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>It’s not clear whether China’s industrial capacity is as great as the US was then PRC shipbuilding passed 40 million deadweight tons a couple years ago, that'
by maxglute 3y ago
>It’s not clear whether China’s industrial capacity is as great as the US was then
PRC shipbuilding passed 40 million deadweight tons a couple years ago, that's comparable to peak 1944 US production during WW2, but sustained during peacetime and still growing.
But IMO, industrial capacity worth tracking is the harder count highend ordnances that can be stockpiled enmass. CCTV7 showed off automated factories that produce 1000 cruise missle components a day. A few weeks of production = enough theatre cruise missiles to satuate entire US+co hardware in region. Ultimately, peer war boils down to making things go boom and and magazine depth at scale.
- tivert 3y ago> CCTV7 showed off automated factories that produce 1000 cruise missle components a day. Do you have a link for that which is not this terrible Youtube video with a text-to-speech narration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoObgUTsZ0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoObgUTsZ0M.
- maxglute 3y agohttps://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1634y1g7KR/?from=search https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1634y1g7KR/?from=search Not better quality, but full documentary "forging flying swords" in mandarin about history of PLA missile development. Factory is the the final segment.