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Depends on whether or not there is something to copy...

• nabla9 7y ago
  Perfect example: Aircraft carrier operations. The US has painfully acquired the expertise and skills over half century. Thousands of aviators and sailors have died over decades until the current level of expertise has been reached. Chinese have studied and copied everything. They translated USN carrier vessel flight deck manuals into Chinese and adopted it almost verbatim. Even the colors are the same. That's really smart thing to do. Trying to innovate and do your own thing starting from scratch because you have the false sense of pride and need be different would be stupid.
  • indymike 7y ago
    It is closer to a century USS Langley in 1919: https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/01.htm https://www.navsource.org/archives/02/01.htm
  • bayesian_horse 7y ago
    The US Navy had to innovate on carrier operations, because there was nobody to copy it from.
  • JetSpiegel 7y ago
    Isn't the US Navy colliding with container ships because their pilots are sleeping at the wheel? Use it or lose it.