Interesting that PLAN silos its officers and ratings at such an early stage of training, is there no "general" PLAN academy before specialisation? In the RN, sub officers who fail the 'Perisher' course for command are often given command of an ASW frigate in a kind of poacher turned gamekeeper arrangement. I wonder if PLAN does something similar?Not all Indian media is terrible; this is a straightforward overview of PLAN expansions to submarine training facilities in light of fleet growth.
- Although corruption runs deep in the PLA Navy (PLAN) and across China’s armed forces, disciplinary-related removals appear not to have a major impact on naval capabilities or operations.
- The PLAN may be playing high-stakes musical chairs with its leadership, but it has a deep enough talent pool to do so without prohibitive problems. When one leader is purged, another is on deck. Politicized corruption investigations and their imposition of costs are fundamentally a speedbump rather than a showstopper.
- Regardless of corruption’s pervasive persistence, PLAN operational capabilities continue to improve, and cutting-edge, lethal weapons systems regularly enter service. Corruption may contribute to inefficiencies, but it does not curtail PLAN advances. Related removals are neither an indicator of prohibitive incompetence nor a self-defeating constraint on operational capabilities.
Maybe economics was the main focus before, so budgets were maybe allocated there?
"Well, I suppose then they will only have to roughly build 749 or so more foreign military facilities to catch up with us." lmao Lyle is funny.
Imo it's clear that China will have a footing in both east (Kenya/Tazania) and west Africa (Gulf of Guinea). But this overseas presence and influence greatly mismatches China's capabilities. So what is it that's been holding China back...
A new sailless submarine of unknown model has been spotted at Guangzhou Shipyard. Slightly shorter than the sailess submarine spotted in 2018/2019, it features an even more streamlined top hull section and an X-tail.
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