The US Navy wants to build thousands of drones to counter China. Nobody wants to build them. 

America will probably ask China to manufacture all those drones for them 😂😂😂😂

China can produced 30 million cars annually and drones is just a piece of cake. Never ever stir a locust nest unnecessarily.

If you ever watched the Chinese New Year drone show every year since the debut of drone shows at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, how the performance dazzles, you should be able to conclude their Military will certainly be more innovative and impressive.

key word of the day is "CHEAPER but not CHINA" 1 country investing for scientist and engineer while the other invest on racist and lobbyist

China has millions of STEM graduates yearly, and the US has millions of undecided genders yearly.

Capt America will sanction the drones and all will fall into the sea!

This Sputnik moment is different. China is sole superpower in manufacturing. Nobody can out manufacture China. They have the entire supply chain. The reason China is not building hundreds of warships is because they don’t want their ship building relying solely on military spending like US did. Basically US ship building and steel industries went out of business when there were no more government military spending. China wants to build ships for economic growth and dual use. The goal is to build enough warships to defend but avoid over expanding. This way they can build newer warships constantly to replace older warships with newer and better warships.

I'd be so depressed if I was pro American.

How much did you spend to shoot down the weather balloons? 🎈

China peobably has millions of drones and the Chinese drones are way better and cheaper. China's DJI is the world largest producer of commercial drones and supplies 70% of these drones to the world. Countries have been tinkering with these drones to make them into weapons. They're cheap and good and is even better than US military drones.

US thousands of drones vs. China millions of drones. Hmmm 🤔

Haha, If the USA can do it imagine how much China can build. 😅😅😅

The US military the biggest spender by far. Why? They are paying $90,000 for small steel bushings in a small ziploc bag (20 to 30 bushings in all),. Now you can undertand why.

i think it's probably a good thing that the most belligerent are the worst at making weapons.

Dumb vs Dumb UsA is so Not awinner anymore

Its a good thing that the expensive weapons are not the winners in a war. This is the best kind of human progress where the $200 weapon can destroy a $2m weapon.

US keeps talking about going to wars. Why don't they try world peace talk for a change. Ooops, the MIC will be unemployed n their pockets will be empty😂😂

"Cheap" might be a dirty word in the MIC circle. They probably don't care much about casualties in action, or the actual effectiveness of the equipment they built. All they want is money. It's a shameful culture. The US will continue to spend more on defense (in fact, it's offense) budgets, while getting less from the money.

The US navy is not shooting down drones with $2mil missile, that would be very dangerous because there is no such thing as 100% interception rate, they need to fire 2 $2mil missiles per drone.

32 ASAE radars on the Fujian carrier are waiting for those drones😂😂😂

Hollywood needs these ships for movie props. How are they going to make Tom looks cool without those aircraft carriers?

Yemen is building underground drone bases with cheap chinese AI chips

The folly we embark, when we could just as easily cooperate and prosper together..

1 US drone equal the prices 1000 -10.000 Chinese drones 😅

The Chinese can do the same. Their standby stock of all kinds of drones that can convert to military purposes is 200 millions units at any time. 😊

We need to stop war mongering and focus on improving the lives of our citizens.

Giant aircraft carriers don't seem viable in a modern war. They're mostly a jobs program in the US, and probably a nice juicy target for hypersonic drones.

An Australian government official needs to watch this report. What are they thinking investing Billions on US nuclear subs, when drone swarms are the primary front line weapons? Unmanned weapons. Realistically, every weapon is an evil thing. Waisting billions of dollars on redundant tech is a sad joke. Thank you Kevin for raising these vital questions. We need to make friends, not make war

US’s 11 carriers is a number only. Most of these carriers are old and needs lots of services.

Yes US & China are competing & US is spending more. But it cost $billions in USA just to build one whereas it cost few thousands of $ for China to do same. It’s not the same

An Australian government official needs to watch this report. What are they thinking investing Billions on US nuclear subs, when drone swarms are the primary front line weapons? Unmanned weapons. Realistically, every weapon is an evil thing. Waisting billions of dollars on redundant tech is a sad joke. Thank you Kevin for raising these vital questions.

Kevin, your analyses are extremely well done, factual, connected to top news sources. Who ARE you!? I’d like to know more about you, broadcasting prolifically from a different city in China every day.

I always laughed in the game Civ when my aircraft carriers lost to enemy phalanx units. Who would have thought it was an accurate sim.

The only way for US Navy to be cost effective is to sit down and talk to the Chinese and forge a long term contract on building low cost drones. Now it is advised that the US Navy be humble and polite to the Chinese and they won't take kindly to rude officers such as Blinken did. Btw bring along your finest champagne 😂

Ruling the world is not what it used to be.

An out of the box suggestion: Out-source the lot to China - China could build for the US navy cheaper, faster and better. What is there not to like?😁

America just talks alot now days. But nothing to show for. A legit paper tiger.

Thank you Kevin have fun🎉🎉🎉加油👏

China, Russia, Iran and NK are a defacto military alliance, 3 of the 4 have nuclear weapons and all have great military industrial capacity. The reason being is their government control, at an instant they can produce military equipment and ammunition that is cheaper and competent on the battlefield if war escalates. The US military can no longer rely on accuracy and better performing equipment if they are being destroyed by the sheer volume of drones and artillery, ships and missiles. The US MIC cannot compete, they just don't have enough capacity.

Amid a public relations fan-fair, China introduced a new aircraft carrier. I suspect that it was just for show to set the US off on a ship building spree. This is old established technology and the carrier and the fighter jets that it carries are obsolete. I suspect that China is investing their energies in AI piloted drones that be launched in a synchronized swarm in addition to public relations traps for the US to step into. The most expensive and irreplaceable element in a jet fighter is the human pilot. In the end, when the US is gone, Taiwan will rejoin China because China will make it an attractive proposition. A sea-land invasion is "so old world"

thank you Kevin for speaking the truth

Why not? A bag bushing cost USD90k for US army. I'm sure someone can make lots of money making drone for US.

When you have a thousand they are will has a ten thousands, don't forget they're world factory

imagine shooting a weather balloon for millions of dollars

Thank you for your clear and slow English. Of course also for the content of your videos that explain many facts regarding the new rolle of China in the world, usually forgotten or misrepresented by the main stream media.

I think a US admiral once said that there are two types of ships, submarines and targets.

Modern warfare will be fought with drones, missiles, and AI. China has absolute advantage in two of these...

China has a giant industrial capacity, I am sure they can build millions of drones while the US can build thousands of drones. LOL

According to Winston Churchill Generals and Admirals plan for the last war. The US is still planning and building for another WWII.

The G.I. Joe movies showed lots of drone warfare in 2009 and 2013. One would have thought the US military would be extensively using drones in their operations. It sounds like the PLA are bigger fans of the G.I. Joe movies.

lol the rules of engagement are hilarious 😎

News articles often cite the number of aircraft carriers as though that measures the whole strength of a country's military. There'll be a whole article about the US and China tussling over Taiwan, and the military comparison will be just one statistic: the US has 11 aircraft carriers and China has 3.

Kevin. US Navy no one building for them? Why? US can't pay!!!

The US Air Force pays $90,000 for a package of bushings that normally costs well under $100 🤣🤣🤣

US should ask China to build for them.

really appreciate your work mate fantastic many thanks

Never thought about building thousands drone is a topic.

I am an African, I think what the US only best is weapons, weapons and weapons. Nothing good for humanity, not so?

The US can ask its Favorite Allies India to hep producing it by giving them the Blue Print and the Indian will be far too happy to do that so they can make a copy and wouldn't worry about copy rights if the US wants to sue. That's a WIN-WIN situation, one gets the products at cheaper prices and the other can save time on research. Go ahead!

If it is lower cost, then it means defense contractors will get less money. This is not allowed to happen.

20 years ago i bought a 40 MB Winchester for my PC. I didn't see that coming.

As always, another fantastic video. Fast becoming my goto channel for updates from the east 👍

Yes, boeing, general dynamics or lockheed martin manufacture the drones, each for a few million dollars 😁

So US military spending is 10x of Russia's. Given the US's military track record against the Houthis, the Afghans, the Vietnamese, the North Koreans, it would be tough to argue we're getting our money's worth. What I'm really wondering is what the Chinese are getting for their military spending. They don't seem to be a wasteful people.

yep, im starting to see that,with good people like you, i guess we have to hit bottom , for a long time.that might be a good thing

I remember when the U.S. shot down the Chinese "spy" balloon, it used an AIM-9X Sidewinder fired by the F-22 Raptor, the balloon probably cost the Chinese peanuts to make. The Chinese must be laughing.

Haha, China could build them, for a tenth of the cost of the US with infinitely better quality

That is a big mistake to make as you don’t compete on something where China has a distinct comparative advantage over the USA in this area, given that China can out manufacture weaponized drones in larger qualities, more cheaply, more advance technically, integrated with satellite-enabled real-time services, and embedded with anti-disruptive software.

The military race could be a lot closer and narrowing. China is way more productive and being more militarily innovative.

3M for a drone? Gosh. China can build 30 of the same with that.

Americans are always ahead, in talking, yaba yabi yab yab going nowhere

Wait, are you saying that the F-35 is not a Wunderwaffe?!

They already built a dedicated UAV CARRIER , multiple UAV copter motherships... LoL.

Thanks Kevin

The US wants to build back better.

WAR WAR WAR....it's all they care about.. It's madness !

A wise man. THEY need to listen to you.

China and Russia lead world militaries in advanced “next generation” weapon systems such as drones (air/UAV), hypersonic missiles, air defense, electronic warfare, satellite, quantum telecommunications, and much more. It’s going to be nearly statistically impossible for the U.S. and NATO countries to catch up at least for the rest of the century. Nearly all of the new military procurements are formulated on 40 year old Cold War thinking and rewarding each other. Weapon systems are outdated the moment they are deployed. Over-engineered, fragile, and under-performing, expensive. The U.S. is required to field 11 aircraft carriers by Statute as part of our outdated model of military power projection. The law would have to changed to move away from the many large and expensive carrier task forces the politicians and MIC hold so dear. But the U.S. only has sufficient resources to deploy 5 of the 11 carriers at any one time, and even here they are understaffed, under-resourced. One is stationed in Japan by treaty leaving the other 4 to cover the world’s oceans. Each one of these can be sunk with no more than 2 unstoppable Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and now North Korean hypersonic missiles. In a Congressional hearing several weeks ago, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated that just under 30% of the F-35's ARE combat ready. In several previous GAO reports they stated that upwards of 40% were not combat ready so we see a significant deterioration over the last several years. Read the GAO audits and investigations over the years and they explicitly state that ALL of our services are not combat ready, and will not be so for years to come. They are no longer capable of recruiting the necessary personnel/expertise anyway. The $ billions spent on the Navy's LCS program was a failure. Nearly all other weapons systems underperform and when you look at their core tech much is based in the 1980's. The Patriots are incapable of shooting down advanced supersonic and hypersonic missiles for example. Over the last several years the U.S. has shut down multiple hypersonic missile development programs. Only programs like those in China and Russia who focus on integrated, inter-operable strategic military goals have been successful to date. Both China and Russia have “Military Escalatory Dominance” in their respective regions. Taken together as allies, they are the most powerful militaries in recorded military history. ----- BTW. Air defense systems typically fire 2 missiles to target every incoming missile or drone. In Ukraine and in the Red Sea they fire 2 missiles for every incoming. So a single $2,000 Houthis drone is met with 2, $2 million U.S. missiles, and UKR fires 2 Patriot missiles for every 1 Russian drone or missile. $4 million per defense! In the recent Iran “limited” drone and missile response to the Israeli attack on their Consulate, it is estimated that Israel expended approximately $1 billion in missile defense! The Houthis were the first to use a new Naval Attrition Warfare model de-arming U.S. and NATO Navies and forcing them to retire to base to rearm. When that happens the Carrier also needs to leave since it can no longer be defended. The Houthis effectively defeated the U.S. and NATO Navies in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden!

they're tasting their own meds... greedsowgreed

the Navy can always ask DJI to build them.

CH 4, the Chinese equivalent to American reaper drone only Costs 3 million dollars so there’s that.

First millennium is about individualism. Second millennium is about cooperation.

...... AIRCRAFT CARRIERS ARE BIG..BIG ..BIG SITTING DUCKS... THESE DAYS.... GREETINGS FROM ASIA

productivity was is and always will be the key.

Too bad, US always under estimate the enemies or friends. Devastating for US to initiate war. See how Americans died. Now US using proxy war but US also facing suicidal consequences

The large-scale industrialization of drones. The cost of starting a war is very low, and one million US dollars is enough to start a war, which is thanks to China's industrial revolution

Worse case scenario. Tactical nukes would be used. Don’t forget that

It's difficult to imagine the number of small, fast and lethal under sea drones China is capable of utilizing very quickly in the Taiwan Strait or anywhere else in their own back yard. Remember, one does not have to sink an enemy combatant's ship or submarine, only put it out of action. An aircraft carrier is useless unless it can launch and recover aircraft. It's very hard to fight when you're busy pumping and patching a badly listing ship. Drones of all types by the thousands and missiles of all sorts are the mainstay of today's warfare.

Chinese experts are are everywhere.

these era is retrofitting techs from early innovations adaptation

Classic tale of the elephant thinking itself so big, so noble ... that it ends up being eaten alive by 10 million tiny, hardworking, smart and superbly organised FIRE ANTS. Just as you thought it couldn't get any better (from an anti-hegemonic point of view), it does.

@5:22 - cheap and fast - that's the problem

China is already building them.

Its cheaper and faster to buy them from China. Better too. China can make to buyer's spec. USA military budget are corrupted.

Maybe the US should ask China if they want to manufacture these drones for them.....I mean, they'ver asked for dumber shit.

DJI and Unitree

EXACTLLY RIGHT! The country to produce more logistic is the winner in any battle-200 times faster then USA? I was thinking they are 100times faster...

be good

There are 3 fitms just in central texas building small uas systems- i personally have built some of these systems as a precision welder

what r they building if not aircraft carriers? The answer is rather obvious, isn't it? Answer: something ALOT BETTER than carriers. The emergence of hypersonic missiles..... You get it. China's building something you will find out AT THE TIME OF BATTLE. Hint: It's not a carrier. 🎯