Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "China’s Junk Aircraft Carrier, World’s Highest Accident Rate,Won’t Fly Jets,Lowest True Combat Power" video.

The PLAN is submarine fodder to hostile submarines.This will force the PLAN to run convoys to protect themselves from submarine attacks. Convoy sailing requires considerable commander training and limits the individual tactical manoeuvre flexibility of warships. Furthermore, PLAN will be forced to transit in shallow coastal waters to reduce the submarine threat. This makes their ships more vulnerable to sea mines and land fired anti-ship missiles and hostile land based warplanes. XI Jinping likes the power of his navy but he is ignorant of the growing opposition to it and he and his admirals have no cohesive plan to deal with submarine threats of a growing coalition hostile navies and to even mitigate against being badly mauled by US carrier forces, other than not sailing PLAN carriers at all, and even then a docked carrier is an easy target. Because the PLAN rarely practise launch and recovery of aircraft from their carriers, one suspects that the PLAN have no confidence in their naval offensive or defensive capabilities of their carriers as they are hardly training at all. They are just useless targets for a hostile navy that would quickly destroy them.
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Geopolitical reality check; the IJN in 1941-42 was a real and potent threat to the USN and then had about double the carriers in the Pacific, with better long-range planes in the A6M Zero, better trained naval pilots at the beginning of the Pacific War and better torpedoes (the USN Mark 14 torpedo was a real lemon). Hence it was within the means of the IJN to win the naval war against the USN in 1942, even though that didn't happen; victory and staying power of the USN in that year was a close-run thing against the might of the IJN. Computer simulation wargaming warning of an imminent defeat of the USN in a war with China is both ridiculous and a political statement (pressuring congress to cough up more money for the navy through panic). The case with the PLAN is that it is not even near the threat of the IJN in 1942 despite there being more warships in the PLAN, especially destroyers, than the USN. The PLAN is barely a blue water navy, it's carriers are sitting ducks and it is hampered by lack of nuclear powered ships and long-range capabilities, training for it's sailors and in anti-submarine warfare. Furthermore, thanks to the control freak mentality of Xi Jinping, it's admirals (unlike Isorocku Yamamoto) are not at all tactical innovators with a rigid command structure at the behest of one-man's decision (Xi's), which is a gridlocked one, especially in a war. The PLAN has nothing but a reactionary plan to low-level harass the Philippines Coast Guard and navy, but even that plan is backfiring against them.
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