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Forbes Says China’s Submarine Fleet Will Double United States’ in a Decade
We ran Forbes’ statement by Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a Washington-based think tank that examines national security and defense spending issues. Clark estimated that between 2025 and 2030, China will have 80 to 100 submarines. With the U.S. having more than 50 submarines at that time, Forbes’ numbers have validity, Clark said. But we need to consider more than numbers when comparing the two nations’ submarine fleets, Clark added. He noted all U.S. subs are nuclear-powered, while China’s fleet, in a decade, still will contain many diesel-powered vessels. "It is notable, however, that all of the U.S. submarines are highly capable of long endurance, whereas about half of China’s submarine fleet will be non-nuclear submarines best suited for regional operations close to home," Clark wrote in an email.
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The Dangers Presented By China’s Hypersonic Weapons Build-Up
Indeed, when it comes to negation of important missile defense investments, the above mirrors an interview I conducted back in 2014 with experts from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). When I asked them about the utility of US missiles defenses against hypersonic weapons they explained: “Defensive missiles have very limited time and a finite amount of energy available to position themselves to intercept an incoming offensive missile.
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Truman’s Deployment Extended in Move to Crush ISIS
Bryan Clark, an analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments said the strain on the fleet is inevitable until Enterprise’s replacement, the first-in-class carrier Gerald R. Ford, comes online.“You either have to accept presence gaps or long deployments,” he said “And it’s going to be that way until the Ford enters the fleet.”
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Australia’s New $50 Billion French Submarines Could Be Obsolete
In the US, a much-discussed report by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, written by former Pentagon submarine expert Bryan Clark, has raised serious questions about the ability of submarines to retain their underwater stealth in the face of "technological advancements, many of them driven by rapid increases in computer processing power".
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Lawmakers Seek Assessment of Contractors’ Ability to Build Two Virginia Subs a Year
Bryan Clark, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said that falling below the requirement of 48 attack submarines, put in place in 2010, could mean "some of the intelligence gathering or crisis response type missions don't get done. It could result in gaps in intelligence."
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Experts Warn Weapons Gap Is Shrinking Between US, Russia and China
"Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. military has never really had to fight an enemy that had its own arsenal of precision-guided weapons," said Mark Gunzinger, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.