China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report
"The report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet tall," but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia
By PAUL MCLEARY
on September 01, 2020 at 5:29 PM
WASHINGTON: The Chinese military has already pushed ahead of the US in areas like shipbuilding, missile defense, ballistic and cruise missile construction, the Pentagon warned today in a blunt new assessment.
One of the consistent themes of the annual China Military Power report is that much of the Chinese modernization effort remains a work in progress. The People’s Liberation Army, or PLA, is an “increasingly modern and flexible force” that relies on China’s civilian industrial might and its robust tech sector to drive improvements to build a force aimed at rivaling the US military by mid-century.
As part of that push, the PLA is moving forward on its own nuclear triad, recently revealing the new H-6N as its first nuclear-capable air-to-air refuelable bomber, giving Beijing land, sea and air-deliverable nuclear weapons for the first time.
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China is expected to double the number of its nuclear warheads over the next decade to around 400, the Pentagon analysis says, a key reason the Trump administration has been so eager to include — albeit unsuccessfully — China in arms control talks along with Russia.
While China has so far refused to discuss the issue, the American estimate of 200-odd nuclear warheads currently in the Chinese stockpile marks the first time the US has publicly estimated the number of Chinese nuclear capabilities, a signal of Washington’s growing unease. Even with that expected growth, of course, China’s nuclear force would still be dwarfed by the estimated 3,800 US warheads in active and reserve status.
The nuclear modernization is just part of a larger effort, however.
Underpinning the entire military buildup is the blending of the Chinese civilian and military industrial bases and tech innovation sector — driven by its Military-Civil Fusion Development Strategy — which allows the military to pick the best and most fully developed technologies for its own use.
There’s “not a clear line between the PRC’s civilian and military economies, raising due diligence costs for U.S. and global entities that do not desire to contribute to the PRC’s military modernization,” the report states.
The Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia, said at an American Enterprise Institute event today that the Chinese military is “not intended to be merely a showpiece of Chinese modernity” but is a tool for the government to press its advantage diplomatically around the globe.
“The Communist Party has spent the last several years completely tearing out and rewiring the PLA organizationally with the goal of transforming into a joint force that is more combat ready, innovative and global,” Sbragia said.
Critical to this is the Military-Civil Fusion Development Strategy, which the Pentagon tellingly spends some time detailing in today’s report.
It is meant to link “China’s defense industrial base and its civilian technology and industrial base,” the report states, while “integrating and leveraging science and technology innovations across military and civilian sectors.” By blending military and civilian expertise and knowledge, the PLA has built a system which inserts military requirements into civilian infrastructure, and includes “all relevant aspects of its society and economy for use in competition and war.”
Those structural advantages have led the Pentagon to conclude that China has already achieved parity with—or even exceeded—the United States in several areas, including shipbuilding. The Chinese navy is already the largest in the world, with about 350 ships and submarines. While it has never been tested in combat and cannot claim to be a blue water navy yet since it has rarely strayed too far from its home ports.
The Pentagon is also concerned about China’ 1,250 ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles, with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. The US currently fields a single type of conventional ground-based ballistic missile with a range of 70 to 300 kilometers and no ground launched cruise missiles. The PLA also “has one of the world’s largest forces of advanced long-range surface-to-air systems,” the report notes, including Russian- built S-400s, S-300s, and domestically produced systems.
Given the alarming assessment, Sbragia cautioned today that “the report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet tall, nor, I think, certainly does China either. It clearly faces a number of challenges, and Beijing is working to overcome those, which is really an important point.”
Shipbuilding: Duh! They launched more ships in the past six months than the US launched in three years. (Yes, that's an exaggeration, but by how much?)
Missiles: once again... duh. China's been concentrating on upping their game in that arena for decades. They currently have what I would argue to be an almost ideal blend of quality and quantity, i.e., a relative handful of precision cruise and ballistic missiles coupled with a whole bunch of old but serviceable models in their arsenal.
Air defense: On this one, I would argue "maybe, maybe not." If they are ahead, it's only because the US theory of air power is different than China's. China looks to deny the enemy the use of its airspace while the US has long adhered to the belief that air superiority means ground superiority and so has relied more on a mixture of air superiority fighters and ground attack craft to clear the skies and keep them clear whereas China learned early on that an antiaircraft gun is infinitely easier to make than a jet fighter. That has led to China emphasizing mobile air defense over multirole stealth aircraft.
All told, I agree that China's military isn't ten feet tall.
But neither is ours. The US is missing the point when it points to "civil- military fusion" as an active cooperation between the civilian tech sector and the military, or more accurately the subsuming of the civilian tech sector to the desires, goals, and wishes of the military. China learned what we once knew: a strong economy can support a strong military, but a strong military cannot support a strong economy.
Less military spending now on wasteful programs combined with a dedicated effort to pull America's economy into the 21st Century will result in bigger and more sustainable military budgets later rather than crippling debt and even more painful budget cuts.
【 在 sanhuanlu (三环路) 的大作中提到: 】 : 五角大楼今天坦率地表示：中国军事已经在诸如造船、导弹防御、弹道和巡航导弹制造 : 等领域领先美国 : China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report : "The report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet tall, : " but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant : Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia : By PAUL MCLEARY : on September 01, 2020 at 5:29 PM : WASHINGTON: The Chinese military has already pushed ahead of the US in areas : like shipbuilding, missile defense, ballistic and cruise missile : ...................
巡航导弹也不如了。 美国这些年都干什么了？ 抽抽成什么样了？ 【 在 sanhuanlu (三环路) 的大作中提到: 】 : 五角大楼今天坦率地表示：中国军事已经在诸如造船、导弹防御、弹道和巡航导弹制造 : 等领域领先美国 : China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report : "The report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet tall, : " but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant : Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia : By PAUL MCLEARY : on September 01, 2020 at 5:29 PM : WASHINGTON: The Chinese military has already pushed ahead of the US in areas : like shipbuilding, missile defense, ballistic and cruise missile : ...................
【 在 sanhuanlu (三环路) 的大作中提到: 】 : 五角大楼今天坦率地表示：中国军事已经在诸如造船、导弹防御、弹道和巡航导弹制造 : 等领域领先美国 : China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report : "The report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet tall, : " but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant : Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia : By PAUL MCLEARY : on September 01, 2020 at 5:29 PM : WASHINGTON: The Chinese military has already pushed ahead of the US in areas : like shipbuilding, missile defense, ballistic and cruise missile : ...................
【 在 sanhuanlu (三环路) 的大作中提到: 】 : 五角大楼今天坦率地表示：中国军事已经在诸如造船、导弹防御、弹道和巡航导弹制造 : 等领域领先美国 : China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report : "The report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet tall, : " but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant : Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia : By PAUL MCLEARY : on September 01, 2020 at 5:29 PM : WASHINGTON: The Chinese military has already pushed ahead of the US in areas : like shipbuilding, missile defense, ballistic and cruise missile : ...................
五角大楼今天坦率地表示：中国军事已经在诸如造船、导弹防御、弹道和巡航导弹制造等领域领先美国
China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report
"The report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet tall," but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant
Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia
By PAUL MCLEARY
on September 01, 2020 at 5:29 PM
WASHINGTON: The Chinese military has already pushed ahead of the US in areas like shipbuilding, missile defense, ballistic and cruise missile
construction, the Pentagon warned today in a blunt new assessment.
One of the consistent themes of the annual China Military Power report is
that much of the Chinese modernization effort remains a work in progress.
The People’s Liberation Army, or PLA, is an “increasingly modern and
flexible force” that relies on China’s civilian industrial might and its
robust tech sector to drive improvements to build a force aimed at rivaling the US military by mid-century.
As part of that push, the PLA is moving forward on its own nuclear triad,
recently revealing the new H-6N as its first nuclear-capable air-to-air
refuelable bomber, giving Beijing land, sea and air-deliverable nuclear
weapons for the first time.
Learn more
China is expected to double the number of its nuclear warheads over the next decade to around 400, the Pentagon analysis says, a key reason the Trump
administration has been so eager to include — albeit unsuccessfully —
China in arms control talks along with Russia.
While China has so far refused to discuss the issue, the American estimate
of 200-odd nuclear warheads currently in the Chinese stockpile marks the
first time the US has publicly estimated the number of Chinese nuclear
capabilities, a signal of Washington’s growing unease. Even with that
expected growth, of course, China’s nuclear force would still be dwarfed by the estimated 3,800 US warheads in active and reserve status.
The nuclear modernization is just part of a larger effort, however.
Underpinning the entire military buildup is the blending of the Chinese
civilian and military industrial bases and tech innovation sector — driven by its Military-Civil Fusion Development Strategy — which allows the
military to pick the best and most fully developed technologies for its own use.
There’s “not a clear line between the PRC’s civilian and military
economies, raising due diligence costs for U.S. and global entities that do not desire to contribute to the PRC’s military modernization,” the report states.
The Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia, said at an
American Enterprise Institute event today that the Chinese military is “not intended to be merely a showpiece of Chinese modernity” but is a tool for the government to press its advantage diplomatically around the globe.
“The Communist Party has spent the last several years completely tearing
out and rewiring the PLA organizationally with the goal of transforming into a joint force that is more combat ready, innovative and global,” Sbragia
said.
Critical to this is the Military-Civil Fusion Development Strategy, which
the Pentagon tellingly spends some time detailing in today’s report.
It is meant to link “China’s defense industrial base and its civilian
technology and industrial base,” the report states, while “integrating and leveraging science and technology innovations across military and civilian sectors.” By blending military and civilian expertise and knowledge, the
PLA has built a system which inserts military requirements into civilian
infrastructure, and includes “all relevant aspects of its society and
economy for use in competition and war.”
Those structural advantages have led the Pentagon to conclude that China has already achieved parity with—or even exceeded—the United States in
several areas, including shipbuilding. The Chinese navy is already the
largest in the world, with about 350 ships and submarines. While it has
never been tested in combat and cannot claim to be a blue water navy yet
since it has rarely strayed too far from its home ports.
The Pentagon is also concerned about China’ 1,250 ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles, with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. The US
currently fields a single type of conventional ground-based ballistic
missile with a range of 70 to 300 kilometers and no ground launched cruise
missiles. The PLA also “has one of the world’s largest forces of advanced long-range surface-to-air systems,” the report notes, including Russian-
built S-400s, S-300s, and domestically produced systems.
Given the alarming assessment, Sbragia cautioned today that “the report
does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet tall, nor, I
think, certainly does China either. It clearly faces a number of challenges, and Beijing is working to overcome those, which is really an important
point.”
巨巨就是大卫王，身高不足一米，用上帝之力打倒三米巨人歌利亚
老将说：美爹说假话。
Shipbuilding: Duh! They launched more ships in the past six months than the US launched in three years. (Yes, that's an exaggeration, but by how much?)
Missiles: once again... duh. China's been concentrating on upping their game in that arena for decades. They currently have what I would argue to be an almost ideal blend of quality and quantity, i.e., a relative handful of
precision cruise and ballistic missiles coupled with a whole bunch of old
but serviceable models in their arsenal.
Air defense: On this one, I would argue "maybe, maybe not." If they are
ahead, it's only because the US theory of air power is different than China's. China looks to deny the enemy the use of its airspace while the US has
long adhered to the belief that air superiority means ground superiority and so has relied more on a mixture of air superiority fighters and ground
attack craft to clear the skies and keep them clear whereas China learned
early on that an antiaircraft gun is infinitely easier to make than a jet
fighter. That has led to China emphasizing mobile air defense over multirole stealth aircraft.
All told, I agree that China's military isn't ten feet tall.
But neither is ours. The US is missing the point when it points to "civil-
military fusion" as an active cooperation between the civilian tech sector
and the military, or more accurately the subsuming of the civilian tech
sector to the desires, goals, and wishes of the military. China learned what we once knew: a strong economy can support a strong military, but a strong military cannot support a strong economy.
Less military spending now on wasteful programs combined with a dedicated
effort to pull America's economy into the 21st Century will result in bigger and more sustainable military budgets later rather than crippling debt and even more painful budget cuts.
难得赞同你一次。LOL
【 在 SandersTrump (TrumpSanders) 的大作中提到: 】
: 巨巨就是大卫王，身高不足一米，用上帝之力打倒三米巨人歌利亚
老将说：中国有一个领域超过美国吗？
是真是假，跟印度先练练，比较安全。
【 在 mykr2003 (mememe) 的大作中提到: 】
: 老将说：美爹说假话。
美帝居然承认土鳖有ahead的领域。难得。
哭穷要经费的佯术 -- 王五
【在 futurist(展望未来)的大作中提到：】
：美帝居然承认土鳖有ahead的领域。难得。
又来骗经费了
盹盹盹
Me, dod, send money!
【 在 sanhuanlu (三环路) 的大作中提到: 】
: 五角大楼今天坦率地表示：中国军事已经在诸如造船、导弹防御、弹道和巡航导弹制造
: 等领域领先美国
: China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report
: "The report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet
tall,
: " but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant
: Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia
: By PAUL MCLEARY
: on September 01, 2020 at 5:29 PM
: WASHINGTON: The Chinese military has already pushed ahead of the US in
areas
: like shipbuilding, missile defense, ballistic and cruise missile
: ...................
骗来军费也赶不上天朝了，
只会硬生生把米帝拖入军备竞赛的黑洞
【 在 flanker711(ayu) 的大作中提到: 】
<br>: 又来骗经费了
<br>: 盹盹盹
<br>
China learned what we once knew: a strong economy can support a strong
military, but a strong
military cannot support a strong economy.
【 在 goFan (够范) 的大作中提到: 】
: 骗来军费也赶不上天朝了，
: 只会硬生生把米帝拖入军备竞赛的黑洞
:
: 又来骗经费了
:
: 盹盹盹
:
舔儿，是真是假都是你美爹的话。
有不同意见就对说这话的人去说啊，所以你如果不是低智商的话，应该去驳斥你美爹。而不是对中国要给你做什么什么来印证，你智商低么？
【 在 Tianzi (偷月亮的人) 的大作中提到: 】
: 是真是假，跟印度先练练，比较安全。
器人有所不知，床铺盗用歌颂大卫王的哈利路亚歌，已经被原作者遗孀骂了。
德裔白人没有资格盗用犹太英雄的称号。
【 在 GeorgeCurie (George) 的大作中提到: 】
: 难得赞同你一次。LOL
他吃方便面太多脑子不好使了呗
【 在 WannaCry (Wanna Decryptor) 的大作中提到: 】
: 舔儿，是真是假都是你美爹的话。
: 有不同意见就对说这话的人去说啊，所以你如果不是低智商的话，应该去驳斥你美爹。
: 而不是对中国要给你做什么什么来印证，你智商低么？
巡航导弹也不如了。 美国这些年都干什么了？ 抽抽成什么样了？
【 在 sanhuanlu (三环路) 的大作中提到: 】
: 五角大楼今天坦率地表示：中国军事已经在诸如造船、导弹防御、弹道和巡航导弹制造
: 等领域领先美国
: China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report
: "The report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet
tall,
: " but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant
: Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia
: By PAUL MCLEARY
: on September 01, 2020 at 5:29 PM
: WASHINGTON: The Chinese military has already pushed ahead of the US in
areas
: like shipbuilding, missile defense, ballistic and cruise missile
: ...................
居然造船也超过灯塔国？
【 在 sanhuanlu (三环路) 的大作中提到: 】
: 五角大楼今天坦率地表示：中国军事已经在诸如造船、导弹防御、弹道和巡航导弹制造
: 等领域领先美国
: China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report
: "The report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet
tall,
: " but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant
: Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia
: By PAUL MCLEARY
: on September 01, 2020 at 5:29 PM
: WASHINGTON: The Chinese military has already pushed ahead of the US in
areas
: like shipbuilding, missile defense, ballistic and cruise missile
: ...................
尼玛的，土鳖还在任由美帝瞎叨叨只有两三百颗核弹头。真要有足够摧毁美帝的核力量早就该公布了。为了占些舆论和军控上的小便宜藏着掖着实在太猥琐了，更何况从今以后继续装弱小已经弊大于利，得不偿失了。
【 在 sanhuanlu (三环路) 的大作中提到: 】
: 五角大楼今天坦率地表示：中国军事已经在诸如造船、导弹防御、弹道和巡航导弹制造
: 等领域领先美国
: China Is Ahead in Ship, Missile & Air Defense Tech: DoD Report
: "The report does not claim that China’s military is currently 10 feet
tall,
: " but "Beijing is working to overcome [its faults]," says Deputy Assistant
: Secretary for China, Chad Sbragia
: By PAUL MCLEARY
: on September 01, 2020 at 5:29 PM
: WASHINGTON: The Chinese military has already pushed ahead of the US in
areas
: like shipbuilding, missile defense, ballistic and cruise missile
: ...................
【 在 Tianzi (偷月亮的人) 的大作中提到: 】
: 是真是假，跟印度先练练，比较安全。
这是典型的吃屎狗，屎吃多了，脑梗了，智商跟不上了，逻辑混乱了。
欧美夸人总是毫无保留，动不动完美、震惊、难以相信，传统礼节。
美帝也总是严于律己，居安思危。
绝非大陆宣传部门吹牛之辈可比。
欧美夸人是真夸
你这种也就落个interesting
【 在 Mita (Mita) 的大作中提到: 】
: 欧美夸人总是毫无保留，动不动完美、震惊、难以相信，传统礼节。
: 美帝也总是严于律己，居安思危。
: 绝非大陆宣传部门吹牛之辈可比。
尼玛，美帝竟然承认tg在这些方面领先。
又把米弟领先技术偷走，让米弟无法领先了。
：)