Future Cruise / Anti-Ship Weapon (FC/ASW)

[Bruno Anthony]

Lack of targets.
The requirement died in the nineties with the rusting away of the Soviet Navy and only reared its head again in the last decade because... PLAN.

PLAN has been building up a lot earlier than just the last 10 yrs. Way to plan ahead of the threat.

 

[WatcherZero]

They've only been building blue water ships for the last decade, up until the 2010's it was mainly a brown water navy with lots of small short range craft. Even today they have a major shortage of logistic ships that would enable them to maintain a taskforce at sea for an extended period while their planning to retire their sizeable number of LST's in favour of merchant-marine car ferries.