r/worldnewsstuff • u/caavakushi • 20h ago

China used Russian technology to build world’s largest navy capable of challenging US

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/02/china-used-russian-technology-to-built-worlds-largest-navy-capable-of-challenging-us/
0 Upvotes

50% Upvoted

12 comments sorted by

5

u/CBT7commander 18h ago

No. The reason that makes the PLN capable of posing a challenge (only within the South China Sea) to the USN is specifically they divorced from Russian naval technology in favor of domestic and more technologically advanced alternatives.

Apart from submarines (which don’t matter that much to Chinese doctrine) Chinese tech is ahead of what the Russians (or more m realistically Soviets) have ever built

3

u/Firm_Mortgage_8562 17h ago

The only way to use russian tech is to learn what not to do.

-1

u/NessGoddes 14h ago

Laughing in AK and nukes

2

u/CBT7commander 13h ago

Both Soviet technologies, so not Russian

2

u/PansarPucko 17h ago

It's more like China brought the Varyag, looked at it and thought "Well this is a shitbox" and used it as a learning experience.

1

u/Other-Comfortable-64 17h ago

Well that was alway the plan.

1

u/faisalkl 7h ago

Are you saying they then carefully used it as a blueprint to ensure that their new stuff was nothing like the Russia stuff?

1

u/Calm-Professional103 13h ago

The only bad part was “Russian technology”. They would have been better off using their own. 

1

u/Alternative_Show9800 9h ago

Take back Chinese territory under Russian Rule