MIGleader said:
so you think the chinse arnt capable of making a good system from the stolen tech? all they can do is use the basics? you underestimate them. thales probably helped them anyways.
lets say the pla gets 15 points every year
and u.s gets 10
the u.s starts out wit 100 and
the plan gets 30. the plan will catch up eventually.
At the current pace....not likely. The U.S. is heavily vested in it's own R & D in naval engineering and is currently going beyond AEGIS technology. This leaves PLAN in the dust. And PLAN lacks the actual experience in operating this equipment. The USN has tens of millions of man-hour experience operating this advanced type of hardware. PLAN has zero. PLAN is only trying to copy. And I'm telling you, you just can't copy an AEGIS like ship and throw 250 men on it, and say you have the AEGIS ships. If you think so, you're delusional. The Soviets in their heyday tried to copy tons of U.S. military hardware and failed miserably. They were very successful in their own designs however.
There is alot more to an American AEGIS ship than the missiles, sensors, and software. It is a totally integrated network capable of prosecuting aircraft, missile, surface, sub-surface, land, and ballistic missile targets simultaneously. They have time-sharing management protocols and cooperative engagement utility. Not to mention the integration with C4I. China cannot steal the system, nor can China steal her way to the top. The AEGIS like ships you see China producing now are crude copies of known naval hardware. Just because they have a PAR and missiles in a VLS configuration means nothing. Chinese naval engineering lags pretty far behind as is. I'm not putting down the PLAN, but if you look objectively, they are nowhere near the USA's naval capabilities, and will not catch up anytime soon.
