Going Large -- Defense News
Asian Navies Shift to Bigger Vessels, Downplay Littoral Ops.
TAIPEI - As Western navies build fewer aircraft carriers, destroyers and submarines, Asian navies are moving in the opposite direction, ignoring the littorals with construction and procurement of larger warships and submarines.
The U.S. and Europe have stepped back from larger platforms designed for the Cold War and invested in smaller platforms such as the U.S. Navy's Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). But this is not the case in East Asia and the Pacific, where there have been increases in spending on destroyers and submarines in Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, said Bob Nugent, vice president of naval advisory services at AMI International, based in Seattle.
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My Comment: This massive buildup is happening at the same time that America's naval presence in the region is in decline (even with the new US military strategy re-focus on the Pacific region). Coincidence .... no. A vacu
The U.S. and Europe have stepped back from larger platforms designed for the Cold War and invested in smaller platforms such as the U.S. Navy's Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). But this is not the case in East Asia and the Pacific, where there have been increases in spending on destroyers and submarines in Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, said Bob Nugent, vice president of naval advisory services at AMI International, based in Seattle.
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My Comment: This massive buildup is happening at the same time that America's naval presence in the region is in decline (even with the new US military strategy re-focus on the Pacific region). Coincidence .... no. A vacuum is taking shape with the U.S> decline, and everyone in the region is now rushing in to fill the void.
Read more ....
My Comment: This massive buildup is happening at the same time that America's naval presence in the region is in decline (even with the new US military strategy re-focus on the Pacific region). Coincidence .... no. A vacuum is taking shape with the U.S> decline, and everyone in the region is now rushing in to fill the void.