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Strange when combat range look to be more important than ever ? Jumping ship will not bring these concepts into life faster...
I missed this when it came out last Friday
China's Type 022 is one of my favorite warships. It provides many capabilities for China besides responding to the USN's Taiwan Strait insult two decades ago. The crew size of 12 supports command structure at-sea ship-level training that carries forward to larger warships. The large number of warships and their LOS datalinks support both school-directed and free-play exercises for squadron-level and higher levels of training. The twin diesels keep it cheap and the high-speed waterjets keep it fun. When deployed against the USN, I expect their operations will be combined with the maritime militia to provide both cover and logistics for their short legs allowing China's larger warships to stand back from USN missile ranges.
As I and others much smarter and more knowledgeable than me have warned, we don't have the money, we don't have the shipyards and suppliers, we don't have the workers and we don't have the national concord to plan, budget and execute any modernization effort, the latest example being the .
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I think this is a misinterpretation. If you watch the General’s speech he uses past tense when the image pops up. He was talking about adaptation and flexibility. So I suspect this was his “retrospective” F35 alternative. Basically a low observable fighter for low tier operations. Similar to what the ROK has been looking at for the KF21.
What? This is totally insanely silly.
Edit: Swinging from ultra premium NGAD to discounted F-35. Did someone in Federal reserve say 'Sir, we cant print money'.
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Since i cant edit any longer, this can be an indirect shot at LM bamboozling the DoD over F-35 for years and billions in never ending software issues. Maybe the customer is getting super tired of how LM screwed them over and want an updated approach to solve F-35 problems.
Besides being border case racist (the slur), you are aslo a sneaky person who sent personal insult in private message instead of making open response in the forum.
So do everybody a favor, keep your promise and never come back.
Cruise missiles with a 500 mile (800km) range and with a target cost of $150K each.
Assuming the US can do this, we can expect the Chinese to come up with something similar, and for less money.
The US is currently buying 90K GMLRS rockets over the next 5 years, which are much shorter ranged and not suitable for the Western Pacific.
Each rocket costs $220K so that's $20 Billion in total
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If China were to only spend half of that money ($10 Billion), that would buy 66K of those ($150K) cruise missiles.
Can you imagine how the strategic balance will change in the Western Pacific? If launched from trucks on mainland China:
1. Okinawa will be under sustained air-sea blockade and becomes non-viable for any sort of operations
2. A somewhat larger version with a 700 mile range can cover all of the Japanese Home Islands. A similar air-sea blockade and continuous attacks on Japanese bases would occur as well.
I would think that you can only manufacture a missile so cheap for a given set of technical requirements no? Eventually you must reach a limit due to the cost of the components like electronics and engine components?