World’s Largest Navy: China sets world record according to World Record Academy

[beijingwalker]

World’s Largest Navy: China sets world record according to World Record Academy

November. 06 2021

ARLINGTON, Virginia, United States--With 355 ships in its fleet, according to the Pentagon’s annual China military report estimates, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China sets the world record for the Largest Navy, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

The 355 estimation accounts for “major surface combatants, submarines, aircraft carriers, ocean-going amphibious ships, mine warfare ships, and fleet auxiliaries,” according to the report, which covers events in 2020.

By 2030, the PLAN is expected to have 460 ships.

“This figure does not include 85 patrol combatants and craft that carry anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs). … Much of this growth will be in major surface combatants,” the report reads.

According to the Pentagon, the PLAN has 350 battle force ships, as opposed to the U.S. Navy's 293 ships. The U.S. Navy is far larger by tonnage, but that advantage could be erased given China’s frantic shipbuilding schedule.

The report, which is mandated by Congress each year, describes China’s navy as having growing ambitions to operate with more versatile platforms beyond the Indo-Pacific region.

“Towards the PRC’s goal of building a ‘strong and modernized naval force,’ the PLAN is an increasingly modern and flexible force that has focused on replacing its previous generations of platforms that had limited capabilities in favor of larger, modern multi-role combatants,” the report reads.

“As of 2020, the PLAN is largely composed of modern multi-role platforms featuring advanced anti-ship, anti-air, and anti-submarine weapons and sensors. The PLAN is also emphasizing maritime joint operations and joint integration within the PLA. This modernization aligns with the PRC’s growing emphasis on the maritime domain and increasing demands for the PLAN to operate at greater distances from China.”

According to the military report, China is pursuing both new anti-submarine warfare capabilities and long-range strike capabilities, including land-attack cruise missiles that could be launched from surface ships and submarines.

“In the near-term, the PLAN will have the capability to conduct long-range precision strikes against land targets from its submarine and surface combatants using land-attack cruise missiles, notably enhancing the PRC’s global power projection capabilities,” the report reads. “The PRC is enhancing its anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities and competencies to protect the PLAN’s aircraft carriers and ballistic missile submarines.”

World’s Largest Navy: China sets world record

ARLINGTON, Virginia, United States--With 355 ships in its fleet, according to the Pentagon’s annual China military report estimates, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of China sets the world record for the Largest Navy, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

www.worldrecordacademy.org

 

[beijingwalker]

China has numerical and possibly tech advantage over US military, top Marine says
by Joel Gehrke

November 04, 2021 08:14 PM

China will not just have more people — it also may have better technology should a war with the United States break out, according to the general who leads the Marine Corps .

The bleak assessment from Marine Corps Commandant David Berger came Thursday amid increasing Chinese belligerence. But Berger did offer some hope that the U.S. might yet have some military advantage against the world's most populous nation.

“It may not be true, but I assume that, in the future, we will not enjoy a technological advantage or a numerical advantage,” Berger said. “So if we don't have those two, then it comes down to the individual intellectual edge that we need, which is what we have to bank on.”

That foreboding has spurred Berger to attempt a revision of the Marine Corps composition and positioning as he anticipates a need for older and more skilled Marines deployed throughout the Indo-Pacific in advance of any conflict. And the outcome of that crisis could depend on whether U.S. forces, up and down the chain of command, can outthink an adversary that has claimed advantages enjoyed by the U.S. in previous major wars.

“You need to be prepared with a capable force, I think, to match what they may throw at you, but the mistake would be matching symmetrically head on head, exclusively,” he said. “We need to find the gaps, create the gaps.”

The ominous appraisal of China’s vast and growing military capacity was echoed by U.S. officials throughout the second day of the Aspen Security Forum. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, for instance, acknowledged the “significant threat” posed by the fact that China has 17 shipyards that are turning out new warships at a pace of 20 per year over the last two years, Defense Department officials are scaling back their ambition to add more than 50 ships to the U.S. Navy.

“It's not just about the number of ships — it's about the capacity that they bring, the capabilities that they bring to the table, the lethality that they bring,” Del Toro said. “we obviously want to be able to build the most modern ships that we can, right, while maintaining some of the legacy ships that we have to be able to fight the conflict should it present itself in the next two to three years, for example.”

China’s military upgrades have been designed with the goal of defeating a “strong enemy” — a term Pentagon officials regard as a “euphemism” for the United States.

“With a force that totals approximately two million personnel in the regular forces, the PLA has sought to modernize its capabilities and improve its proficiencies across all warfare domains so that as a joint force it can conduct the range of land, air, and maritime operations as well as space, counterspace, electronic warfare (EW), and cyber operations,” the Defense Department’s observed this week in an annual China Military Power report. “In 2020, the PLA continued to make progress implementing major structural reforms, fielding modern indigenous systems, building readiness, and strengthening its competency to conduct joint operations.”

Those improvements point to “the challenge of logistics in a contested environment” that could make it difficult for American forces to move from the U.S. to the Indo-Pacific in the event of a conflict and also interrupt U.S. efforts even to provide supplies to the forces already present, according to Berger.

“It could be through cyber, offensive cyber actions, it could be in another way,” Berger said. “But we assume they will try to make it very difficult for us to logistically sustain a very distributed force. We're going to do the same to them. We're not going to make it easy for them. Any adversary, you're gonna make it very difficult for them.”

That assessment of threats accounts in part for Berger’s desire to make a career in the Marine Corps more attractive to Marines who are contemplating a departure from the force.

"We have to keep the talent,” Berger said. “The way that we’ll operate will be much more distributed, much more dispersed, which means each individual leader has to be able to make decisions at a higher level than they do today. In other words, the decisions that a lieutenant colonel makes today, I think, entirely feasible in six, seven, eight years a captain will be making the same decisions. Why? Because they'll have the capability, and we will train them to a higher level and they'll have the repetitions, the maturity, to make them.”

China has numerical and possibly tech advantage over US military, top Marine says

China will not just have more people — it also may have better technology should a war with the United States break out, according to the general who leads the Marine Corps.

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[beijingwalker]

China's navy 'numerically' the largest navy in the world: US report
WION Web Team
Washington Published: Nov 07, 2021, 03:36 PM(IST)

According to the US Department of Defence(DOD), China numerically is the "largest navy in the world".

The US department in its recent report has said China's Navy possesses "approximately 355 ships and submarines, including more than 145 major surface combatants."

The Chinese Navy can also has the ability to conduct "long-range precision strikes" in the near term even as it enhances "anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities".

The DOD report further states that the Chinese Air Force (PLAAF) and the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) together "constitute the largest aviation force in the region and the third-largest in the world".

The two forces together have 2,800 aircraft of which 2,250 are combat aircraft which includes fighters, strategic bombers, tactical bombers, multi-mission tactical and attack aircraft.

The report said China's rocket force continues to grow its inventory of road-mobile DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) and is capable of conducting "conventional and nuclear precision strikes".

On China's nuclear capability, the report says the country's military has been expanding its "land, sea, and air-based nuclear delivery platforms" and has also engaged in biological activities.

China's military has also been pursuing overseas interest with military facilities to support naval, air and ground capabilities and is considering Cambodia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, UAE, Seychelles and other locations.

The report notes that despite "border clashes with India, and other significant events" last year, the Chinese army has "accelerated its training and fielding of equipment from the already fast pace of recent years."

On the military front, China intends to become a "global innovation superpower" and is seeking f leadership in key technologies for example Artificial Intelligence, autonomous systems, advanced computing and quantum information sciences.

China's navy 'numerically' largest in the world: US report

According to the US Department of Defence(DOD), China numerically is the "largest navy in the world". The US department in its recent report has said China's Navy possesses "approximately 355 ships and submarines, including more than 145 major surface combatants." The Chinese Navy can also has...

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[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

China needs at least 10 carriers by the 2030s to be able to challenge the US. Right now no. Just because more ships does not mean more firepower. 100 dinghys are no match for 1 carrier.