“No one would have said their submarine force was superior to ours. “Let’s bear in mind that the Soviet navy was more numerous than we were, sometimes vastly so,” James Holmes, the JC Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College, told Navy Times. The outlet quoted reports as saying that China has six major and two minor shipyards, while the US has seven shipyards making large and deep draft ships for the navy and coast guard.Ĭhina isn’t just leaving the United States in its dust.īetween 20, Beijing launched more submarines, warships, amphibious vessels, and auxiliaries than the combined navies of Germany, India, Spain, and the United Kingdom.īut some experts say that while size matters at sea, it’s not the only thing that counts. That presents a real threat,” Del Toro was quoted as saying by CNN. “They have 13 shipyards, in some cases their shipyard has more capacity – one shipyard has more capacity than all of our shipyards combined. One underlying reason for China’s frenetic output is the number of shipyards. That compared to five and eight for the US in the same period. But the problem is that China is aiming to have 420 ships by 2025 and 460 by 2030, as per The Pentagon.Īs per China Power, Beijing added 18 ships in 2016 and another 14 in 2017.

Reclaime pro 2017