I'll almost feel sorry for them when a 688 sinks that sucker with a full spread of Mark V torpedoes. If it's anything like the Charles DeGaulle, it'll be fun to keep around for awhile, though.
Do you mean that supper dooper top of the line, French built Armageddon delivery ship, who got the shakes when all on board washmachines were operating full tilt, and the launch deck for the jets was to short?
That brings back fond memories...
On more series note, just because China is arming it self, do we suppose to shake our selves in our collective cowboy boots? Don't think so!
The Chinese military is a rag tag combo made of Russian left overs, European wanna be military hard ware, and every one in between.
It will take one hell of an effort to coordinate all the said entities to make thinks happened!
Not been a military person me thinks that, the Chinamen won't have a REAL naval military might to challenge US of A for approx 20 Years minimum. USSR comes to mind.