"Dave Kearton" wrote in message ...
"Peter Kemp" wrote in message
news | On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 02:44:22 GMT, "T3" wrote:
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| Do they have a plan? Almost certainly. Do we need to panic now?
| absolutely not. Currently they can't seriously challenge the USN -
| hell the RN could take on the PLAN on and have a good chance of a win
| if it was more than 200nm from land to eliminate a few thousand of
| their short range fighters.
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You could even do it inshore if the fleet was protected by EP-3s on CAP



Cheers

Dave Kearton
This topic should be merged with other topic on China's new DDG
PLAN certainly cannot be understand i doubt RN can hold up against
PLAN near chinese mainland considering the amount of missile boats
and minelayers they have.
But that said PLAN can do very little other be defensive force but
they spending a lot of money to rectify that. They are building 3 new
destroyers order 2 sovremenny for $1.4 billion dollars and 8 Kilo
submarines for 2.4 billion. So definetly throwing a lot of money at
improving their navy. Also there is massive rivalry going on in E Asia
between India, china, S korea and Japan, while current Japan has the
best navy in asia only time will tell which country will come out a
ahead in the near future.