In the next 10 or 20 years, you will see the current number of vessel USN now has is totally unsustainable. US is walking the same route Soviet Union experience. By bankrupting herself with too much military expenditure. I predict with Rising China economy, it will slowly erode whatever US economy used to enjoy. Even the US dollar are under threaten with more countries now trading not in US dollar, especially trade with China are settle in RMB.US Navy has 62 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and 22 Ticonderoga-class cruisers.
That's 84 incredibly powerful destroyers/cruisers in total.
China need many more Type 055 cruisers (128 VLS), not Type 052D (64 VLS). I would say China need 40+ Type 055 to get even within touching distance of the US Navy. Otherwise China will be forever behind the US Navy and be at the mercy of the US controlling the seas. Even with 40, that's still only HALF of the US Navy total. That's woefully inadequate.
China don't need to exactly match the US in numbers but China does need to get close enough in numbers.
China as a superpower with nuclear abilities to wipe out whole world will never face a conflict on her soil anymore. Her only possible war will be proxy war which major superpower will never face each other. What China need to fight will be small proxy conflict encourage by China enemies. It need just a fleet of projection on standby will be enough to deal with proxy war while large number of missiles to deter enemy trying to bring conventional conflict near China.
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