Comments by "M Simon" (@msimon6808) on "The Infographics Show" channel.

  1. American sailors train heavily in damage control. It is very difficult to win an E in that kind of operation and American sailors work very hard to accomplish that. I was a talker in Damage Control Central back in the 60s.
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  2. The most difficult part of the implosion bomb was getting the explosives precisely cast and the detonators precisely timed. Very high speed photography was used to see how the things exploded.
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  3. China has a demographic problem. With a one child policy the citizens are reluctant to go to war.
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  4. Power required goes up as the cube of speed. You might want to recalculate.
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  5. Yes. American propaganda. China really has 40 nuke carriers with electric catapults. They are very stealth. No one has ever seen them.
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  6. And their first nuclear powered carrier with a steam catapult will be on the ways when? The USN is already going to electric catapults. The Chinese are two generations behind.
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  7. A carrier group at combat readiness can move a mile every 2 minutes. In 4 minutes they are not where the missiles were aimed at. Even counting nuke explosives. In 6 minutes they are totally not where expected. The missiles need to be very fast. Or fired in a barrage. But then you have nuke explosions interfering with the other missiles. It is a very difficult problem.
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  8. A gun behind every blade of grass is no easy problem.
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  9. The hang over from the one child policy will last 20 years. Even two children does not translate into a willingness to be aggressive among the population. A four child policy might.
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