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GAO report for 2022 notes increase in ships waiting for both repairs and regular maintenance, the trend that has been going for over a decade. While it's normal to have 20-30% of ships undergoing maintenance at any time, the only way the USN can sustain current commitments is by declaring ships...

That is if the maintenance backlog does not do the USN in.

Yeah, I'm sure the grunts that will be sent into the meat grinder will just love to have loudspeakers blaring youtube clips that some POG far away choose for them.

You already got a war in Ukraine to masturbate to, no need for more people to fie for your perversion, you spoiled brat.

Silly silly silly man, you think that with penetration of Taiwan by Chinese intelligence services the transfer of nuclear weapons can be done covertly, especially since in order to be a deterrence the existence of the nuclear weapons has to be known and it is not hard to figure out where they...

Israel is trying to play nice with China, there is no way they would give Taiwan anything but the middle finger.

There have been multiple anti-shipping missile and cruise missile container launcher projects through the years, but I don't think any came to prototype stage.

People claimed the same before the presidental elections and we all know how well that turned out. Sure, there are some squabbles over the division of spoils, but they can still agree on keeping the power and oppressing the wrongthinkers, they will only turn on each other once the corpse of the...

With 170kt warhead (Minuteman-III) two miles off is a difference between hardened target being destroyed and hardened target being shaken, but not stirred. It's an early prototype though, there is a room for improvement a common occurrence in weapon development.

Spec Ops ain't magic.

As far as I recall that is a common practice in China, with sea ferries over certain tonnage having to be modified for dual purpose. It's possible they slacked off on this practice in the past and are catching up again.

To be honest, it's not the task of these organisations to report about their discoveries to general public, they report to their higher ups and in the end the politicians decide whether the public should know. Of course, during the previous administration, these same organisations fed every bit...

Israel was accused of giving them plans for IAI Lavi, thus kickstarting the development of J-10. Of course the same people also accuse Israelis of selling the Chinese every other bit of technology USA shares with them like Patriot missiles and all other fighters.

Pretty much all Chinese designs include tech stolen in the West. In the last twenty years China conducted nonstop spying assault on governmental and corporate networks, and it was mostly tolerated due to importance of the Chinese market. There is also corporations willingly handing over know-how...

Not until it gets a new president, Duerte is busy kissing China's ass.

When senpai doesn't want to notice you.

Plus the whole impressment of the sailors thing was being negotiated and USA actually had to hurry with the declaration of war so they could still use it as excuse casus belli.

Power disparity is too big, China knows it, Philippines knows it and Duterte screwed up by telling the USA to bugger off.

So Duerte tells USA to fuck off and China becomes even more intrusive, who could have foreseen that. Which would be a nice replacement for natural ones that the Chinese deliberately destroyed. But Philippines will not do that, power disparity is too big.

Yeah, it's a bit of realignment for them. After the death of Mao, the loyalty to CP was emphasised, but now Winnie is reinforcing the loyalty to him personally. It's similar to how US armed forces are now realigning from the loyalty to stat to loyalty to Democratic Party.