China's naval buildup is overshadowing the US as Chinese leader Xi Jinping pushes the military toward big modernization and combat readiness goals.
  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The US have put protectionist walls around domestic shipbuilding so of course now it is slow, very inflexible and horrendously expensive. The car industry is next.

  • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Many experts say they even have an industrial plant that reduces the costs of all their military units and a cloning facility that doubles all the infantry they train, as well as dangerous tesla coil technology and giant squids

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Is it a surprise that the top manufacturing country in the world is out-building everyone? Of course they are! They’ve been perfecting the craft for decades. At this point a lot of it is automated by machines. You know, like the future we were promised back in the day? Yeah they’re now living that.

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      It’s also important to consider the perceived needs of the different navies. The US wants global power projection, which requires ships capable of extended deployments overseas. This pushes towards larger capital ships with hefty logistical support, so an overseas mission can be sustained for a long duration.

      China is more interested in regional power projection. This pushes them more towards a Jeune Ecole style fleet of larger numbers of smaller ships. This allows them a much greater degree of flexibility and concentration for deployments in their region, at the cost of greater difficulty in long distance sustainment of operations.

      Because the two powers have different goals, their fleet compositions will differ. The US prefers fewer, larger ships that are very costly to maintain, while China prefers more, smaller ships that are individually less expensive. We can see this if we compare quantity of ships in each fleet vs the total tonnage of each fleet. This may all change at some point in the future, but it’s where we sit now.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      Is it a surprise that the top manufacturing country in the world is out-building everyone?

      Literally the reason the US became a military superpower during WW2 was because they outbuilt everyone at an astonishing rate. Why is it a surprise then that after they “outsourced” most of their manufacturing capabilities to China, that China would suddenly have the ability to outpace the US in manufacturing.

      *shocked Pikachu*

  • harryprayiv@infosec.pubEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Top admiral with a job waiting in the private sector worth untold millions says we need more warships to subjugate other countries and continue destroying the planet as quickly as possible while 70,000 people a year die due to preventable illnesses.