Daily reminder that we aren't the only ones who hate China

[The Comrade]

that one carrier turned casino turned carrier from the 1980s is TERRIFYING everyone

[Kane]

[Zeugma]

[Dylan]

[Boris Johnson]

[eric]

[Boris Johnson]

[eric]

Yeah but they're still at a disadvantage, because they have to also deal with Japan and Korea, both of which are US allies and are terrified of China ruling the seas.

And they're ship-ship missiles will be neutralized by US missile defense systems. Some of which are currently in place.

In a 3v3 battle (carriers) the US wins handedly for the next decade at least, probably longer, since any such battle also includes US allies in the region.

I found a few articles that I think are pretty good:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/china/

http://www.businessinsider.com/dont-bel ... ile-2012-7

Don't forget, that even as China develops better tech and ships, they will continue to be hard-countered by missile defense. Then what? Press 1 a whole bunch and missile spam? How long could China even sustain something like that?
Submarines you say?



And in what way could the US not continue to sustain a sizable force at least? Maybe not 15, but we really don't need that many unless we're still policing the world.

[Boris Johnson]

Well yes but allow me to add two points to that.

1) Is anyone seriously taking the CCP's word that they plan to stop at three carriers? Hell at least in the public domain the very existence of the type 089 is at best heavily inferred. The Chinese are much better on keeping a lip on their shit than we are.
2) Given the near light-year advances in ship-to-ship missle technology and submarine warfare since ww2, is the carrier really as important and will be forever more so as it was in that previously mentioned war?

[eric]