>>583713
Because one shitposter having fun on a chinese forum is not news.
OP pics IS NOT SOMETHING OFFICIAL it's something lifted from a random internet post and presented as official and reposted on countless "military news" outlet so YOU the fucking western public (but also the people that have to actually read specialized outlet for a living) go "ahahah China is pathetic".
Meanwhile China forking out capital ships pretty much every other month is not reported on.
It's a fucking gaslighting op and an obvious one at that.
Do you what the list of what the PLAN has been doing during Obongo presidency?
1x Type 001 (Russian style STOBAR) soviet rebuilt and operational.
1x Type 001A (Russian style STOBAR) chinese variant, built and in testing. 2x Type 002 (US style CATOBAR) are in construction.
2x Type 901 (AOE Supply ships).
6x Type 071 LPD 1 in construction (possibly switch to LHD).
15x Type 072A LST Unknown number in construction (possibly switching type to a stealthy one?).
2x Type 055 (US style cruiser) - 4 more in construction.
12x Type 052D (US style destroyer) - (+4 type 052C). 6 in construction.
30x Type 054A frigate (European style destroyer) - switching to Type 054C and building, unknown number in construction.
But the PLAN is still very much a soviet style point defense fleet with emphasis on small boats.
40+x Type 056 Corvette (Chinese take on LCS, AKA doing it right) 12 in construction, unknown number planed.
XXXx Type 022 (fast attack missile boat) unknow numbers, I'm not kidding. No one knows how many they have. It's anywhere between 75 and 150. Wiki has a sauce saying that from first cuts in 2005 to 2012 they've built 83… They each carries 8 missiles that are some sort of unholy mix of an Exocet (behavior) and Kalibr (range, supersonic terminal boost).
The real lag is the subs with only 2 (type 095) SSN that are on par with their equivalent.
But they've been ammasing a very nice very quiet SSK fleet to compensate (12 improved Kilos, 12 modified Chinese Kilos, Song-class, unknown numbers of Yuan-class that are similar in perf to latest EU SSK with AIP and all).
Note that a Song-class "sunk" the Kitty Hawk in a excercise in 2006 (it surfaced within visual range to say hello and had been shadowing it for god knows how long, slipping past a dozen of US/Tawainese/Japanese ships and 2 subs…). That's the SSK class they considered was obsolete…
Do you want to know what the USN did in the meantime?
6x LPD (thank god for the San Antonio-class, let's not forget they have to replace 35 ships though, with a less wide range of application but about the same weight to move around…).
7x DDG (of a very VERY old design, 1 is a flight IIA IIRC, also they 51 Olivier Hazard Perry-class frigate).
1x CG (I will not call the Zumwalt a destroyer, also let's not forget it replaces 5 Ticon…).
11x LCS gunboat (for the cost of 2 carriers).
1x carrier (that replace 1 carrier).
10x attack subs (that part looks good right? Until you realize they and the 3 seawolf replace 26 Los-Angeles…)
Because the thing that you cunts don't want to see is how many ships the USN is putting to pasture, when the Chinese aren't putting anything out they still have their entire fleet of 1990's and early 2000's of soviet style destroyers and frigates.
Meanwhile the USN is trying to get rid of it's collection of cold war rust buckets and is therefore at a VERY HIGH rate of new ships introduction largely trying to put modern and better ships to replace the old ones (on a 3:1 ratio).
Yet they're dwarfed by China because multiple Chinese yards are working 24/7 on multiple berths.
When was the last time you've heard of a country putting out 1 carrier, 2 amphibious assault ships, 2 cruiser, 6 destroyers, 3 subs, and an assortment of auxiliary/smaller ships within a year? Because for me it's somewhere between Cold War and WWII levels of construction. That's also the thing most of those went from the design board to a dozen of active ships within a few years. Just slightly modifying the Arleigh Burke took 20 years…
So, yes the USN has a lot more ships but at that rhythm not for long, and given it takes the US congress ten year to change the color of the paint gender neutral bathroom of the pentagon, decision to do something about it need to be taken this legislature, because if you listen to the Chinese psy-ops and wake up in 2025 as THEY WANT YOU TO, it will be far far too late.