Bryden Spurling, a RAND think tank researcher, told Newsweek that China's navy is rapidly growing but still has a "long way to go" to match the US.
  • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Yep tonnage is a far better metric than number of hulls (while still not perfect obviously) If one country has 10 speedboats with machine-guns on the front and the other has an aircraft carrier it is slightly misleading to say the first countries navy is ten times larger.