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Chinese civilian firm starts mass production of Mach 7 missiles at low cost (www.scmp.com)
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Beijing-based Lingkong Tianxing Technology releases video showing the YKJ-1000 striking a target in a desert testing range.

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[–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Honestly, people who think the US can win even a non-nuclear war against China are delusional. Look at how the US helped win WW2 - mass production, being the arsenal of democracy. Germany had better planes than the US. Germany invented way more ground breaking wonder weapons. It didn't matter. The German tanks were better, but they were drowned in a flood of Shermans. Germany had fantastically advanced u boats. The US produced liberty ships faster than Hitler could sink them. The US even kept the Soviet Union afloat through mass lend lease aid.

Now compare US and Chinese production figures. China literally has 200x the shipbuilding capacity of the US. They're the workshop of the world. I imagine US vs China would play very similarly to the US vs Germany in WW2. The US may have more sophisticated toys, but they'll be drowned in the flood.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I get what you are saying and I know I am being that guy but there has been a lot of historical inaccuracies that continue to this day in your post.

    Whatt you mean by better. Doctrinally I'd say the allies were may more advanced. German vehicles (including planes)broke down more required way more labor to repair. In fact most of the german army was horse drawn. Most German "wonder weapons" had huge glaring downsides that made them impractical and as you pointed out were fielded in small numbers because it was a lot of last ditch not ready or well thought out things. German jets could not stay in the air long. And if we look at non jets German planes arguably were worse than allied fighters. P-47 did better at higher altitude had an easier time to kill other fighters due to armament of its german counter parts and could take a beating like a redheaded stepchild the likes of which would destroy German fighters.

    German tanks broke down a lot and could not move great distances. On the subject of tanks, sherman's were not ment to fight tanks this was before the USA adopted the main battle tank. But they could go farther and faster on the same amount of tread of a German tank and had comparable armor to a tiger due to armor slope. Just didn't have the gun the german tanks had.

    Meanwhile allied advancements in tech were way less showy. Radio communication advancements, time on target math, radar, gyro stabilized turrets, proximity fueses... I could go on for example US artillery was just leagues faster than Germany could ever hope to be.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Reading your post I'm reminded of the Shwerer Gustav which were the biggest canons ever made, shot a 7 tonne 3.6m projectile and obliterated basically any target of the time.. Objectively impressive.

    However.. the Germans only built 2 of them and it took so long that the battle they were explicitly designed for was well over by the time they were completed, only 1 was ever fired and wasn't really needed for that battle either, they cost $7m Reichsmarks each (~$62 mil USD in 2025), 1400+ tonnes of steel, required a crew of 2,750 and two flak battalions for protection (~2000 additional men). Not so great when you read the fine-print.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    That’s great, but all the US or even a regional power like India needs to do is to cut off or intercept oil tankers leaving the Persian Gulf or entering the Malacca straight and China’s war machine would grind to a halt within a year.

    China may have the world’s largest navy but only a few dozen of their ships are large enough to project power away from their coastline.

    The carriers and ships they do have that can project power will need to travel through a handful of choke points making them targets for air and sea power.

    China knows this, which is why they’ve stayed their hand when it comes to Taiwan.

    Yes the flow of consumer goods will stop to the US and will be painful and there is much we need to do to rebuild our manufacturing base. But China isn’t going to be able to ramp up production to bury us.

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