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kwaigonegin

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Kich said:
Catching up on this thread, but the idea of a super ship will be only possible in the next century or mid-century. 2100-2150. By that point, the current concepts of a CSG would be have been tested in a major war and depending on the outcome, it will revert many back to their drawing boards.
A ship that is partially a carrier (with drones) packing with missiles, energy weapons and even a rail gun is possibly. It might make it more survivable if it is semi-submersible. This all sounds silly but who knows what they future holds. We will be gone anyway.

Also who knows if space has been weaponized at that point rendering large ships useless as major weapons platforms. But I'm sure all this is something that those with the funds (US and China) are looking into.

Edit: Nice being the 6000th post. :p
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As long as there are seas and oceans there will always be warships. The basic concept of a warship hasn't change in the last couple thousand years... and that is to hurl/launch projectiles at a target.
Said projectiles will be more accurate and longer ranged but fundamentally it's still the same.
Instead of relying on the mk 1 eyeball and looking at stars, we use satnav, GPS, radars etc.
The future will just be evolutionary advances of these basic concepts.
 
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Hitomi

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Kich said:
I have bad eyesight. A higher res would be very nice.

US is going to let Japan maintain some of her ships to alleviate the bottleneck.

If push comes to shove, I suspect they will allocate some ship-building contracts to SK and Japan but that will be a last resort and a very bitter pill for them to swallow since it sends a horrible message and even Congress might not allow it.
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Didn't they also recently cleared Indian shipyards to maintain their ships as well?
 
by78

by78

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Ground training facility for replenishment at sea.

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ACuriousPLAFan

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BoraTas said:
- Construction capacity is basically a non-factor in Chinese naval expansion.
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Sorry, but I don't quite get it. Didn't China's massive shipbuilding industry and capacity also provided significant help hands for her naval expansion?

For instance, the number of large dry docks that China has - Which, while capable of building gargantuan-sized LNG carriers and container ships - Can also be upgraded/retrofitted to build cruisers and flat-decks.

BoraTas said:
- China already has more of what counts in a West Pac conflict, combat vessels.
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China do have plenty of combat vessels right now.

But to be more specific, tactical combat vessels (i.e. corvettes, frigates, and diesel-electric submarines) that allows the PLAN to achieve naval supremacy within and around the First Island Chain.

In the meantime, what China does need more from now on are strategic combat vessels (i.e. destroyers, cruisers, aircraft carriers and nuclear-powered submarines) that will allow the PLAN to confidently expand their periphery of operations (and thus, strategic depth) up till and around the Second Island Chain.
 
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Alabama

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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Sorry, but I don't quite get it. Didn't China's massive shipbuilding industry and capacity also provided significant help hands for her naval expansion?

For instance, the number of large dry docks that China has - Which, while capable of building gargantuan-sized LNG carriers and container ships - Can also be upgraded/retrofitted to build cruisers and flat-decks.
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I think you're misinterpreting him. What he means is that China's decision to expand its navy does not depend on its ship building capacity since they have a lot of that. Meanwhile shipbuilding capacity is a limiting factor if the USN wants to expand since the US has such a small shipbuilding industry which is barely maintaining the current size of the USN.
 
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