Seems like a really bad sign
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possible framing: - I don't think you build a navy this large unless you have plans to use it - and there is no use for a navy this large that is not some combination of maintaining globally projected hegemony or fighting the US Navy
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contrary take on the long haul, interesting, I'm mixed on thishttps://twitter.com/PeterZeihan/status/1306283325368262656?s=19 …
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after naval enthusiasts commented in replies at Length and noted that China is not building any carrier groups I am revising downward my belief that power projection has anything to do with this so combination of area denial + giant empty city-style investment more likely? idk
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Navy nerds strike back https://twitter.com/halvorz/status/1306650713817255936?s=19 …
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oh hmm that is quite a builduppic.twitter.com/Hh2Vof259c
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wait did any of those actually get built India still has one iirc and Japan . . . just got one?
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to a good approximation, only the US has aircraft carriers a few other countries have a handful as prestige items, but if you look at their days-at-sea-per-year they're ... uh also, ability to sustain flight operations is likewise ... uh Did a deep dive on this a few yrs back
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_service … CATOBAR is the only ** REAL ** type of A.C. STOBAR is second tier maintaining a real AC is actually an INSANELY HARD thing, it requires a MASSIVE pyramid of cultural and economic competence
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to put on AC in the field with 1,000 sailers you need a service academy, a massive training infrastructure, etc that runs to 10,000 or 50,000 people, then you need a logistics supply chain, all sorts of mil repair shops so that broken components (and things break CONTINUOUSLY)
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can be removed from the ship / the planes, replaced with spares from on-ship stores, handed off to ferry ships which run broken parts back, immediately refill on-ship stores with new spares that were already in the pipelines, ferries bring broken back to labs where >
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