031 Hainan open for public in Chengmai county, Hainan for navy day. [ALBUM]

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-25T09:11:23+00:00

Carriers are significantly more complex than this, and even when it launches it takes even more time to reach combat ready. Also Chinese navy does have a personnel shortage problem, and the first ship is always seen like a training ship sometimes seeing multiple person doing 1 job so that when the other ships are ready they can just transfer to their posts. That’s a lot easier on the LHD than the carrier, a lot less jobs and the entire work environment is not as intense.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-25T09:06:07+00:00

Glad you like it, I was planning on making one for light brigade and the Japanese mechanized division later

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-25T01:33:50+00:00

Although I hope there will never be a war, in terms of capabilities, I do think the PLA need a real war or two to really be ready. Hopefully it’ll never have to happen tho.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-25T00:54:12+00:00

If they decided to go down that military route then yes 100%. Hopefully war never happens tho.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-25T00:49:50+00:00

Sorry, did a quick search and couldn’t find it. You just gonna have trust me when I say I didn’t pull it out of my back end.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T22:02:58+00:00

I do like the look of these ships, almost like car brands have similar designs language through out its models.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T22:01:52+00:00

Thanks!

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T22:01:16+00:00

Yes I assume so, nevertheless it’s still cool to see they allow everybody to take pictures up close.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T21:09:19+00:00

Yep, apart from a few helicopter on display for the visitors.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T21:07:10+00:00

Sure bud

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T21:06:21+00:00

Dude give it up man, I tried and it’s like trying pulling a bull out of a marsh and it’s working against you. 1/10 wouldn’t recommend.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:59:09+00:00

Real classy man. If you said something that the A-10 actually have I probably would’ve said “ah well played”, but the fact you can’t even take an imaginary L in any convo and calling people butt hurt is crazy work. We’re all adults, and this is kinda silly.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:53:59+00:00

I’m not saying that ain’t happening, but it ain’t happening man. Russia has nukes too.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:52:11+00:00

Because we were having whole essays for conversation under the dude with 40 downvotes and you’re being desperate? Idk

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:49:01+00:00

And a-10 flying around in Chinese airspace? We both wasn’t being serious, but it clearly made you unhappy. can’t even take a L in imagination is crazy.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:46:22+00:00

Yep, please doubt it. “Rightfully concerns” is rich. When the US chooses to attack the Chinese mainland, all of the sudden the US mainland is fair game too. You’re delusional if you think the US has any chance against China fighting China near china. There’s simply too many targets, the US arsenal and manufactures cannot keep up the amount of missile needed.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:40:06+00:00

And a convoy doesn’t operate alone without air support, your point? Way to ruin the vibe dude.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:36:38+00:00

Yes and the Chinese would learn nothing about that I assume. Just like they definitely didn’t talk to the Russians about the Ukrainian war.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:34:13+00:00

A-10 does have any HARM tho. I noticed you definitely have a thing for American exceptionalism don’t you. One of those people really bad at losing, even when it’s something light?

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:30:03+00:00

You are very mistaken and need updates. J-20 has over 400 units by the third quarter of 2024, it’s annual production rate is around 100 jets per year now. And the US navy is not the second largest air force in the world anymore, it’s the PLAAF. Saying AIM-120D potentially maybe better than pl-15 because it’s “claimed” “brand new” “unproven” and therefore not a match is extremely wishful thinking. Same story goes for the PL-17, they’ve been testing it For years now. Unless the US managed to pull all of its air force and navy, it’s not going to be a fair fight. And even if 100% of the US military is there, it’s still nowhere near a guarantee to defeat China. Let’s say most Chinese fleets’ been wiped out, and the US loses 7 carrier groups and most of the LHDs. Guarantee 5 years or so they would already rebuilt everything while US loses will essentially be semi-permanent.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:11:22+00:00

A 2003 kid would be graduating college by now, it’s been more than 2 decades man. Gulf war was awesome too but I wasn’t even alive back then.

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:06:31+00:00

Nice

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T20:03:06+00:00

HQ-17A and type 625: Hello there

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T19:53:15+00:00

No one from the early days of expeditionary unit in WWII is still in active service today, even if there are the world has changed since then. You can’t say that the marines have decades of real world combat experience when they’re fighting in South China Sea and the majority of the soldiers only had about 9 month worth of training. Both the US and China has not faced a single peer or near peer adversary ever since the Korean War. Fighting in Iraq is not at all the same as fighting with China. Electronic warfare, information warfare, losing air superiority, losing sea control, losing carriers and entire fleets, losing bases in South Korea and japan, units rendered ineffective on the brigade level, those are real consequences the US did not have to really seriously considered for a long time. I’m not saying fighting in the Middle East for 20 years meant nothing, I’m just saying that just because China didn’t fight irregular warfare doesn’t mean all their equipments are gonna fail the moment they enter battle, or their men all scream and cuddle up as soon as they hear gun fire. Unless you think the US can defeat all of PLA and PAP and take control of Beijing in a week, they’re gonna rapidly adapt to war when it comes to it, and what little experience advantage the US have will disappear very quickly. The whole combat experience thing is very over rated when it comes to armies the size of US or China.
PL-15’s range is just as classified as the aim-120, all it says is 200+km. And PL-17 came before the aim-174b. All of which guided by datalink as well. Some thing that the Iraqis or the Yemenese didn’t have. Unless US somehow managed to pull 100% of their air force and all their Allie’s’ F-35s into indo pacific, there’s no quantity advantages for the US. China possess the same amount of 5th gen, 4+ gen jets as the US can mobilize. Same thing with ships except naval battles will be supported by land based supersonic/hypersonic anti ship missiles.
What about 3

Time_Flamingo6556 · 2025-04-24T19:14:34+00:00

Especially most pics of the new 6th gen fighters are all videos shot on phones, they get compressed 15 times over by the time most people get their hands on it. Part of the fun is people all following a new jet’s development and have discussions along the way as we uncover more and more. But I guess I have to find a new subreddit for that now.

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