Exactly.
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Yeah but the research has enhanced China's capability in submarine research and building.
I'm not sure what this means. Research has enhanced research? Rim drive is unlikely to be on the next sub, that's all delft is saying. Rim drive research doesn't enhance other aspects of China's submarine technology base, so progress in this area doesn't exactly enhance either China's capabilities in sub research or in sub building.
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I know what Delft says. The point is China's continue successful rim drive research has enhanced it's technology in many ways than one. It increases both the software, hardware, production techniques, computer aid design, any one of which can help in the production of an improving submarine building.
How do you know China's rim drive research is "successful"? How do you know China's rim drive research has done anything to improve "software", "hardware", "production techniques", and "computer aid design"?
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How do you even know if China's rim drive research is NOT successful?
If it was, it would be on the next submarine. Professor Ma obviously left this part out of the list of his accomplishments in that video. He clearly was not shy about detailing what has been accomplished so far, so if the rim drive was ready to go, I have no doubt he would have said so in that very video with that machine in the background.
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Bottom line is China closer to using this technology on their subs than any other player? It seems that way IMO.
You can't even say that, because you don't even know how far along China is towards fielding a rim drive nor do you know how far along any other country is towards fielding a rim drive.
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Anybody watching the TV show Salvation? It's about how the US is trying to save the world from an asteroid. Well in it the US is trying to get the EM drive perfected to be used to save the Earth. Oh, the EM drive that the Western scientific established scoffed at and rejected until China gave it a try and showed results to then get the skeptics to experiment themselves? The TV show makes it look that the US is so open minded that they were so onboard with the EM drive and of course China an obstacle in saving the Earth. Of course they're going to portray it like that because they think that's how it would happen in reality.