[rottndog]

China can pick it up cheap on Craig’s List...they are already driving around another fixer-upper they got from the Russkies...

[clearcarbon]

"China can pick it up cheap on Craig’s List...they are already driving around another fixer-upper they got from the Russkies...

China could get into a carrier-flipping business. I sure wouldn't buy one from them.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

"China can pick it up cheap on Craig’s List."

The two best days in a boat owners life:

The day they buy it and the day they sell it.

[DUMBGRUNT]

The unfinished sister ship to this one, Ukraine sold to china.
Not exactly from the Riskies...

Such a deal!
Buy, sell trade!

“It was originally commissioned in the Soviet Navy, and was intended to be the lead ship of the two-ship Kuznetsov class. However, its sister ship Varyag was still incomplete when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.[8] The second hull was eventually sold by Ukraine to the People’s Republic of China, completed in Dalian and commissioned as Liaoning.[9]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_aircraft_carrier_Admiral_Kuznetsov

[PIF]

The are building another ski jump carrier (nuclear power) as well as a flat topped (nuclear power) carrier - a CVN Ford (but smaller) equivalent with EMALS (Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System).

They are a fast growing blue water navy which even the old Soviet navy would be in awe of. They need only the skill to manufacture jet turbine blades and then they are militarily off to the races