GarryB Tue Jan 12, 2021 12:26 am
The US has enormous pockets and literally prints its own money... for last century and until quite recently it had no rivals... no one really even came close... at best the Soviets had four anti sub Kiev class carriers that could also carry big anti ship missiles, and there were Kirov class cruisers and Oscar class subs.... everything else was not very scary to them at all... though late model Victors were getting rather good and the Akula was dangerous as was the Sierras... and the Alpha was a surprise... the thing is that there were never a lot of them and they weren't used aggressively trying to take Americas place in any way.
Now the Chinese are building lots of new ships and Russia is clearly in the process of doing more than just having a fleet of tiny corvettes and frigates... even their corvettes and frigates are 21st century in terms of electronics.
In the US Navy the only ships that are net centric are their AEGIS cruisers together with their new carriers... their smaller ships are not so tied in and digital...
It is a bit like on land where the west has the same old 70 vehicles they have had for almost 50 years and Russia is in the process of introducing not one new family, but three new families of scratch designed new vehicles... like the navy it will take time to get it all in to service and working properly but all vehicles have excellent sensors and weapons and communications systems and are all linked in together as a proper team...
The Navy and Air Force are keen to do the same.
The west is left behind and has a lot of work to do but the idea that they will get together and develop something they can all agree on... because it needs to link together with HATO allies when they cooperate... who sets the standard... US, France, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain... etc etc...
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