News reporting out of China reveal plans to put three, count 'em three, Carrier Battle Groups to sea within a decade. This might get interesting!
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Three Carrier Battle Groups for China?
- Thread starter HeyJoe
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I am picturing 3 Chinese airwings worth of nuggets flying the Case 1 stack in the Taiwanese Straights. Brings new meaning to Chinese firedrill.
I'm wondering what it might be like to be a shooter on one of those technological marvels. Instead of saluting the pilot at final ready, maybe you just turn, face the cockpit, hands at your side and bend at the waist while grinning and squinting your eyes . . . . .
Having flown the Taiwan Straits for the past 25 years and seen the ChiCom antics on a not infrequent basis ... sometimes the airlines had to fly up/down the east side of Taiwan due to problems, jamming, and missile-shoot threats .... I've always maintained they are the next "big" threat/enemy.
Despite the naysayers and "smart" guys and those who think the Chinese "need" us more that we "need" them ...... they -- the ChiComs -- don't think like us ... I'm standby after the 2008 Peking (no one ever ordered "Beijing" duck at a restaurant) for the "may your life be interesting" Chinese curse to take on more meaning ....
Despite the naysayers and "smart" guys and those who think the Chinese "need" us more that we "need" them ...... they -- the ChiComs -- don't think like us ... I'm standby after the 2008 Peking (no one ever ordered "Beijing" duck at a restaurant) for the "may your life be interesting" Chinese curse to take on more meaning ....
I'm dumping my Asian holdings after the Olympics....I don't want my IRA to finance their CV.Having flown the Taiwan Straits for the past 25 years and seen the ChiCom antics on a not infrequent basis ... sometimes the airlines had to fly up/down the east side of Taiwan due to problems, jamming, and missile-shoot threats .... I've always maintained they are the next "big" threat/enemy.
Despite the naysayers and "smart" guys and those who think the Chinese "need" us more that we "need" them ...... they -- the ChiComs -- don't think like us ... I'm standby after the 2008 Peking (no one ever ordered "Beijing" duck at a restaurant) for the "may your life be interesting" Chinese curse to take on more meaning ....
MasterBates
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Why wait until after the Olympics?
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It took me a while because I couldn't remember where I'd read it, but it seems that Chinese growth has already been vastly overstated.
Could be ..... and what do dictatorships always do when things go downhill internally?? Fix the problem ... or???
Turn the proletariat's attentions outward???
Like say...the Falklands (or Malvinas if you prefer their term*) Conflict?
*La Guerra de Las Malvinas (1982)
FormerRecruitingGuru
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I'd say the greatest naval threat from the PLAN for the next 10-20 years will continue to be quiet AIP diesel electric subs, (Yuan, Kilo, and Song) armed with the mach 3 terminal manuvering SS-N-27 sizzler... which scares the living shit out of anyone who knows anything about it.
They have other new, scary stuff that's not related to Submarines that could also impact Naval Warfare.