China's navy battle force has more than tripled in size in only two decades

[Skybird]

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/05/c...dst/index.html

China's shipbuilding numbers are staggering -- dwarfing even the US efforts of World War II. China built more ships in one year of peace time (2019) than the US did in four of war (1941-1945).

A - rapidly decreasing - technological advantage gets you so far only, and not further. From one point on, superior numbers and the capability to compensate losseds by factors quick than the enemy, simply overwhelm said enemy by force of much bigger numbers.



In the 70s and 80s many said NATO would have gained air superiority due to tehcnically advanced ifhgers, compensating for superior numbers of the Warsaw Pact. But there are quite some veteran pilots from that age that both say the technological upper hand of NATO was being overestiumated, and that it thus would not have been sufficient to compensate for the numerical superiority of the WP.



And different to the Warsaw Pact back then, China is of equal technological capability, and superior economic power, and more favourable logistics lines.



It does not look good. The outlook looks even worse.