Looks like the Indians and Chinese purchased some lemons of an aircraft carrier. Those Russians are great used cars salesmen.
1 posted on
02/12/2014 5:58:20 AM PST by
C19fan
To: C19fan
In Soviet Russia.. cars sell YOU!
2 posted on
02/12/2014 6:01:06 AM PST by
ConservativeMan55
(In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
To: C19fan
The good news is, the scrapping ‘yard’ (I use the term loosely) is just around the cornerl
3 posted on
02/12/2014 6:01:17 AM PST by
tgusa
(gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
To: C19fan
Russians are using asbestos to insulate boilers in their carriers. India insisted on using alternative unproven insulation and it has failed. Chinese carrier was bought without powerplant at all.
To: C19fan
As a former 600 pound plant steam engineer, it’s not easy. Can’t imagine Russian plants....
5 posted on
02/12/2014 6:05:53 AM PST by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: C19fan
Shocking.....the Soviets didn’t steal our boiler making technology???
7 posted on
02/12/2014 6:07:42 AM PST by
ontap
To: C19fan
It does not matter how the Chinese carrier is powered. If they hauled one out, being towed by 200 year old junks, this administration would head to China waving a white flag before the NY Times could report on his latest foreign policy success.
8 posted on
02/12/2014 6:10:10 AM PST by
Tupelo
(I am feeling more like Philip Nolan every day)
To: C19fan
Trade trends are in favor of both of those countries.
America’s trade meanwhile, is still collapsing.
Bring back American jobs, and American manufacturing.
To: C19fan
China purchased Varyag in 1998 and, after 13 years of rework, commissioned her as Liaoning—Beijing’s first full-deck aviation ship and a potential rival of the U.S. Navy’s 11 aircraft carriers,Wishful thinking on somebody's part. It might be big and gray and get underway, but, seriously, a rival to a US carrier ?
12 posted on
02/12/2014 6:18:51 AM PST by
csvset
To: C19fan
The warranty just expired.
13 posted on
02/12/2014 6:19:06 AM PST by
McGruff
(Every night has it's dawn.)
To: C19fan
One glaring error in the story. U.S. carriers spend 8 months of every three years
deployed. The spend a lot more than that at sea.
If memory serves the Varyag was pretty much a hulk when delivered to China. She didn't have a powerplant. Unless the Chinese put in a Russian built boilers and turbines there is no guarantee that they would face the same problems.
To: C19fan
China is building a war machine that could fail when it goes to war.
19 posted on
02/12/2014 7:02:36 AM PST by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: C19fan
Happens everywhere.
I know a guy who was aboard when this happened.
http://articles.dailypress.com/1994-03-12/news/9403120044_1_carrier-crew-boiler-crewmen
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