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中國海軍消失100年後又再度崛起為什麼?

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中國海軍自從鴉片戰爭及甲午戰爭,己乎全軍覆沒,從此以後100年,世界上再也看不見中國海軍,連1艘軍艦都無.

Why has the Chinese navy risen again after 100 years of .disappearance?.

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The Chinese Navy Can’t Grow Forever—The Slowdown Might Start Soon.China outpacing US in warship production, Navy secretary warns.

中國海軍再度崛起令美國,憂心忡忡,

恐懼中國,挑戰美國海上霸權.

US navy warned that an increasingly powerful Chinese navy threatens US supremacy on the seas.

A comprehensive compendium of PLAN, PLAAF, CCG ships & aircraft + missiles/weapons & sensors from 1955 to present, as you’ve never seen them before… Consult this unparalleled unclassified reference for analysis or gaming today! 

Larry Bond, Chris Carlson, and Peter Grining, eds., China’s Navy: Ships and Aircraft of the People’s Republic of China, 1955 – 2021 (Admiralty Trilogy Group, 1 October 2021).

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1840 及1850.兩次的鴉片戰爭,中國被英國海軍澈底擊開國家門戶,訂立不平等南京條約喪權辱國,開放5口通商,將香港,九龍租借給予英國100年,英國依賴香港關稅將近獲得不法利益,高達300億英鎊之巨.尤其甚者1850.年英法聯軍火燒圓明園,掠奪中華文物不計其數,也就是說燬毀文物不計其數,價值不可估算損失金額.原本擴充北洋艦隊的軍費,卻被挪用修建圓明園,為慈禧太后祝60大壽,中國海軍從此以後走向衰敗的命運.

圓明園被英法聯軍焚燬,已經163年悲哀的歷史,如果修復重建至少花費100億美元,圓明園的荒廢淒涼,要中國人記憶,

西方國家列強,對於中國的侵略,決不手下留情.

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《帝國的黃昏:鴉片戰爭及中國最後的黃金時代的終結》.

(Imperial Twilight Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age).

一書描述英國人的貪婪掠奪成性,以及商人毫無道德,提出對於輸出鴉片到中國牟利最終引發戰爭.

時光飛逝1894年,甲午戰爭,日本擊敗中國北洋艦隊,從此以後世界上,再也看不到中國軍艦長達100年之久.1894-1994.

大清帝國與日本簽訂馬關條約,割讓台灣省及朝鮮半島給予日本,直到1945.年日本戰敗才由中國光復收回台灣省,而朝鮮半島改為南北不同政權的把持.

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.甲午戰爭結束至今已有139年之久其中的時期中國發生劇變.

1911.大清帝國末代皇帝溥儀退位結束中國帝制封建制度.

19110101.中華民主共和國正式成立.1911-1949.在此時期中國海軍,依賴美國海軍援助,成立所謂中國海軍CHINA NAVY.以山東省青島為海軍基地,同時由美國海軍協助成立中央海軍訓練團,日後改制為海軍官校,培訓海軍人才,在此期間許多優秀的海軍,被派往美國深造,學習更多的海軍知識及技術,同期因為第二次世界大戰結束,美國取得太平洋戰爭的勝利,移交許多驅逐艦,巡洋艦,運輸艦等船隻給予中國海軍使用操作,直到國共內戰.中華民國戰敗退守台灣省,海軍發揮了極大的功效,從運輸戰略物質黃金,故宮博物院國寶文物,以及大量軍民撤出中國大陸,回到台灣.功不可沒.

由於政治因素考量,美國壓迫台灣,購買美國2手淘汰型退役軍艦使用,防守台灣海峽很是無奈..

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Taiwan Moves on $14.7B Indigenous Shipbuilding, Upgrade Projects..

Building up a modern Navy to effectively conduct defense operation and protect sea power, according to military strategy . “Indigenous Defense Ship” is top priority to erect newfangled force to replace aged ship. Hopefully keep industrial capabilities in country. Moreover, balancing national economy development and military strength to build “appropriate quantity, refined quality, and strong power” Navy. Accordingly, coagulating entire nation’s defense strength to ensure national security and development forever.

.台灣海軍需要重建淘汰老舊軍艦加強訓練海軍人才尚有可為.

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西方國家及美國軍事戰略專家分析認為,中國海軍自從烏克蘭購得2手淘汰型破舊的瓦良格號航空母艦起,開始重新改建,修護,變成全新能夠使用的航空母艦遼寧號CV-16.的那一刻起,中國海軍再度迅速崛起,直追美國海軍,成為世界性第二大及第二強的海軍,足以抗衡美國海軍,中國海軍化腐朽為神奇,再度的顯示出中國海軍的實力,有目共睹,不可小覷,對於美國海軍的挑戰已經開始,傳聞許多烏克蘭退役的工程師及技術人員海軍,轉往中國協助工作.

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.GREAT LEAP FORWARD.China unveils its newest aircraft carriers – and they’ve left experts shocked at how advanced they are.

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CNS Liaoning (16).

Conventionally-Powered Aircraft Carrier [ 2012 ]

The pride of the modern Chinese naval fleet is CNS Liaoning 16 which began life as the Cold War-era Soviet Navy aircraft carrier Varyag.

CHINA NAVY CV-16.SO GREAT.

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CHINA’S CV-18 FUJIAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED.

中國海軍航空母艦福建號CV-18.常規動力,卻使用最新的電磁彈射起飛系統,超越美國海軍,令人驚訝,此一時彼一時,美國已經閉口不再說是,中國海軍竊取美國海軍的軍事機密.

Fujian could be commissioned as early as 2024, although, with her new and untried EMALS system, it may be a decade or more before she is practically deemed combat-ready. For reference, Ford was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 31 May 2017 and is only slated to go for her first limited deployment– a “service-retained early employment”– later this fall..

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1:中國海軍造船的綜合工業技術能力及相關設備,已經90% 以上,完全自己自足,可以規劃,設計,施工,建造,維修,各式各樣的軍艦,潛水艇,航空母艦等戰艦.

2:中國早已突破西方國家及美國軍事技術封鎖,完成SSBN/SSN.核子動力潛艦,的設計,施工,建造,維修,可以說明與美國,俄羅斯海軍並駕齊驅.

3:有關中國核子動力航空母艦CVN的研究,製造,都是密秘進行實驗與試驗建造,以驗證理論與實際的差異,才能正式開工建造,核子動力航空母艦,諸如核子反應爐的試驗,根據美國軍事情報的分析透露出,中國海軍首艘核子動力航空母艦已經秘密開工建造?.

其航空母艦專用的核子反應爐的技術資訊,顯示出是利用美國尼米茲級航空母艦核子反應爐的技術仿製而成? 

4:美國海軍認為中國首艘核子動力航空母艦,採用1975年時期尼米茲級航空母艦的核子反應爐為動力?.

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根據西方戰略觀察家及俄羅斯情報顯示出,中國已經開始建造首艘核子動力航空母艦.並且使用電磁彈射系統該艦長度324. 公尺 寬度39.8 公尺 排水量100,000 噸..根據情資顯示中國將在2025年時期建成首艘核子動力航空母艦戰鬥群...

Chinese Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier (CVN): Design Finalized

China-Defense Forum members were somewhat astounded today when pictures were released on Chinese internet forums of what is certainly a model of the first Chinese nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (CVN) on display at an official event in Zhongshan.  While it being just a model might not seem that significant to many, there are telltales about the model in these pics that indicate its genuine.  In fact, it represents a final design for the new CVN has been approved by PLAN for production..

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68).19750630.服役至今.

準備2025退役.

2座西屋A4W核反應爐 4座蒸汽渦輪發動機 4軸 260,000馬力（194兆瓦）

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2 × Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors (HEU 93.5%) 4 × steam turbines 4 × shafts 260,000 shp (194 MW)

5:中國海軍055.D.導向飛彈驅逐艦.

成為世界級的戰艦當之無愧..

20 years ago Chinese warships were far behind their Western, and Russian, counterparts. While America was building AEGIS-equipped air defense destroyers, Chinese ships only had short range missiles. Now the Type-055 is, at least in general terms, comparable to the U.S. Navy’s Ticonderoga Class AEGIS cruisers.The U.S. Navy’s AEGIS Combat System features the powerful AN/SPY-1 passive electronically scanned array (PESA) radar. These are the large phased arrays, arranged four per ship to cover all directions. Combined with high levels of automation and integration, this provides excellent situational awareness. Chinese systems seemed decades out of date...

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Bigger Than A U.S. Navy AEGIS Cruiser: China Is Building More Type-055s

The Type-055 Renhai Class is in many ways the Chinese Navys (PLAN) answer to the U.S. Navys AEGIS cruisers. Large and heavily armed, they play a leading role escorting Chinas aircraft carriers. New intelligence suggests that another batch of these impressive warships is being built.

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 6:CHINA SUBMARINE 096-SSBN & 095-SSN SO GREAT..

中國海軍核子動力戰略型潛艦及攻擊型潛艦,直追美國海軍.

隨者中國強勢崛起,也為其海軍加速建設水下武力的發展,那就是核子攻擊型潛艦及核子戰略型潛鑒的發展,為要抗衡美國海軍優勢的核子潛艦部隊,中國海軍全面努力以赴,齊心協力發展,更新一級的核子潛艦095-SSN.

096-SSBN...

CHINA 095-SSN,SO GREAT..

CHINA NAVY 096-SSBN.sea trail at South China Sea ?...

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China navy Type 096 submarine SSBN,will be

test in the Arctic Ocean in the 2024?.

中國海軍 096-SSBN.勢在必得突破北極圈的冰層封鎖,進行 JL-3.SLBM.的試射演習後才能公開 096-SSBN.正式服役,.

中國海軍與美國海軍最終決戰於2030年代?.\U.S. Navy Submarine Fleet To Be Overtaken By China Before 2030.

.The Type 096 ballistic missile submarine [Tang class, Chinese designation: 09-VI] is the Chinese equivalent of the American Ohio class submarine. According to the US Department of Defenses Annual Report to Congress on The Military Power of the Peoples Republic of China for 2013, "The PLA Navy places a high priority on the modernization of its submarine force. China continues the production of JIN-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN). Three JIN-class SSBNs (Type 094) are currently operational, and up to five may enter service before China proceeds to its next generation SSBN (Type 096) over the next decade."....

The U.S. Navy has a larger submarine force than China. 68 submarines compared to an estimated 66. This makes the U.S. Navy the second largest submarine force in the world, after North Korea. Our estimate for North Korea is 71 subs, although they are barely comparable to the other countries on the list. So China is currently third, and Russia forth with 64. 

CHINA NAVY 094-SSBN.SO GREAT..

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7:中國海軍突破美國第一島鏈及第二島鏈封鎖. .

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美國的重返亞太戰略已經澈底失敗,因為中國海軍已經突破太平洋第第一島鏈及第二島鏈封鎖,中國宣佈094 -SSBN,戰略核子潛艦,已經正式巡弋太平洋足以對抗美國海軍,美國無法扼阻中國海軍強勢崛起..

China’s grand strategy and Taiwan imperatives.The analysis here follows three principles of strategic thinking: (a) focus on capabilities, which take a long time to build, and not on intentions, which can change overnight; (b) focus on actions and not on postures; and (c) evaluation of actors, their powers and their interests.

China borders as many as 17 countries and is the “centre of gravity” of Asia along with Japan. The core “Han” China, comprising about 90% of the population originally occupied about 40% of the landmass of the present day territory. Dynastic rule in China came to an end with the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, and a weak republic came into existence with the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang). The communist party (CPC) was established in 1921 by Mao Zedong. A civil war started in 1927, Mao retreated into the deep interior on his “long march”, and defeated the forces of the Nationalist party, which fled to Taiwan. The 1839-1945 “century of humiliation” by foreign powers is deeply seared into the consciousness of China.

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8: CHINA NAVY vs USA NAVY.

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.The United States has been the world’s leading maritime power for decades. However, the U.S. Navy could find itself in China’s wake if current trends continue, analysts say.

Washington and Beijing are now locked in great power competition.

“The biggest challenge for U.S. national security leaders over the next 30 years is the speed and sustainability of the [People’s Republic of China] national effort to deploy a global navy,” said retired Capt. James Fanell, who previously served as head of intelligence for the Pacific Fleet.

The modernization of the Chinese navy, also known as the PLA Navy, has been underway since the 1990s, and its fleet has greatly expanded.

In its annual report on China published last year, the Defense Department stated that its Asian rival has more than 300 surface combatants, submarines, amphibious ships, patrol craft and other specialized vessels.

In 2019, China had a 335-ship fleet, about 55 percent larger than in 2005, according to a recent Congressional Research Service report titled, “China’s Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities — Background and Issues for Congress.”

“There is no doubt that they’ve been investing hugely in this,” said Nick Childs, senior fellow for naval forces and maritime security at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. “In recent years, they’ve been outbuilding everybody.”

To put it in perspective, during a recent four-year period the naval vessels that Chinese shipyards produced were roughly equivalent in tonnage to the entire U.K. Royal Navy or the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, according to Childs.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy has 293 ships in its battle force, just two more than it had 15 years ago. Its leaders aim to increase the fleet to 355 vessels, but analysts say that isn’t feasible unless there is a massive increase in the shipbuilding budget or a change in the mix of the fleet architecture toward less expensive platforms such as unmanned systems.

“Given the past 20-year trajectory of PRC naval ship construction, the PRC’s expressed desire and ability to continue to increase its spending on naval shipbuilding, the cost advantages its shipbuilding industry enjoy compared to foreign naval shipyards and Chinese shipbuilders’ continued trend of indigenous technical mastery of complex designs and systems integration, I expect the PLA navy will continue to surpass the U.S. Navy in the number of warships built for the foreseeable future,” Fanell said during remarks at the Hudson Institute last year.

Fanell estimated that by 2030, the Chinese fleet will have a surface force of over 450 ships and a submarine force of about 110 boats. However, predicting its future size and structure is challenging because the government is opaque about its ambitions, other analysts say.

“The planned ultimate size and composition of China’s navy is not publicly known,” O’Rourke said. “In contrast to the U.S. Navy … China does not release a navy force-level goal or detailed information about planned ship procurement rates, planned total ship procurement quantities, planned ship retirements and resulting projected force levels.”

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.CHINA NAVY 美國海軍情報局（The Office of Naval Intelligence，ONI）美國海軍發布新戰略指南,首次承認美中海軍軍力旗鼓相當,美國第一次在這個世代有了戰略競爭對手。根據新戰略指南,海軍臚列中國,(軍隊)文化,氣候變遷與新冠肺炎等四項挑戰；其中中華人民共和國造成的長期挑戰,對於美國的國防挑戰最為重大。

9:美國海軍的船隻多數以上老舊急需更新,對抗中國海軍

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China’s naval modernization effort encompasses a wide array of ship, aircraft, and weapon acquisition programs, as well as improvements in maintenance and logistics, doctrine, personnel quality, education and training, and exercises. China’s navy has currently has certain limitations and weaknesses, and is working to overcome them.

China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, is assessed as being aimed at developing capabilities for addressing the situation with Taiwan militarily, if need be; for achieving a greater degree of control or domination over China’s near-seas region, particularly the South China Sea; for enforcing China’s view that it has the right to regulate foreign military activities in its 200-mile maritime exclusive economic zone (EEZ); for defending China’s commercial sea lines of communication (SLOCs), particularly those linking China to the Persian Gulf; for displacing U.S. influence in the Western Pacific; and for asserting China’s status as the leading regional power and a major world power.

Consistent with these goals, observers believe China wants its navy to be capable of acting as part of a Chinese anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) force—a force that can deter U.S. intervention in a conflict in China’s near-seas region over Taiwan or some other issue, or failing that, delay the arrival or reduce the effectiveness of intervening U.S. forces. Additional missions for China’s navy include conducting maritime security (including antipiracy) operations, evacuating Chinese nationals from foreign countries when necessary, and conducting humanitarian assistance/disaster response (HA/DR) operations.

The U.S. Navy in recent years has taken a number of actions to counter China’s naval modernization effort. Among other things, the U.S. Navy has shifted a greater percentage of its fleet to the Pacific; assigned its most-capable new ships and aircraft and its best personnel to the Pacific; maintained or increased general presence operations, training and developmental exercises, and engagement and cooperation with allied and other navies in the Indo-Pacific; increased the planned future size of the Navy; initiated, increased, or accelerated numerous programs for developing new military technologies and acquiring new ships, aircraft, unmanned vehicles, and weapons; begun development of new operational concepts (i.e., new ways to employ Navy and Marine Corps forces) for countering Chinese maritime A2/AD forces; and signaled that the Navy in coming years will shift to a more-distributed fleet architecture that will feature a smaller portion of larger ships, a larger portion of smaller ships, and a substantially greater use of unmanned vehicles. The issue for Congress is whether the U.S. Navy is responding appropriately to China’s naval modernization effort.

10: RED STAR OVER THE PACIFIC.

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Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes’ Red Star over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy. Its authors have studied Chinese maritime issues for decades. Yoshihara is now a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, while Holmes holds the J.C. Wylie chair of Maritime Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College—where his biography cheekily asserts that former Secretary of Defense James Mattis finds him “troublesome.”[10] Both are fluent in Chinese and make judicious use of primary sources to express China’s view of its own strategic situation.

The first edition was named one of The Atlantic’s best foreign affairs books when it was released in 2010. The second edition benefits from nearly a decade of refinement and is immensely enjoyable as a result. Its vision of Chinese thalassocracy has also become much clearer

Red Star is at once succinct and expansive, accessible and erudite. Moreover, it is incredibly illuminating—the kind of book in which you will find yourself highlighting and writing notes in the margins. The authors don’t just admire the problem of China’s growing naval power; they explain how this power fits into China’s worldview and grand strategic design. They set out to tell us what Chinese leaders are doing and why. If you only have time to read one book about the challenge China poses to U.S. interests in the Pacific, make it this one.

"紅星照耀太平洋"書籍描述,2030.中國海軍與美國海軍於南太平洋深處舉行大決戰,其結局令人震驚,因為美國太平洋艦隊,竟然被中國海軍徹底擊潰,美國海軍損失慘重....

.CHINA NAVY SO GREAT.

.How Xi Jinping linked ocean to economic prosperity of China.

習近平的海軍戰略思想,要將中國海軍建成深藍海軍(向大洋深處發展).因為近代中國遭受到外國的侵略,皆由海域進攻中國,唯有發展強大的中國海軍,才能抵抗美國及西方國家的海軍入侵中國境內,無海防就無國防,至少習近平瞭解到與認知,發展海軍,建設海軍的重要性,是當務之急.

On July 30, 2013, less than a year after assuming office, Xi convened a collective study session bringing together members of the Political Bureau. At the meeting he set forth his own vision for Chinese sea power. Notwithstanding the stilted prose that typifies communist directives, Xi’s message foreshadowed his policy and strategy for his first term of office. Although a full transcript is not publicly available, an official summary paraphrases the speech’s key elements. We quote the summary at length because Xi’s remarks continue to be relevant and influential. The CCP chairman first pledged to carry forward his predecessor’s aims: “The 18th Party Congress has set forth the important task for building China into a maritime power. It is of great significance to implement the important task for promoting China’s economic development in a sustainable and healthy way, safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests, realizing the objective of building China into a well-off the society in an all-round way, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”

Xi viewed sea power as integral to China’s economic well-being and thence to its long-term strategic success. But there is more to maritime power than attaining concrete interests: maritime power is inseparable from China’s dream of national regeneration. Xi went on to describe the comprehensive importance of the seas: “The ocean’s function for national economic development and opening up to the world has become more important, the ocean’s place for defending national sovereignty, security, and development interests has become more prominent, the ocean’s role for the civilized building of our nation’s ecology has become more apparent, and the ocean’s strategic position for international, economic, military, and technological competition has clearly risen.”

The sea is not just an enabler for economic development but also increasingly, a cockpit for competition involving all elements of national power. Even as China engages with the world, therefore, inter-state struggles among the great powers will accompany its campaign for sea power. Xi Jinping next sized up China’s ability to fulfill its sea borne ambitions: “Our nation is a continental power and an oceanic power, possessing a wide range of strategic maritime interests. After many year of development, our maritime enterprise has, on the whole, entered the best development period in history. These accomplishments have set a firm foundation for our pursuit of maritime power.”

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America vs China: Who stands where, as US Navy secretary says it cant keep up with Beijing

China has overtaken the United States when it comes to the sheer size of its navy. While the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has around 340 ships, the US Navy has under 300 ships. But experts say US remains ahead in key metrics such as tonnage and firepower

China now has the worlds largest navy - with another new high-tech aircraft carrier set to be launched .

• Beijing has numerically largest navy in the world with an battle force of around 355 vessels, Pentagon said
• Compares with 296 warships at the US Navys disposal, 69 vessels in Royal Navy and 295 Russian warships
• Beijing is expected to add a third aircraft carrier in early 2022, to rival American super carriers 
• Pictures from Jiangnan Shipyard show that significant progress was made on the carrier in the last month
• US leads the world with 11 carriers, UK operates two, including HMS Queen Elizabeth, while Russia owns one
• Chinas growing threat was underscored today as satellite pictures emerged of mock-ups of a US carrier
• Defence experts believe the Chinese were using the mock-up, and that of a US destroyer, in wargames
• Comes amid soaring tension with Beijing after it emerged that it had tested new hypersonic nuclear missile .

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  now has the worlds largest navy and is preparing to launch a new high-tech aircraft carrier , the Pentagon has revealed.

  Beijinghas numerically the largest navy in the world with an overall battle force of approximately 355 ships and submarines, the Defense Department said last Wednesday in its annualreport on China.

  That compares with 296 warships at the US Navys disposal, 69 vessels operated by the Royal Navy and 295 boats deployed by the Russian Navy

  .美國僅有依賴航空母艦戰鬥群CVN/CBG.五湖四海到處耀武揚威,是無法擊敗中國海軍.

• China has overtaken the United States when it comes to the sheer size of its navy.

  While the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has around 340 ships, the US Navy has less than 300 ships at last count, as per Eurasian Times.

  According to CNN, the Pentagon wants to have 350 manned ships by 2045.

  But the problem is that China is aiming to have 420 ships by 2025 and 460 by 2030, as per The Pentagon..One reason is due to the US having 11 aircraft carriers — more than the other top five nations combined.

  According to Forbes, US ships have more than double the missiles of China’s ships.In case of combat, that could prove the decisive edge for the US.

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• China Navy Versus the US Navy Now and Through 2030.

• China’s Navy now outnumbers the US Navy by 300 ships to 287 ship. The US ships are still much larger and more powerful and about 100 of China’s ships are coastal frigates and corvettes. The frigates and corvettes are really a stronger Coast Guard. China needs a stronger coast guard because of the many ships of Japan, India, and Russia.

  The US has 105 aircraft carriers or Destroyers versus 39 for China. The US has 20 large and small aircraft carrier ships versus two for China.

  China matches the US in the number of submarines at nearly 80, but about two-thirds are diesel submarines. China now has mostly converted to modern ships and submarines.

  China’s main naval advantages are
  * they make 36% of the world’s commercial ships. Number two is South Korea at 34% and Japan at 20%
  * China is building about ten more naval ships per year than the USA.
  * China is building more big ships including aircraft carriers.

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• China May Have 100 More Advanced Warships Than the US Navy

  China has about 285 warships that are on the equivalent of the US

• The People’s Liberation Army - Navy is surging ahead quickly with new quasi-stealthy Type 055 Destroyers, several new Type 075 amphibious assault ships and a third aircraft carrier to add to its fleet of two operational carriers. Much attention is paid to China’s industrial base and the pace at which they are able to produce new platforms and build new ships, as it is something cited in a recent Pentagon report on China.

  Part of the complexity resides in the fact that China does not operate with any kind of distinction or divide between commercial and government enterprises but rather merges them. This can expedite modernization in certain respects and, when combined with the size of their shipyards and large labor force, China’s shipbuilding machine is causing major concern among Pentagon leaders and members of Congress.

  “When you look at the modern elements of the Chinese Navy, it should concern all of us…..not only the total number of ships, but actually which ships are comparable to ours,” Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va), Ranking Member on the SeaPower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, told Warrior in an interview.Wittman’s comment resonates alongside remarks he made in a prior discussion with Warrior, which was that while most people are aware that China has “quantity,” meaning a larger Navy than the US … they are increasingly developing “quality” as well. Certainly much of the specifics of relevance to how capable their warships actually are may not be available, yet they are known to be rapidly advancing in technological capability. The numbers gap between the US and China when it comes to warships, is growing larger.

• Old style US Navy Ship Breakthrough Defenses - Destroys Attacking Sea-Skimming Cruise Missile.

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