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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
The Chinese Navy on average conducts 3.5 submarine patrols a year since 2000, that is out of a fleet of over 55 submarines. Our fleet of around 50 subs does 100 patrols a year on average.
Yea our ships leave port and do stuff that is why they wear out so fast!
I would rather have crews wearing out ships that have ships and crews sit around doing nothing. Crew training is the most important single thing in the Navy, without highly trained crews we might as well be the Saudi Navy... |
Don't be so sure. It is not clear what made up one of those patrols. If they didn't count the little training cruises, then the ratio might be a lot more even.
Patrols are valuable experience that brief training cruises can't match, but neither are patrols
substitutes for those training cruises. Even with on board computerized trainers you can't do some training on patrol and that affects your readiness. So America with its huge number of patrols probably is
not making the most efficient use of its days at sea, from a proficiency perspective.