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“The Chinese love our acquisition system…because we are taking…16 and a half years from stating a need to IOC,” or initial operational capability, he said. “They’re doing it in two or three. We used to do it in two or three.”
While there are no freestanding foreign bases permanently located in the United States, there are now around 800 US bases in foreign countries. Seventy years after World War II and 62 years after the Korean War, there are still 174 US “base sites” in Germany, 113 in Japan, and 83 in South Korea, according to the Pentagon. Hundreds more dot the planet in around 80 countries, including Aruba and Australia, Bahrain and Bulgaria, Colombia, Kenya, and Qatar, among many other places. Although few Americans realize it, the United States likely has more bases in foreign lands than any other people, nation, or empire in history.
originally posted by: Raggedyman
Socialism seems to work for the Chinese
originally posted by: Vector99
Exceptionally well, well except for the fact that China isn't a socialist country.
The Chinese military has come out condemning the article. They have stated they are not targeting the US and the project is R&D. The whole original article, the Chinese government says, was very overblown.
originally posted by: anzha
The South China Morning Post came out with an interesting article. It seems China is developing large Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. These are in effect robot submarines. They are intended to be cheaper than normal subs, but they will be quite large, large enough they will dock like a normal sub pierside. Initially, the subs are intended to do recon, but this will be upgraded to mine laying in the near term. Eventually, though not as far in the future as some will think, the article states the UUVs will act like loitering munitions and do suicide runs at large vessels. Some time later the UUVs will carry torpedoes and missiles, but not in the immediate future.
The article states the whole purpose of this is to change how undersea warfare is conducted since as is it plays to American strengths. The intent is actually, as the outright stated, to target the US specifically. Imagine the effect of a dozen moderate sized robo subs just mining the San Diego harbor, for example.
The Chinese military has come out condemning the article. They have stated they are not targeting the US and the project is R&D. The whole original article, the Chinese government says, was very overblown.
However, Jane's has since published state something rather similar to the original article. And Jane's doesn't normally do this except when they have other sources.
It should be noted, as was in the original article, the Chinese developments are not happening in a vacuum. The US has been working on the tech for some time. The US Navy awarded contracts to Lockheed and Boeing for their XLUUV designs last year. DARPA is getting the payload bay designed and the Navy is seeking funds for FY19 to design a lot of the com systems and sensors.
The US Navy has been planning this sort of thing for a long time. The problem is, like so many things in the Pentagon these days, they are seriously dragging their rump. They are probably about a decade behind where they really ought to be and almost all of this is due to the slow rate of development.
Even the not so cuddly DOD Undersecretary for Research and Development Griffin stated:
“The Chinese love our acquisition system…because we are taking…16 and a half years from stating a need to IOC,” or initial operational capability, he said. “They’re doing it in two or three. We used to do it in two or three.”
We don't need Manhattan Project style budgets. We do need to stop screwing around and stop wasting a lot of money on projects we start and stop and cancel and bring back. And we also need to knockoff the whole idea of adding lots of capabilities in after the contract has been awarded. Define what you need and give the contract. Get the A model or Flight I or A1 model done. Then start working on the B model, Flight II or A2. Don't throw it all in immediately.
Because, as Spock, erm, Griffin said, the Chinese have been developing much, much faster and they are catching up fast.
originally posted by: Raggedyman
a reply to: Vector99
Touché
So communism seems to help with China and her March to global dominance
I am not a fan of communism, just see it seems to be a bit better for a military complex than greed
originally posted by: Raggedyman
What I think is that China has advanced quickly because they share their ideas not copyright them to make money
originally posted by: Raggedyman
a reply to: Vector99
Touché
So communism seems to help with China and her March to global dominance
I am not a fan of communism, just see it seems to be a bit better for a military complex than greed