Question about China's fleet

Red Brow · 11-11-12, 12:44 AM

Anyone with the money can add new ships to a brown water navy and shove it to sea as a blue water navy. But how many generations would it take China to come up with a blue water force of seamen and admirals? Yes, Japan did so in short order when taking on the Russian Pacific Fleet. But most attempts at coming up with a real bona fide blue water war fleet by simply building ships don't do so well. Example, the Kaiser's fleet in WWI - nice ships, great arty (better aimed), actually better ships and weapons than the Brits had (such as having German shells that actually detonated inside the enemy ships, rather than NOT detonating inside the enemy ships, such as many of the Brit shells) - but when the chips were down the Germans just were not up to exploiting their advantage. It was a case of a young navy (that had before the war toasted their chance to one day take on the Brit navy) but when actually facing a first class navy with hundreds of years of success and tradition, the Germans just weren't up to it.

China hopes to become a power house with its hoped for blue water navy, but really, wouldn't India out class it for another generation, not to mention the US Pacific fleet and, well, even Japan?

Well, maybe I am wrong - what do the old salt beards here say about this?

11-11-12, 12:44 AM	#1
Red Brow A-ganger Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Colorado Posts: 72 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Question about China's fleet Anyone with the money can add new ships to a brown water navy and shove it to sea as a blue water navy. But how many generations would it take China to come up with a blue water force of seamen and admirals? Yes, Japan did so in short order when taking on the Russian Pacific Fleet. But most attempts at coming up with a real bona fide blue water war fleet by simply building ships don't do so well. Example, the Kaiser's fleet in WWI - nice ships, great arty (better aimed), actually better ships and weapons than the Brits had (such as having German shells that actually detonated inside the enemy ships, rather than NOT detonating inside the enemy ships, such as many of the Brit shells) - but when the chips were down the Germans just were not up to exploiting their advantage. It was a case of a young navy (that had before the war toasted their chance to one day take on the Brit navy) but when actually facing a first class navy with hundreds of years of success and tradition, the Germans just weren't up to it. China hopes to become a power house with its hoped for blue water navy, but really, wouldn't India out class it for another generation, not to mention the US Pacific fleet and, well, even Japan? Well, maybe I am wrong - what do the old salt beards here say about this?