Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Japan's New Toy: The Tomahawk Missile" video.

How many navies have huge carriers with Omnirole Stealth STOVL strike fighters on them, and missile frigates with professionally-trained crews with a naval history measured in hundreds of years? Russia's "navy" is a sad joke next to Japan's. While Japan has 2 new active Izumo class 814ft long carriers that are being populated with F-35Bs, China caught their rust bucket Ukrainian carrier on fire trying to learn how to operate a carrier. China is using ramped Russian style carrier approach with copies of the Su-33, never demonstrated cyclic ops or a blue water deployment, just a dog and pony show for Xi with everyone running around in perfectly clean uniforms like a North Korean parade. China will have their face kicked-in vs Japan in any type of naval conflict. They are childishly-inexperienced in a real man's naval capability.
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@JinKee Belt and Road initiative is probably one of the most ill-conceived concepts in trade and transportation in human history, doomed to utter failure on its own just because of geography.
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@jakemon4550 No such thing as the petrodollar. There is an American USD with the backing of the North American continent and all that entails. Petrodollar is a misnomer fomented by the Soviets and repeated endlessly in US and Euro universities to impressionable kids, who get degrees from inexperienced professors and then think they understand economics.
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@billweberx Yup. It takes about a century (10 decades) to develop an initial competent navy that can just function, not necessarily win anything, but just operate with sustainable losses from accidents. That's assuming a competent military and political leadership, training, and shipyard base. Russia has never really had such a force. Their main naval yards were in Ukraine. They couldn't operate without significant losses, which were emphasized by how incompetent their submariner force was, but plagued their black and ice water armadas as well. Russians and Chinese are not seafaring peoples at heart or in their DNA. Swedes, Dutch, Brits, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Japanese, Italians, and Greeks, are. The US was born from Brits, Dutch, French, and Spaniards, and rose to be the most seafaring people on the planet. No other competent navy emerged dominant after WWII, then the US throttled up into an era of sea power the world has never seen. A new generation of sea power has been created by the US where net-centric low observable platforms in space, the air, on the surface, and below the surface work together in unison without much interference from planners far away. Japan and the US are allies in the Pacific, with the US enabling Japan with cutting edge net-centric weapons and stealth technology, while China rapidly tries to play catch-up in a game where no matter what they do, they can't control access to their critical sea ports.
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@billweberx I’m agreeing with and supplanting what you stated.
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I've been studying and participating in Foreign Military Sales programs since the 1970s. The US has been top dog in that space that whole time, and the FMS packages have only gotten bigger. As the US has strategically withdrawn from Europe and the Pacific, orders for US FMS have increased dramatically.
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@manners7483 Demand for "fresh dollars" in failing nation states has never been higher, while smart ones have already DFI'd into the US.
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@insboswiz Japan out-classes China and Russia. They’re one of the only navies that has 2 large carriers with STOVL VLO Omnirole Fighter capability. The quality of their equipment and institutional knowledge out-class the Russians and Chinese by centuries. Those things matter, especially experience combined with quality equipment and partnership with the world’s only real dominant navy.
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@insboswiz No, Queen Elizabeth just returned from deployment and the UK only has received a small contingent of F-35Bs so far. The USMC had to augment Queen Elizabeth's deployment with their F-35Bs, pilots, and maintainers to have a deployable air wing on QE. Japan has heavier displacement vessels manned by highly-trained sailors with more modern weapons. The country rankings don't take relevant factors like that into account on most websites, where only raw numbers are counted. For example, North Korea has more submarines than Japan, yet they are mostly diesel-electric coastal and midget subs for delivering NorK SOF frogmen to conduct reconnaissance and sabotage missions (like they did when I was in Korea in the 1990s). Those subs are junk, run aground, and are noisy-not much displacement or weapons capability. This is what Peter Zeihan is accurately referring to with his correct assessment of rankings.
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@JinKee Where did you get that idea from? F-22 production was killed by traitors within DoD and the White House because Russia and China couldn't have 200 Raptors in each of their backyards. There are still at least 120 combat-coded F-22As that are being upgraded regularly. F-35/JSF is proliferating like the F-16 into Europe and the Pacific Rim + Australia. Over 875 F-35s have been delivered so far, almost half of those to foreign nations. Japan will be the largest foreign operator of F-35s in the Pacific, aside from the US. 6th Gen is a system of systems incorporating baseline JSF technologies for networking, adding new Omnirole Interceptors/Strikers, and Unmanned Weapons platforms for both the USN and USAF. F-35s will be a large integral component force of the 6th Gen matrix.
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