No, you don't have experience operating modern carrier. You only capable operating those obsolete old toy. The gap between China will get wilder and wilder in the future. You are no rival to China.
If US was confident that a destoyer can be sunk by missiles, why is it investing so much into destoryer? Is this your IQ?
PACOM Chief Says US Losing Military Dominance to China in Asian-Pacific
PACOM Chief Says US Losing Military Dominance to China in Asian-Pacific
Friday, 17 Jan 2014 09:27 AM
By Courtney Coren
- risk factor for U.S. Navy ships and troops stationed in the Pacific, Defense News reports.
"Our historic dominance that most of us in this room have enjoyed is diminishing, no question," said Locklear, chief of the United States Pacific Command (PACOM).
"We need to think about all scenarios, not just the ones we've been dealing with over the last several years where we've enjoyed basic air superiority and basic sea superiority," he added. "There are places in the world where in this century we won't have them."
While it is clear that China's military power is on the rise, Locklear said, the question remains whether China will actively seek to challenge U.S. dominance in that region. The goal in Washington, he said, should be pushing Chinese officials to work with the United States to secure the region.
"China is going to rise, we all know that. [But] how are they behaving? That is really the question," the Navy commander said. "The PACOM goal is for China to be a net provider of security, not a net user of security."
According to The Washington Times, Locklear's remarks raise a lot of questions about how the Pentagon expects China to provide security in the region when Beijing and Moscow are both considered challengers to U.S. dominance there.
"The problem with this formulation is, for whom does Adm. Locklear think China will be providing security?" asked Dean Cheng of The Heritage Foundation, the Times reported. "The implicit answer is, 'To everyone,' because the assumption is that we can somehow mold China into being ourselves — that China will see its interests as somehow congruent and coincident with those of the United States, and therefore China will assume the mantle of regional provider of public goods.
"But this is a remarkable assumption, especially in light of recent Chinese behavior," Cheng told the Times. "China is not interested in providing security for everyone and, frankly, not even for anyone other than itself. This is the kind of bizarre lens that led one of Adm. Locklear's predecessors to offer to help China with its carrier development."
China attempted to assert its authority in November when it declared an air defense zone over most of the East China Sea that included islands currently involved in a territorial dispute with Japan.
The United States promptly tested the threat that China would take "defensive emergency measures" against aircraft that flew through the zone without first identifying itself by sending two B-52 bombers over the islands in dispute. The fly over took place "without incident" in what the Pentagon described was a "long-planned" training exercise.
But in December, a Chinese warship nearly collided with a Navy missile cruiser, and early in January, China tested a high speed hypersonic missile vehicle that could reach the U.S. defense system. Both are considered additional signs of China's growing military dominance.
Despite all the Chinese military activity in the region, Locklear said he is still more concerned about "an unpredictable North Korea" and its nuclear program.
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Let alone landing or taking off, elite Indians sailors can not, till now, drive Viky without Russian technicians despite having stayed in Russia for months and being showed how to.
Ruskies sailors drone back this carrier to India this time, not Indians. These Russian sailors will stay in India for the coming years to teach elite Indian naval personels how to start engine, turn left and turn right etc 101 operation steps.
The biggest challenge for these Russian sailors in their careers for the next 5 years, however, seems to be finding a way to showcase to elite Indian navy guys how to avoid colliding Viky with another German container civilian ship and getting sunk again, and how NOT to drive it right up to Mumbai beach in any cases... Poor Ruskies, they'll never know what Indians can come up with after those...
That is funny considering how often you guys touted China's shipbuilding industry as indicative that the PLAN will become a naval superpower 'at a flick of a switch'.That's equivalent to saying they have the same level of expertise on modern systems when the last time they stroked a weapon was in WWII.
They made it seem like anyone can migrate their past experience over at a flick of a switch.
If that's the case then why would every modern military in the world pay so much and put so much emphasis into familiarizing their military with modern systems and strategies?
I'm actually curious if they have guys who operated on their old carrier, that are still in service today can claim that they need no new training in operating this newly acquired carrier of theirs?
