Everything has it own quality, how good or bad the quality is what that count.
You don't even understand the quote you made, it mean Quantity on its own is a quality. It is not always true depending on what you are talking about. In a land war when everyone have a gun, maybe, in a naval engagement when you much more depending on skill and technology, it may not.
How high IQ do you have to NOT Understand that quote?
And no, Stalin is not a tactician nor strategist, so no, his word don't count, if you quote Ruskov, or Von Clauzwitch, or even Molkte maybe, quoting Stalin you may as well quote Hitler.
So, HAHAA
Your lack of Naval Knowledge amaze me.
First of all, you need fresh water, food, aviation fuel, diesel to operate a ship when you are not in combat, you will need munition, equipment, repair, weaponry when you are in combat.
Do you even know how often an US navy ship refuel? 3 or 4 days. It does not mean they run out of fuel in 3 or 4 days but SOP dictate they cannot go under certain amount of fuel and provision. Navy ship don't usually have supply to last 21 days. and even with extended deployment. Not more than 30 days at sea without resupplying.
Now, back to your question. 1.) 30 days get you no where, if you depart from Hainan, 30 days trip will bring you to at most cape of good hope. 2.) Between diesel, munition, yes, Navy ship usually cannot carry 40 tons of food, because of the priority of logistic. Most destroyer carry 10 tons food, enough for 14 days.
And lol for suggesting using commercial ship. Maybe you can siphon some fuel from the tank if you have an adaptor, but to resupply other stuff, unless you plan to carry each box from commercial ship to your navy ship, you need to open your resupply ship bulkhead for the transfer, if you do it in a commercial ship(If it can actually do it) that ship will sink to the bottom of the ocean. Most merchant ship is either container ship, which lay it on the container, how do you transfer a container from a merchant ship to a Navy ship in high sea when wave swing you around? Ever wondering why Navy need to specifically design replenishment ship for underway replenishment? Really high IQ of you.
You bring up Djibouti first, if you don't want me to talk about Djibouti, don't talk about Djibouti first,
Also, spare me the idiot and moron, I am here to discuss, not to argue with a 12 years old playing video game. Although I do have a feeling I am talking to a immature 12 years old.
You do know Royal Navy have 58 + replenishment ship operated between Royal Navy, Royal Fleet Auxillery, Serco Naval Service today, Right? So yes. UK have more replenishment ship than China. And during 1980, UK had around 100 auxiliary ship.
You are the one that make stupid comment.
1.) What make you think French ship is not peer to China? China is way behind the US Navy, and French Navy is at least on par with US navy. Look at how many and which country buy Chinese naval ship, then look at how many and which country buy French Ship, and see it for yourself.
2.) UK fought Falkland is half the length of a hypothetical Chinese-French fight. With ascension island as forward operating base. And if we look at the naval battle fought between UK and Argentina, UK lost that battle. In that battle, the Brits are not invading Falkland, they are liberating Falkland, the war is won because the population side with the Brits and they are British, not because of the Royal Navy out fought the Argie. In fact, Royal Navy had made the task of recapturing Falkland harder.
-)They did not seal off the San Carlos Bay, which mean Argentine Skyhawk can come in to bomb the Para and Royal Marine at will.
-)They lose the Atlantic Conveyor, which carry all the British Army Helicopter
-) They failed to maintain a no fly zone over Falkland, which mean only 4 sorties from RN Carrier launch to support the ground troop during the whole war.
The only thing they did right is they landed the 3rd Brigade and the Royal Marine. Granted, that is the primary objective. But that is one part of the war. And in term of losses, their naval campaign actually failed.
3.) No neutral country will support China or France, hence they are called NEUTRAL. During Falkland war, even US did not support the UK, when Maggie ask for access to Puerto Rico (merely 4000 mile to Falkland) and Reagan say no. in the end, the UK need to launch from their own base in Ascension, which is double that amount. I don't think even Pakistan will allow China to use its port to fuk with French, seeing how many dealing Pakistan have with the French.
lol, I am not the one who claim CJ-12 is a wonder weapon, you are.
And no, CJ-12 hit nothing at mach 4, if they hit a ship in war, show me proof. I can say no ship can escape JASSM, without actual performance data at war, all you can do is talk.
1.) You claim US navy is interested in something wasn't physically exist, and I am bullshitting?
2.) Interested in Hypersonic Missile and Supersonic missile and Interested in Anti-Ship missile is two different thing.
3.) lol, ship can reach 30 knots per hours, that is their MINIMAL top speed, without overheating their engine, you know what kind of speed is 30 knots per hour. That's 35 miles per hours, that's 54 kilometre per hours.
10 Minutes lag time which mean you give the target a 10 minutes head start, that's 9 kilometres, then you are talking about strike TTL and correction, at best you are looking at 25 minutes lag in total, at worse, you are looking at 45 minutes lag, which mean at 25 minutes lag, the target will be off by ~27 km.
How much to do you know ISTAR? Do you even know what ISTAR stand for? LOL
LOL, you want a Supersonic Missile to ZIGZAG at MACH 4 to dodge CIWS? LOL. Did I heard that right?
I cannot even begin to tell you how stupid that is.
@gambit.
Do you think which one can turn faster? a Mach 4 missile? or a CIWS?
The rest of your paragraph is simply...……….MOOT.
Firstly, you speak nothing, you have no creditable citation. Nor would you actually explaining why you think that would work.
Secondly, anything is a threat to the navy. How big a threat is would be a major talking point. By that definition, yes, Chinese missile is a threat, so does the Russian Missile, Iranian Missile or even British missile.
Thing is, being a threat does not mean it is an end game, which does not mean that is better than the US navy. Part of what a war is to neutralize any threat, without threat, there will be no war. Having think they are a threat does not mean the USN does not have a way to counter it. Nor was that raise a concern.
That said, it have nothing in common with the topic at hand. Topic is French vs China, not US vs China.
So? What's wrong being subsonic? Does it mean it is inferior? The function of a weapon is on killing the other side, being subsonic or supersonic does not mean it is inferior. For example, each H-6 can only carry 6 YJ-12, which each B-52 can carry 8 JASSM, would that make JASSM superior in that sense?
What you are arguing is honestly, quite stupid.
What Guam have to do with this?
Dude, what do you think a missile is made of? Nuke? You can fire 100 missile and all hit Guam, you won't destroy it. Missile is a point to point weapon, it is used to hit specific target, or hard target, there are more hard target on Guam than China have all the DF-whatever combine.
Also, How about A regiment of B-52, B-1 and B-2, would that threaten the PLAN? China have how many H-6K? How many B-1, B-2, B-52 US have?
You know Japanese base in WW2 was hit by more Bombs than you have in Chinese missile stock, and they keep running. You think DF-whatever can make a difference? Wait, you ain't Chinese lol.
So, DF-21, DF-26, CJ-10, YJ-12 did have actual combat data? Please give example or I am calling you Bullshit.
Strange, because outside these Chinese Forum bubble, you lot were the idiots.
I don't see a single one of you have more than 100 positive rating, nor anyone who fly a Chinese flag start any military related topic that is worth discussing.
I alone have more positive rating than all the Chinese PDF member combine, me and gambit combine? You lot ain't even close.
LOL. You can denied it and stay inside your bubble and think I am an idiot. I don't mind. Because your feeling mean shit to me.