Submersible aircraft carriers.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170287,00.html
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Obama: "We Welcome China's Rise"
CBS News ^ | January 19, 2011 | Stephanie Condon
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Sept 11, 2014
China and Russia to build major seaport: report
China and Russia will build one of the largest ports in north-east Asia on Russia’s Sea of Japan coast, reports say, in a further sign of the powerhouses’ growing alliance.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-11/china-and-russia-to-build-major-seaport-report/5738036
Recommending a defensive posture rather than an offensive one. A sign of the times, I guess.
Submarines are just about worthless against large numbers of landing craft, which is what you need to defeat if you are trying to stop an invasion of Taiwan. Obviously, they are of no value in protecting Taiwanese airspace.
Japan is a large aircraft carrier, so CVNs aren’t required to protect it.
SSNs are quite effective if you want to put Chinese warships on the bottom, presuming the PLAN comes out to play, and they are also quite effective at neutralizing the Chinese submarine threat.
CVNs would be very handy in the Spratly’s, but then so would SSNs.
“More subs, fewer calories to combat Chinese.”
Need more coffee and my glases this morning.
When are the Japs going to build an indigenous CVN?