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marble falls

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4. The US fleet is so much larger than the Chinese fleet in tonnage, its a joke.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Feb 15, 2019, 08:43 AM

Feb 2019

Its such a joke: that not only is China at #3 and a quarter the size of the US, the US is larger than the next five largest Naval powers put together.

https://www.therichest.com/rich-list/rich-countries/lets-sea-the-10-biggest-navies-in-the-world/

The USN by itself the 3rd largest air force. The USN has three or four the number of aircraft carriers as the rest of the world put together. If not more.

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