How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years

Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by DeathArrow on Friday May 24, 2024 @02:40AM (#40463499)

>Don't worry about the shipbuilding. China doesn't have carriers. They don't have a navy that can leave shore more than a hundred miles or so.

>The fact is the US Navy can blockade China's food imports and petroleum (as in, fertilizer so ... most domestic food) shipments in Malaysia at will and ... China starves a couple months later.

The fact is that China do not have ships because they don't intend to do large scale invasions thousands of miles from home.

US Navy can't blockade China because the have enough missiles to destroy 100 times more ships. And they have the capacity to fab more than 1000 missiles per day.

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Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years by AtlasBarfed on Friday May 24, 2024 @08:48AM (#40465672)

I agree in many respects that the US surface fleet is basically obsolete against a power with a decent supply of antiship ballistics, but US nuclear submarines are an entirely different matter.

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