China Seems ‘Locked and Loaded’ to Sink Navy Aircraft Carriers

National Security Journal ^ | 8/31/2025 | Harry Kazianis

[null and void]

Yup. When the Army was having trouble knocking out German bunkers, the Marines offered pilots and aircraft well skilled in successfully taking out Japanese bunkers.

The Army said The army can take care of itself and it doesn’t need the Marine Corps to blow up bunkers.

A whole lot of army soldiers unnecessarily died as a result.

But Army brass kept its pride intact...

[Myrddin]

The moment that occurs, the Three Gorges Dam will be breached for the benefit of the CCP

[Vaduz]

Only one cure to end China’s war machine make it 1959 again.

Poor and lots of it

[Nervous Tick]

MIC == Military-Industrial Complex?

That they may be... but they seem to be Yet Another Ad-Heavy Sensationalist Clickbait Website, or YAAHSCW as we like to call them. Rolls off the tongue smoothly, dontcha know? 🤣

[Myrddin]

Then they take out Hoover Dam.

Hoover Dam is nearing dead pool far lack of incoming water. It will not cause severe floods, but the loss of power generation and water will hammer Las Vegas. TGD will inundate most of the high value real estate in China. The damage done will be orders of magnitude more than Hoover dam on US soil.

[Nervous Tick]

Your simplistic view of President Trump, his policies, and his motives is as laughable as it is arrogant.

[central_va]

My point is blowing up those dams is an unnecessary strategic move. If the AF wanted to help the would take out missile launch platforms.

[xone]

Something tells me our Aircraft Carriers are toast.

Because you are an ignorant moron.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I believe the NYT before I believe the neocon NSJ.

[In_Iowa_not_from]

I am pro American worker. OTH you are a consuming insect.

Ok, I'm an insect. But what are the tariffs doing at your workplace? And if you don't work, what effect are they having at the factories where your kids or relatives work?

[Forward the Light Brigade]

China has the largest navy in the world, The USA the second largest, Russia has the Third Largest and India the forth largest. Japan is growing. But we are racking up many enemies is BRICKS in a WW we might be outnumbered and over stretched. Time to re-think our naval strategies.

[In_Iowa_not_from]

Your simplistic view of President Trump, his policies, and his motives is as laughable as it is arrogant.

I'm arrogant because I question the judgment of a politician? I don't worship politicians, whether Democrat or Republican.

[central_va]

Your argument is specious. Cutting crime in DC doesn’t affect me directly so i do not get to opine? You’re an idiot.

[Drew68]

Something tells me our Aircraft Carriers are toast.

Carriers, the backbone of our Navy and the symbol of force projection are rapidly becoming obsolete.

It takes $10 billion and a decade to build one and because of this, they're just too expensive to risk losing one.

And when you can't risk losing an asset, this governs how you deploy these assets.

This being said, they're not going away anytime soon. We have too much invested in them.

[philman_36]

This article and others like it about obsolete aircraft carriers tells me "somebody" is actually afraid of our carriers and their abilities and they want their capabilities muted.
What better way to win a war than by convincing your opponent to cast down his sword and spear before the war even starts!
Claiming their use is antiquated and that they are due for decommissioning helps our opponents...both foreign and, sadly, domestic.

[whitney69]

“But if we launch nukes China will launch as well.”

That just means twice as many in the air. And if you check the different scenarios of firing sequences of all the capable countries that would get into it, there may or may not be someone to turn out the lights.

I’m only covering what their situation would be. The rest of the world would look about the same.

wy69

[In_Iowa_not_from]

Trump cutting crime in DC is a good thing. I hope he does the same thing in all of the democrat urban hellholes.

The subject is tariffs. So you’re saying that tariffs aren’t affecting you directly and it appears you don’t know how they are affecting your relatives or family. Yet you claim they are helping American workers.

How do you know they are helping American workers? I may be an idiot, but I’m not the one taking something at face value (tariffs help American workers) because I read it on the internet.

[central_va]

Your argument is specious. Tariffs promote domestics industry. That is fact. In doing so more workers are needed. Wages are going up. If tariffs are doing that it would makes sense.

[flamberge]

[The American forces]...could launch their own missiles at the area where the Chinese missiles originate. What is China’s defense then?

None at all. This is a move that only works once.

But it only needs to work once. We no longer seem to be a country that will tolerate losing an aircraft carrier and 5,000 sailors in a single failed strike. The Chinese could bet on a political reaction from American citizens who would demand a ceasefire and withdrawal of forces.

The Chinese might lose that bet. They also might fail at destroying a carrier task group. It would be expensive to find out either way it turned out.

[In_Iowa_not_from]

Your argument is specious. Tariffs promote domestics industry. That is fact. In doing so more workers are needed. Wages are going up. If tariffs are doing that it would makes sense.

Sudan - 21.6%
Iran - 20.1%
India - 18.3%
Zimbabwe - 17.9%
Bangladesh - 14.1%
Venezuela - 13.8%
S. Korea - 13.6%


These are a few examples of tariffs imposed on imports from other countries. As far as 1st world countries go, S. Korea has the highest.

If what you claimed about tariffs was true, Iran should have a booming economy with high wages. The only thing going boom in Iran is their nuclear weapons program.

The average effective U.S. tariff rate on imported goods was 18.6% as of August 2025, the highest level since 1933. Make Depression Great Again!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_rate