MOST of China is fake, fake buildings, fake economic growth, fake military (in regards to some silos and prowess)
It's why I call them a glass cannon, all Taiwan needs is enough firepower and force to stump a first wave attack on them and there's a high chance there is nothing to follow on from that.
Apparently their latest aircraft carrier is a fucking joke as well, forgotten exactly how they did it but allegedly they did some kind of ski jump ramp or something that they bodged on for their jets. About the only impressive thing they did recently was replicate American drone technology and that was likely what Iran gave to them as a gift when the CIA fucked up and crashed a drone in their country while they were spying during the Obama era.
No, their older carriers are the ones that used the ski ramp. What they did was they tried to replicated the electromagnetic catapults the US is switching to to replace the steam based ones (the EM launchers being capable of heavier planes and/or higher payloads). BUT it still uses diesel engines instead of the nuclear reactors US carriers do, so they very quickly discovered they dont generate enough electrical power to actually run the catapults. They also apparently fucked up the build quality (like usual), and it was spotted in drydock with cracks running through the flight deck.
The Chinese military is a joke, and the only threat they pose is subversion. And even that is starting to wane as their economy sputters and dies.
I don't think it's appropriate to compare reality to cartoons but god damn I cant help but notice how China is literally a saturday cartoon force of evil where the head honcho is a slightly charismatic midwit ruling over a bunch of incompetent half conscious simpletons.
MOST of China is fake, fake buildings, fake economic growth, fake military (in regards to some silos and prowess)
It's why I call them a glass cannon, all Taiwan needs is enough firepower and force to stump a first wave attack on them and there's a high chance there is nothing to follow on from that.
Apparently their latest aircraft carrier is a fucking joke as well, forgotten exactly how they did it but allegedly they did some kind of ski jump ramp or something that they bodged on for their jets. About the only impressive thing they did recently was replicate American drone technology and that was likely what Iran gave to them as a gift when the CIA fucked up and crashed a drone in their country while they were spying during the Obama era.
No, their older carriers are the ones that used the ski ramp. What they did was they tried to replicated the electromagnetic catapults the US is switching to to replace the steam based ones (the EM launchers being capable of heavier planes and/or higher payloads). BUT it still uses diesel engines instead of the nuclear reactors US carriers do, so they very quickly discovered they dont generate enough electrical power to actually run the catapults. They also apparently fucked up the build quality (like usual), and it was spotted in drydock with cracks running through the flight deck.
The Chinese military is a joke, and the only threat they pose is subversion. And even that is starting to wane as their economy sputters and dies.
I don't think it's appropriate to compare reality to cartoons but god damn I cant help but notice how China is literally a saturday cartoon force of evil where the head honcho is a slightly charismatic midwit ruling over a bunch of incompetent half conscious simpletons.