Chinese navy by end of 2019

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With all these positive feedbacks of the Chinese naval build up one question will always remain unanswered and that question is that - can they operate in the Indian Ocean via Straits of Malacca freely. Do they have experience of naval warfare to come to Indian Ocean and face a very well experienced and experienced Indian Navy. It is 4000 km away operation and ship and submarines and especially built with copied and reverse engineered technology will breakdown, - do they have large enough repair facilities to refit and get back in the fight?

I do not believe so! It is their posturing which the Indian arm chair admirals are afraid of.

If india sinks one submarine or one destroyer, there will be a huge loss of prestige for them. Then they will run back home with tail in between their legs.

It really happened in 1905 when imperial Russian Navy came east to settle scores with Japan. The battle in the Gulf of Japan was over in 45 minutes with most of the Russian naval ships at the bottom of sea. Reason were that tired old Russian sailors after a long voyage faced a well rested and Clever Japanese Force trained on Western principles and they defeated a mighty Russian navy.
There are other ways into the IOR that do not include the Straits of Malacca of which only Indonesia can control.

Most of the Chinese surface fleet is powered by pre-Tienanmen Pielstick engines that are produced under French license.

If China is to operate so far from its shores it must have a substantial fleet replenishment capability as most of the String of Pearls is not cleared for military use.

If China is to make its way into the IOR it could only operate far away so that India's land based aircraft wouldn't have range to catch them. The air defence capabilities of the Junk 15 are laughable and provide no credible fleet defence. With no eyes in the sky the Chinese fleet would need a space based marine observation platform to keep track of India's naval movements.

Russians lost to Japan because their admirals were incompetent to let them be blockaded and forced to break out on Japanese terms. They were so dumb they lost several ships to their own mines.
 

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