#1 2016-09-15 11:12:37
Cricky!
Last edited by GooberMcNutly (2016-09-15 11:14:22)
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#2 2016-09-15 17:31:56
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#3 2016-09-15 17:45:22
Wow, so they skipped all the fun and games of the space race and went right to the space age's great irrelevant period with their own skylab. Wake me when it falls on some aboriginies.
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#5 2016-09-15 20:57:50
Look at it this way, they could be spending their money on aircraft carriers, subs and destroyers.
Please, feel free to send your cash into the void.
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#6 2016-09-16 13:14:55
Platymingo wrote:
Look at it this way, they could be spending their money on aircraft carriers, subs and destroyers.
They are.
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#7 2016-09-19 12:02:09
Platymingo wrote:
Look at it this way, they could be spending their money on aircraft carriers, subs and destroyers.
Please, feel free to send your cash into the void.
They live in a First World country, able to spend money on both things. I'm old enough to remember when this country had that kind of surplus...
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#8 2016-09-20 06:17:44
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Platymingo wrote:
Look at it this way, they could be spending their money on aircraft carriers, subs and destroyers.
Please, feel free to send your cash into the void.They live in a First World country, able to spend money on both things. I'm old enough to remember when this country had that kind of surplus...
I really think the Chinese have been pretty cagey about how they are spending on their military. They are developing their own weapons, subs, carriers, and stealth aircraft, but they aren't building in a big fashion. The conflicts they are starting is over chunks of rock (next to important shipping channels, I know) owned by relatively weak opponents. They don't need a lot of high tech gear just yet.
With only my distant view to go on, I'd say Chinese leadership don't want to mass produce big ticket weapons, because they'll spook the international community (not that we'll do much), but more importantly, they don't want to mess with their own economy.
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#9 2016-09-20 07:13:18
Platymingo wrote:
With only my distant view to go on, I'd say Chinese leadership don't want to mass produce big ticket weapons, because they'll spook the international community (not that we'll do much), but more importantly, they don't want to mess with their own economy.
I think the Chinese are happy to have Western companies subsidize the industrialization of their country. They are good students of history and know that capacity is the important part. You can convert a machine that makes car radios into one that makes military radios nearly overnight. Once they know they can do it quickly and have the technology, why waste time stockpiling equipment that will be obsolete once delivered? That's what *our* military does and it's crippling us at the cost of instant readiness for any mission anywhere at any time, regardless of cost.
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