than PLA Navy.

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Once the current batch of Type-052D and Type-055 are commissioned within the next 2 years, I get a total of 49 destroyers/cruisers in service.

It will be interesting to see how many more ships are added to the Chinese Navy in the coming years

 

[SidneySwisher]

Based on my sources, I can confidently say that the Chinese army gained an advantage in defense after installing

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[PhSt]

 

[silentlurker]

This chart is meaningless. US Pacific Fleet has more destroyers and cruisers (55) than PLA Navy.
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I mean the original diagram clearly says "West of the International Date Line"

 

[escobar]

I mean the original diagram clearly says "West of the International Date Line"

Yes and that make this chart even more meaningless.

 

[silentlurker]

I don't see how its meaningless, forward deployed assets are going to be important in any Taiwan scenario or SCS clash. Hawaii is probably a week or more from Chinese waters, San Diego is even further.

 

[escobar]

An Incomplete Report on US Military Operations in the South China Sea in 2020 :

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Through 2020, the US military deployed 3 CSGs, 2 ARGS, mulitiple nuclear subs, nearly 1,000 sorties of reconnaissance planes and 17 batches of strategic bombers to the SouthChinaSea, whose intensity, scale and duration were rarely seen in recent years.