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i bet in a couple week, there will be news that they kissed and made up. Russia cant afford to lose india as an investor yet, and india dont have many choices for a 5th gen atm

modern DDG's are very expensive

both the Ariane 5 and long march 3b can put heavier payloads into orbit than GSLV Mk-III, that said GSLV Mk-III is within ballpark and perfectly suitable, with further testing and more launches to ensure safety, to be a manned rated launcher.

those labels are official not something someone casually put on, they are the organization's name, they can have more than one name you know. china army IS the plagf, china navy IS the plan, china air force IS the plaaf you clearly talked about the army part previously, how psychologically...

you didnt read about stories of corruption in the late qing era did you? i mean seriously, ammo being replaced with sand, gunners not even knowing how to properly operate their weapon. that's the kind of shit that made them lose and lose badly. were there outstanding individuals? sure there...

of course not. but buying us gear has nothing to do with international organizations. the us sales to taiwan happen because of the taiwan relations act which basically says itll help taiwan defend itself. though really the sale dont affect the balance of power at all. but like a ritual the US...

operationally, much of it was influenced by the russian navy, given the whole, cold war thing. but more recently it has been reforming into a more american-like navy. the carrier program is merely the most obvious of it all. off topic, the qing navy was actually extremely powerful, on paper...

of course, you'll find no disagreement from me. the british model and now the american improvement upon it is indeed the current pinnacle of naval operations. even china is now remodeling itself after the american fleet(on a smaller scale of course)

well most are too small to matter or are dependents which has other nations to take care of things like the world bank for them. biggest exception is of course taiwan, officially called the republic of china. it however is in various organizations with the approval of the PRC and under the name...

says a lot that it needs to be around britain itself, facing but one fleet ofthe USN of course this is all hypothetical, since the USN and the royal navy would not fight each other for the foreseeable future. but i think you are underestimating the speed at which the USN can mobilize/move...

yea... no. in some silly one on one maybe, but the current USN is simply too large and top of the line to be taken down by any single power. that said, the rest of your post i can agree with.

against any individual power, other than the US, yes. then again western europe is a very safe place,no real competitor other than russia whose navy is heavily outclassed by the combined might of NATO

seriously it takes like 5 secs to google. What countries are not part of the UN? - Quora

first of all while ukraine might still be a russian client were it not for outside interference, but pakistan needs zero outside input to be a rival to india, china did not turn pakistan into an anti-indian state, it was that from the beginning in addition, china is a far more useful ally...

indeed, h2o is essential to life, but i would really like to see ultron be seal in a jar full of it.

nah, if they're complacent with their slow progress you shouldn't be encouraging them to change. much better for the potential enemy to be thinking he's god while having the actual capabilities of a 10 year old than him thinking he's 10 year old while having the capabilities of god.

that times long gone, but they do still make some very nice vessels abit in small quantities.

they do use "china navy" or "china air force" case in point on their backs, it literally says china(中国) navy (海军) china(中国) air force(空军) china navy in addition you are mislead by the language barrier. to you, PLA means people's liberation army, "army" denotes that it's a land...

the US doesn't that setup the US, along with china, uses much larger(thus heavier) fixed arrays, due to size they are mounted lower but of course has greater power, also there's 4 arrays rather than 2 rotating ones like the sampson im pretty sure penguin was talking about the sonar bulge

unfortunately, weapons like the df-21 and df-26 asbms are not stand alone weapons, to use them one would require a vast sensor net, the kind of which very few countries can build or afford, for china to sell such a system effectively means allowing the buyer to use the full chinese sensor...