Posted on 05/25/2020 4:35:38 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
HINA is reportedly set to deploy its two new aircraft carriers off the coast of Taiwan as it warns the US of a “new cold war”.
The huge carriers, the Liaoning and Shandong, are currently engaged in combat readiness training in the tightly controlled Bohai Bay, in the Yellow Sea before sailing to join an invasion war game near Pratas island.
This will be the first time China's new aircraft carriers deploy together for the first time and the move has sparked fears in Taiwan of a possible invasion of its Pratas islands - which could then be used as a staging point for an attack on the mainland.
It comes after Beijing threatened to "reunify" Taiwan in response to Donald Trump saying he could "cut off the whole relationship" with China.
Tensions have been growing between the US and China over the origins of Covid-19.
The US said on Friday it is set to ban trade with 33 Chinese companies.
But China's foreign minister Wang Yi said yesterday this would risk "a new Cold War" as he rejected Washington's "lies" over its handling of coronavirus while saying Beijing was open to an international effort to find its source.
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Those are some nice carriers you got there.
It would be a shame if anything happened to them...
I’d settle for a hot one at this point.
The longer we wait, the stronger they get.
And it is inevitable.
I did not know the Chinese had any operational carriers.
The house rats just blocked the investigation into what China did to cause the virus to cripple the world.
China isn’t interested in using its carriers against the US. Carriers are all about power projection. China’s carriers are to be used in enforcing its precious mineral (particularly rare Earth elements used heavily for electronics production) extraction contracts in places like sub-Saharan Africa, where power changes hands between different petty dictators easily, but China has long term interests. Their carriers are only useful against nations with ineffective air forces and naval forces.
Against us, it would be a race between our subs and our planes carrying anti-ship missiles to see who sank them faster. China’s anti-US naval strategy is entirely focused around interdiction: deploying enough anti-ship capability that it becomes far too costly for us to engage with them militarily over places like Taiwan and Hong Kong.
The first thing that came to my mind was, I wonder what the aftereffect of a Vacuum Bomb dropped on their flight decks would look like? There are numerous ways we could take out either of those two ships but, I’m just curious about the effectiveness of the Vacuum bombs on the flight deck thing.
China started out just buying up old Soviet and Australian aircraft carriers and modernizing them with the best technology they could steal. They’ve had their homegrown program in the works for some time as well, creating their very own designs based on others they copied.
+1
5.56mm
The sooner the “Liaoning” and the “Shandong” are on the
bottom of the South China Sea, the better!
Yes, they do.
However, building a carrier is one thing. Putting it to sea is another thing. Being able to send an entire Carrier Strike Group made up of multiple ships anywhere in the world, conduct combat operations, replenish stores, parts, supplies, food, ordnance, personnel all while deployed at sea for months at a time is something that currently only the United States Navy can do.
This being said, the Chinese are very quickly catching up.
Technically, they do not.
They’re still undergoing trials in the Yellow Sea.
This press report is that they’re going to deploy for the first time.
We’ll see. It should be great intel gathering for our side. Sonar, radar, imagery, elint on ship-to-air, air-to-air, and air-to-ship comms... Etc.
“Okay, Winnie The Pooh, let’s see what you really got here...” {sound of hard drives furiously recording data in background}
And believe me, this is all fair in war and peace. Every time we launch a big new CVN, some nations start working on plans to sink her.
Works for me. We won the Cold War.
Emblem of the People's Liberation Army Navy
What’s a vacuum bomb?
Fighting is another.
I’ll match our carrier experience with theirs any day of the week.
Good luck, Chicoms.
It would be two RFDs and the chicoms would be wondering “WHOHOPPEN?!?”
Space force, Baby - YEAH!
The friend of my enemy is my enemy!
Anyone know how many carriers we have in the pacific?
We have quite a few things that would surprise the chi-coms, and not all in the ocean. They keep up the sabre rattling they will find far more than the US Navy to be dealing with. The Japanese, for example, and S. Korea. They might want to look up in space, too.
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