Comment on Nato says Western civilians should prepare for 'all-out war' with Russia

• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We created the monster China has become. We should have never started sending our jobs there.

  I am very curious how their equipment stacks up to ours. They claim to have similar capabilities but I question the quality.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They just launched their first super carrier. The US has twelve.

    The US spends as much as the next ten countries combined on military.

    I ain’t saying money is everything in this game but that’s orders of magnitude differences in materiel, resources, and basic infrastructural capabilities.

    The US has enough nuclear missiles on subs to do whatever, and this is what we know about. I forget the numbers, but something like a typical nuclear sub has 6 missiles, each with numerous (12?) independent warheads. Just an example of the insane resource levels we’re talking about. And again, this is what’s public knowledge.

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  • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The closest the US will get to fighting China is a Taiwan proxy war. We’ll still get to see how well their stealth aircraft work, probably not that well considering they just figured out how to bury the exhaust nozzle inside the airframe. We’ll get to see how well their missiles work, an area they are closer to the US, as long as they don’t use water as fuel. We’ll get to see how well their ships anti missile/drone tech is really only the US and Israel have had to defend against those kinds of attacks.

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      China hasn’t had a conflict in years. I suspect their units will not do well in a war. None of their equipment is battle-tested and most of them appear to be poorly constructed. Their J-20 is underpowered. Where their real advantage is manufacturing which was our advantage in ww2. China can out produce the US if it came to a war and that is concerning.

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      • SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I agree. The best equipment and training can be offset by basic equipment and sheer numbers. The US found that out in Korea, and the Germans found it out in the Eastern front

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  • PrincessEli@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They claim to have similar capabilities but I question the quality.

    Even if, and that’s a big if, their equipment is all they crack it up to be, the US still maintains overwhelming superiority through volume alone.

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    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The US could just launch materiel at China - boats, jeeps, whatever, and not run out of things for years.

      Of course conventional warfare really isn’t on the table with China.

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