[My2Cents]

That's the bad news. The good news is, the carriers are based on the French design.

[martin_fierro]

Buncha junk.

[af_vet_rr]

Would not surprise me, they are hot to trot in space, stands to reason they aren't going to ignore the sea.

[NorseWood]

Heads up, Jeff Head!

[dixierat]

Nice of them to build the first significant targets our navy has had since WWII.....

[longtermmemmory]

The Chinese bought the USSR's last and only jet aircraft carrier. It stands to reason they would build more.

[AngryJawa]

The local fish population will be very happy to hear that they have a couple of new artificial reefs coming their way.

[Enterprise]

The Three A/C names:

1. Mai Ding Dong

2. One Hung Low

3. Yu Fat Too

[Modernman]

Chicom Aircraft Carrier Ping.

Do you think they'll be able to make this work? Carrier aviation is tougher than it looks.

[Captain Rhino]

Wow, a carrier without assigned air assets.

So I guess any carrier-capable fighter or attack jet stick in the PLAN will be expected to just show up full qualified to trap and launch from any of the three carriers. Mix and match. With and without ordnance, day, night, NVG, in all weather conditions (above flight minimums). And they will gain and maintain their at-sea flight quals by ???

This is an extremely dangerous business even with dedicated carrier air groups. Unfortunately, the Chinese may be in for some unpleasant surprises. Wonder how many pilots they will kill, aircraft they will destroy and how much damage they will do to the ships before they realize buying a dedicated air group is actually cheaper. (Nice power protection bonus when they do that too.)

But who knows. With their reliance on the extensive carrier operation experience of the Russians and their own potent submarine operational experience, they could be a serious menace in the western Pacific region. ;-)

[Fierce Allegiance]

This may be what is driving steel prices sky high lately. China is buying up ALL of the us scrap steel available.

[DM1]

These guys have been working on a navy for a long time
they want to "negate" our naval superiority so that they can grab Taiwan back

[MediaMole]

48,000 tons is pretty small in today's world. They are between the old WWII Essex Class and the immediate post-WWII Midway Class carriers.

They certainly aren't in any way equivalent to the Enterprise or Nimitz class ships we have.

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

Time for Taiwan to speed up the production of those submarines! Perhaps we could loan them a couple, fortraining purposes only , of course! (cough, cough)

[reagan_fanatic]

Oh goody goody! Target practice for the U.S Navy!

[Teacher317]

It's always dangerous to underestimate an opponent. Let's wait until the carriers are underway before photo-shopping Titanic life preservers on 'em.

[LibWhacker]

Thank you, Bill Clinton, you traitorous c********r! I guess the democrats plan to complete the program of high-tech transfers to China he started as soon as they win the White House again.

Well, we're nuts if we allow China and the democrats to build up the Chinese military until it becomes a modern high-tech nuclear power that can pose an extreme threat to America. We should take them out right now. The Chinese we can deal with later.

[Joe 6-pack]

Commie Kerry said he knows, "something about aircraft carriers for real..."

Maybe this is what he was talking about?

[Sergio]

Gotta start a pool. How many of their own aircraft, crashing during landing attempts, will it take to sink said carrier?

[Leatherneck_MT]

In other news

The NOW gang has decided to field a Professional Football Team. Patricia Ireland was heard to comment "We will be challenging the Patriots for the superbowl next year."

The similarities are staggering