“China has a larger Navy than the US by far.”
How many aircraft carriers do they have?
“How many aircraft carriers do they have?”
Who cares? You seem to think they are the entire Navy. They are 30 minute targets at best in a peer level war. It is easy to thump your chest about carriers when beating up the Viet Cong or mooselimbs with rusty AK-47s. Try beating up a peer level adversary that can target your boats with effective ordinance.
The Military Industrial Complex thanks you for your easy brainwashing into letting them build expensive boats with your money.
Their 4th will be ready next year. They seem to be pumping a new one out every year or so. The trend is not our friend.
In the 1943 book, VICTORY THROUGH AIR POWER, by Major Alexander P. De Seversky, it was argued that Aircraft Carriers were a waste of money because new prototypes of long range bombers could bomb Japan from Midway or other American held land.
But the published range and bomb loads of such bombers shrank when fully outfitted and De Seversky was wrong about aircraft carriers being obsolete. We lost lots of carriers, but they were crucial to the war effort. Today, our large carriers are still vulnerable, but they can project combat power. Advanced defensive systems could make them at least as safe as they were back in 1942.