Comments by "Joe Swanson" (@joeswanson733) on "How Japan Hopes to Rival China Militarily" video.

  1. ww2 japanese military size 6 million soldiers japans air force 1,600 aircraft japans navy in ww2 (300,000) (394 ships) Battleships 12 Fleet carriers 21 Light carriers 4 Cruisers 45 Destroyers 141 Submarines 171 JSDF air force 740 aircraft JMSDF has a fleet of 154 ships ground forces 150,000 active personnel chinas army PLA 2,035,000 air force 3,370+ aircraft chinas navy 300,000 active personnel (2022) 535+ ships (2022) 600+ aircraft (2020-21) of course i know advances in weapons tech since. but if we're just talking raw numbers japan is only a shell of it's imperial military size the air force is only 1/2 the size navy 40% the size ground forces 3% the size and even the imperial japanese forces army is 3x bigger than the PLA air force is 47% size of hte PLAA navy is 74% of the PLN if japan were to match china in just numbers (i know quality quantity etc) japans army would need to grow by 13.5 x navy - 3.50 x air force - 4.55 times and im not even counting the missiles and bombers japan would need to make to just catch up. so long story short if japan were serious about beefing up its defenses they should've started 30 years ago.
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