PLA Navy news, pics and videos
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A lot more substantive info then typical Thinktank videos that can plow on for hours speaking in the broadest terms possible without really saying anything..
Some key notes
China have the largest Navy in all measures but tonnage and is outbuilding The U.S by roughly 50% measured in tonnage, will achieve parity around 2035 if current trends continue.
U.S naval combat experience is limited to shooting tomahawks at people that can not shot back, before the recent Yemen conflict no serving navy personnel had experience getting attacked on the ship. Brought up as a point to the common claim that China lacks combat experience.
Chinese Nuclear subs are noisier then American ones (granted their latest data is from 2015) Tom which is a former u.s sub commander said they would not be good as a counter to u.s nuclear subs but that they could be dangerous in other roles.
Blockades of merchant shipping is difficult due to the internationalization of shipping where a ship can be built by one country, owned by a second, chartered by a third, registered in a fourth and crewed by a fifth while carrying goods from more then one country.
The U.S might be vulnerable to a blockade because they barley control any merchant ships and it can be hard to convince foreign ones to deliver goods through a blockade with Chinese subs active outside the U.S coast.
Most recent bird's eye view of Jiangnan and Hudong-Zhonghua shipyards.
Posted by @克总评车 on Weibo.
Posted by @克总评车 on Weibo.
The Type 032 SSK makes a rare appearance in conjunction with the 97th anniversary of the PLA's founding. Posted by @太湖军I名 on Weibo.
One from the archives.
One from the archives.
