Posted on 03/16/2021 6:25:35 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
hina’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is making major strides toward its ambitious aircraft carrier procurement goals.
Two military insider sources told the South China Morning Post that China’s defense industry is ramping up its efforts to build a fourth aircraft carrier. “Shipbuilders and ship propulsion engineers are keen on making a significant breakthrough with the construction of the fourth carrier,” said one of the sources. “It will be a technological leap for the shipbuilding industry . . . but construction may take longer than for its sister ship due to the different propulsion systems,” the source noted.
A second source added that China’s Central Military Commission is reviewing a proposal from the China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) to employ nuclear propulsion technology for the project.
The CSSC said several years ago that a nuclear-powered aircraft would be a major milestone toward its goal to “realise its strategic transformation and combat-readiness capability in deep waters and open oceans by 2025.” In more concrete terms, nuclear-powered propulsion would better support certain high-energy weapon types like lasers and railguns and potentially leave more room for additional aircraft fuel or weapons. Nuclear propulsion offers other logistical benefits, making ships less dependent on fuel supply lines; this can potentially improve response times and enhance the carrier’s operational flexibility.
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Two Words: Cruise missiles.
Good looking carrier.
Wonder who thought up that design?
Hunter Biden is back to selling ? LOL
He never stopped.
Ping!
US: making maternity ready flight suits
China: building a nuclear powered aircraft carrier
Gee, who is winning?
Not a problem, we spend 5 times as much as China on our military. Therefore China cannot harm us. We’re safe. Get back to me when they spend more than us, then I’ll worry. For now, I’ll simply keep ignoring them...because I know we’re safe. Yep, we’re safe. Definitely.
...and sunk. Maybe a 1 in 10 billion kinetic meteor strike. Bet there is Confucious saying that might be appropriate.
On a related note:
New M1 Abrams Tanks To Come Equipped With Changing Tables
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-m1-abrams-tanks-to-come-equipped-with-changing-tables
On a serious non-satirical note, I hope the Army is developing maternity tank crew jumpsuits to follow up on the Air Force’s development of maternity flight suits . . .
China: Spending as much revenue as the COVID CCP wants to spend to raise their military capacity.
They’re even going to man it with men, not women and trans freaks.
Azipod propulsion is an interesting option.
The USA I fear makes this mistake and it looks like the Chinese may be doing the same, they are fighting the “last war”.
Kind of like how well WWI battleships did in WWII. They failed.
Certainly as a power projection against a Non-peer enemy, the Carrier is WOW!
Against a near-peer opponent, it is a very expensive target, that will be of limited use like the Tirpitz and the Bismark, Germany was afraid to use them.
But if the Chinese want such a machine, let them go for it.
But realistically a AIP submarine from Sweden will probably sink it, or a tactical Nuke on a hyper sonic munition, Technology is happening fast.
I predicted a major nuclear event onboard with in 2 years. The Chicoms are good stealing our stuff much like Russian Carrier Aircraft Designs. This design may look like a Ford Class, but it’s clearly the Nimitz Class Design (which is a old design)building a Carrier is easy, but running a nuclear powered carrier is totally complex having served on on myself in the past. Even a simple trash can fire at sea can lead to a major incident!
“Gee, who is winning?”
Probably the guy who has already built 20 of them.
Or, alternatively, the guy who can defeat all the world’s navies combined.
The Chernobyl of the sea.
China is outbuilding us militarily while our DOD works on sex change operations and chasing phantom Qtards in DC.
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