Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Binkov's Battlegrounds" channel.

  1. Real peace? When in history has that ever happened? Self-defense Navy of Japan is the world's third largest navy and Asia's second largest navy. While competitively being second is worse than coming first, this is not a foot race. Japanese navy furthermore is more professional and better trained than PLAN personnel and it's sailors (being mainly volunteers) are more dedicated to sea warfare than the Chinese. Japan furthermore is an island archipelago, which geopolitically focuses the Japanese on combined fleets sea and air defence, more than a land power like China.
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  2. I am glad this video is hypothetical & while in such a scenario, it is somewhat likely that both the Royal Navy & Royal Air Force would be destroyed by attacking US forces (without naval & air assistance & army reinforcements from other Commonwealth countries like Canada & Australia which was not canvassed in your video), the US army would face very high casualties attacking into UK cities. Even if the US succeeded in destroying or forcing the regular British army forces to capitulate, it would have the same problems it faced in occupying Iraq, with considerably more attrition over the same timescale. The population of the UK is over twice that of Iraq. Seeing that the US forces have already ignominiously exited Iraq, how long do you think they would remain in armed occupation of the UK without quitting the scene after 0.5 million deaths?
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  3. The longer this Russian-Ukraine war drags out, gets politically and economically worse and worse in Russia. The last meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about a week ago was cool by Xi, so the Russians cannot expect substantial military equipment support, let alone Chinese personnel support from their "ally". Putin is in a very bad place now.
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  4. Insane, Han-centric paranoia. China has been wiping out or forceably integrating (obey us or die) other East Asians for nearly 3000 years. These are mostly not white people, Russians excepted. It acts like the Roman Empire, but worse, and was not as multi-ethnic as the Roman Empire was. Romans was always the minority in their Empire after the Caesars, but they did not try wiping out a subject people, Carthaginians excepted.
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  5. The "much needed resources", I.e. oil, did not last long to supply Japan. After fixing their torpedoes and selecting Fremantle and Garden Island as a base, American submarines started a offensive against Japanese shipping, that campaigned so well by 1944, the Japanese were growing short of oil in their home islands as they could not substantially tranship it from Indonesia.
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  6. The British Army or the land forces of the United Kingdom. The appellation "Royal" (e.g. Royal Navy, Royal Air Force) is not used for any British army unit above battalion size.
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  7. Russian anti-ship missiles are fearsome with larger warheads, but they do generally lack less manoeuvrability than the NATO ASMs. Speed is not everything in the Hypersonic missile hype.
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  8. Yes, these are important warships and apparently both HMAS Adelaide and HMAS Canberra are the largest (longest and heaviest) warships ever in the RAN
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  9. Yes this is BS, like the CCP's non-existant fake AI and it's combusting lithium cars. China is like a fragile shell. Appears strong from the outside, but one crack and it collapses inwards.
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  10. It's called deterring Xi Jinping from waging war. Almost certainly if it came to a shooting war, the Philippines is key to blockading ports and airports on China's southern mainland, and in keeping supplies and troops going to Taiwan's aid open. Xi's generals better think twice before engaging Taiwan.
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  11. Depends in that 20 years, whether world war 3 breaks out, and that would be within 10 years, i.e. before Xi Jinping gets too old to rule. He is currently 69. Judging by the sabre ratting by the CCP over Taiwan, the odds are 50/50 chance that there will be a world war in 10 years. Even with more destroyers and frigates than the USN, China will be disadvantaged at sea due to ship crews and combined fleet inexperience and poor ASW capabilities.
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  12. About bloody time, but like any ship build strategy, it takes time to design the ship, then build it. When that's done a new class of warship needs extensive sea handling trials and weapons system testing, let alone crewing this new class of warship and training crews to skilfully operate it under combined fleet action. This is a decade long strategy and the upcoming likely war with China in the next few years, this ship will not be ready for such a conflict. Unless the CCP delay their war until well into the 2030s.
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  13. No comment on desecrating war graves of any nation, but this will not be forgotten. Hector Waller was the well-liked captain of HMAS Perth and I agree, he and his crew (and the crew of USS Houston) were poorly served by Allied command, even with scanty intelligence of the Japanese at that time. Captain Waller also elected to go down with his ship, which was by no means common. His surviving crew, even more unfortunately, were captured on nearby Java by the Japanese and few returned home after being brutalized when captured and forced into concentration and labour camps across SE Asia. The Japanese (of the time) were notoriously savage towards their war captives & the wounded, which was not a few isolated cases, but common across the Japanese armed services of that era. Also not forgotten.
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  14. Sunk 4 of their carriers with many of their pilots and planes.
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  15.  @alganhar1  Yes, good analysis and I will add one thing. The IJN and the Japanese army never really got along. There was far too much rivalry between these armed services than there should have been. Particularly for resources and planes (which got more scant as the war went on), but also in strategic direction, tactical support and leadership. They really did not complement each other in the Pacific War, which made the American offensive from 1943 onwards, easier and cheaper (in terms of their own casualties) to carry out.
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  16. Even if ready and capable with all systems ready in this PLA supercarrier in 2025 (probably unlikely to.be ironed-out seeing existing teething problems with the Ford Class carriers after 3 years of operations and the propensity of the CCP to lie and cover-up), then the PLAPN will have one supercarrier (perhaps) and 2 smaller carriers available in 2025, compared to the US's 11 Nimitz and Ford class carriers. I think the tactical and strategic capabilites still go with the US in carrier fleet engagements (without allies participation in a Coalition war).
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  17. To add another layer to this voluble and incorrect statement, the IJN was at an advatange compared to the USN in regards to more carriers, better planes and torpedoes in 1942 in the Pacific War, but it still didn't win. PLAN is no-where near that level of capabilities that the IJN was at in 1942 against the USN in that era, so in a shooting war, you will see a retreat of PLAN to their naval bases where they will be picked off by USN carrier attacks and submarine incursions.
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  18. No, but it is expensive. Far too late for World War 3 upcoming with China. This plan is still a wish list. It should have been mooted a decade ago
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  19. The PLAN carriers are a joke. Seriously, as is their under developed and under-trained fleet air arm with their launch and carrying capacity so considering other PLAN warships like nuclear subs, u need to have some degree of skepticism with regards to technical capabilities of PLAN subs. Harder to assess the operational capabilities of PLAN submariner crews.
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  20. Need a war preparation tax. A very unpopular idea, but when war comes, you have to fight with what you have. Naval strategy is build strategy
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  21. The carriers are important in fleet on fleet battles, like in the WW2 Pacific War, but the USN probably need only deploy 2 carriers in the entire Western Pacific at any one time. Why risk these multi-billion dollar supercarriers from being hit by PLA anti-ship missiles or PLAN sub torpedoes? The PLAN carriers are utterly useless; not right type of carrier based aircraft and no practise by the PLAN sailors and airmen in launching and recovering aircraft. They are moving show targets. That's all.
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