PLA Navy news, pics and videos
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Not exactly a news directly related to the PLAN, but still important and consequential to the PLAN, and China's state of business across the oceans in the future regardless.
Four key takeaways that I would like to point out from the USNI news article:
1. US Navy relegating monitoring duties in the waters surrounding the Arabian Peninsular to USVs meant that they are given freer hand to move more warships from the 5th Fleet to 7th Fleet, i.e. the fleet that is directly confronting the PLA Navy in the Western Pacific. This would definitely increase the workload of the PLA in guarding her frontyard.
2. China's key supply route of oil and gas from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran would be coming under more scrutiny, and hence, larger threat in case things go boom in the Western Pacific, as those US Navy USVs would be taking over the duties of manned US Navy warships.
3. China's PLAN fleet based in Djibouti could risk getting overburdened by the US Navy in times of war, while the PLA Navy based in home ports would be too far away and too busy to offer any meaningful assistance.
4. As I have stated in my lastest post in the Chinese USV Development Thread (Chinese USV Development Thread), USVs (and UUVs) would become effective and powerful force-multipliers for any navy that can effectively utilize them. The US Navy and the PLA Navy certainly are in a heated race - Whoever can master the usage of USVs (and UUVs) in naval warfare would be the ones ruling the ocean of the future.
These are the points which I believe that everyone and the people in the CMC should seriously ponder about.
One other thing - They US Navy could also utilize such USVs to conduct the so-called operations to "protect the freedom and openess of navigation" in the South China Sea by sailing them around the islets currently under China's control. In fact, I can already foresee the day when a random US Navy USV could just "conveniently suffer from some technical glitch" and cross into the 12-nautical mile zone around those islets.
How China responds to these "unintentional" USV incursions by the US Navy would determine whether the South China Sea could, once again, become a zone of heated contention just like in 2016-2018 (which China managed to force the US to back-off, back then). Such events could potentially and significantly affect the China-ASEAN relations as a whole, which is something the US would very like to see as they are waging Sinophobic propaganda and psychological warfare against ASEAN right now.
Hence, I believe that these few years would be the prime (and possibly the only) opportunity for China to pull ASEAN firmly into her sphere of influence. Maybe conduct joint negotiations to achieve some kind of semi-permanent/permament settlement with all the ASEAN members involved in the SCS dispute, something like that. China must be able to permanently secure her foothold in the South China Sea, for that the trade routes and natural bastions laid across the South China Sea would be crucial in determining China's future over the next decades, perhaps even centuries afterwards.
Four key takeaways that I would like to point out from the USNI news article:
1. US Navy relegating monitoring duties in the waters surrounding the Arabian Peninsular to USVs meant that they are given freer hand to move more warships from the 5th Fleet to 7th Fleet, i.e. the fleet that is directly confronting the PLA Navy in the Western Pacific. This would definitely increase the workload of the PLA in guarding her frontyard.
2. China's key supply route of oil and gas from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran would be coming under more scrutiny, and hence, larger threat in case things go boom in the Western Pacific, as those US Navy USVs would be taking over the duties of manned US Navy warships.
3. China's PLAN fleet based in Djibouti could risk getting overburdened by the US Navy in times of war, while the PLA Navy based in home ports would be too far away and too busy to offer any meaningful assistance.
4. As I have stated in my lastest post in the Chinese USV Development Thread (Chinese USV Development Thread), USVs (and UUVs) would become effective and powerful force-multipliers for any navy that can effectively utilize them. The US Navy and the PLA Navy certainly are in a heated race - Whoever can master the usage of USVs (and UUVs) in naval warfare would be the ones ruling the ocean of the future.
These are the points which I believe that everyone and the people in the CMC should seriously ponder about.
One other thing - They US Navy could also utilize such USVs to conduct the so-called operations to "protect the freedom and openess of navigation" in the South China Sea by sailing them around the islets currently under China's control. In fact, I can already foresee the day when a random US Navy USV could just "conveniently suffer from some technical glitch" and cross into the 12-nautical mile zone around those islets.
How China responds to these "unintentional" USV incursions by the US Navy would determine whether the South China Sea could, once again, become a zone of heated contention just like in 2016-2018 (which China managed to force the US to back-off, back then). Such events could potentially and significantly affect the China-ASEAN relations as a whole, which is something the US would very like to see as they are waging Sinophobic propaganda and psychological warfare against ASEAN right now.
Hence, I believe that these few years would be the prime (and possibly the only) opportunity for China to pull ASEAN firmly into her sphere of influence. Maybe conduct joint negotiations to achieve some kind of semi-permanent/permament settlement with all the ASEAN members involved in the SCS dispute, something like that. China must be able to permanently secure her foothold in the South China Sea, for that the trade routes and natural bastions laid across the South China Sea would be crucial in determining China's future over the next decades, perhaps even centuries afterwards.
Pretty sure the PLAN would 'recover' it for them and disassemble it looking for the 'fault'
Eventually they would return it to the US in crates of bits
Note too sure the US would appreciate such close inspection of their toys
You are thinking too hard here. What USN wants and its reality are different things. Do you think USN can rely on Middle Eastern naval USVs during a time of high tension? Why do you think China will even has any of its fleet in Djibouti during time of conflict? Do you think USN can just find 10 to 20 Burkes and station them in Indian Ocean to board ships (with unknown destination) during war time?
The reality of the situation is the US navy is in decline. I think most people on this forum knows this.
