[Blueflag]

Exactly.

Unless they can master air ops and fleet defense and manuvering and and and ... they simply aggregate high priority assets for targeting.

That said, however, They can project a threat, credibly, to places like the Spratley's while the politicians and diplomats wail and moan ... and do nothing to stop modern-age Chinese imperialism.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

their pilots are inept enough already, now they want them to try to do carrier landings...


Bwhahahahhaha!!!!!

[Mark Felton]

Buy Boeing stock.

Harpoon SLAM-ER; The bane of Wal-Mart

[nosofar]

That said, however, They can project a threat, credibly, to places like the Spratley's while the politicians and diplomats wail and moan ... and do nothing to stop modern-age Chinese imperialism.

China doesn't have to go to war. It can just bully its neighbors and restrict itself to short 'skirmishes'. The U.S. (or anyone else) would not have a chance to intervene, China would dig in, and the results would be accepted as moot. The same tactic would could easily be repeated.