Some notes from an old sailor:
1. Wake me up when they can put up a CAP 7x24x365
2. Conventionally powered means VULNERABLE as they burn a sh!t pot full of oil to move 80,000 tons. Unrep is unmanageable during war time for a ship of this size, as is port call.
3. Their carrier aircraft as total crap. There’s really no other way to describe them. Russians make better airplanes.
4. The Type 055 DDGs which are to protect them are no better. Everything looks good on paper and on film, but very little of it actually works as advertised.
5. On its maiden cruise it will be overflown by no less than TWO F-35s. And will be hot pinged by no less than two Virginia SSNs. Probably simultaneously.
Not really.