China penguasa “San Hai”: South China Sea, East China Sea and Yellow Sea. Amerika & her allies avoid provoking Chinese navy. Resikonya besar.
American's Airforce berkekuatan 12.304 aircraft. Lebih banyak dari 4182 unit Chinese aircraft. Tapi China punya 1150 fighter jetz; 2x lebih banyak dari Amerika dengan 457 fighter. Far Superior to Vietnamese yang hanya punya 11 unit Sukhoi SU-17 fighter jet.
Captain James Fanell, former US Pasific Fleet intelligence director, menyatakan Yokosuka-based "United States Seventh Fleet" punya 25 destroyer. China berkekuatan 250 destroyer. Multi-mission design Type 055 Renhai-class featuring cutting-edge electromagnetic rail gun & longer range lebih canggih dari US Ticonderoga class destroyer.
Collin Koh dari S. Rajaratnan school mengatakan China's destroyer Type 052D Luyang-class is "by far the most powerful surface combatant". Destroyer Luyang III-Class Equivalent dengan Arleigh Burke Class AEGIS destroyer.
US Deep Blue Water Navy punya total 427 warships. China berkekuatan 780 warships. Amerika kalah jumlah (56%). Inggris hanya punya 6 destroyer tapi menyatakan akan bela Amerika bila perang pecah di South China Sea.
British punya 11 submarines, 4 diantaranya "Vanguard class". Semuanya nuclear powered. Amerika punya 71 submarine di-deployed ke segala arah. Dua-puluhan dari 76 China's submarine adalah nuclear powered. Bisa beroperasi 40 tahun tanpa harus re-fueling.
China’s robot warship tambah kemampuan tempur. "JARI-unmanned surface vessel" hanya seberat 20-ton dan 15-meter. Too small to see, until it’s too late. Fungsi & capability Killer robot on patrol seperti uninhabited baby brother of a US Arleigh Burke destroyer.
Oleh: Zeng Wei Jian
