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I saw that article before and the Chicoms are building a Rebuilt Midway Class Carrier Design with EMALS onboard a non-nuclear ship (good luck with that and one power plant would have to be dedicated to the EMALS alone) which would alone would make the ship noisy and easily detectable by a Sub.

The J-35 like the J-15 engines are completely underpowered for carrier aviation and like the article said is based n the now obsolete SU-33, plus the engines are huge which means in turn and burn combat they would burn white hot thus making them sidewinder bait!

In reality the Chicoms are at best a regional carrier aviation power with limited power projection reach. They have no carrier based refueling aircraft that we know of(most modern carrier based strike aircraft take off on partially fueled and hit the tanker at about 20k after leaving the deck) and are at least 2 generations behind India and Japan in carrier based aviation experience. 3-4 behind the U.S. U.K. and France. Even Brazilian ran 2 old Flush Deck Carriers more successful than the Chinese have at present.

The Chinese have had to resort to building islands in the South China Sea to project its carrier based aviation beyond 300 miles they heavily depend on land based tankers to refuel it’s carrier based fighters once they are airborne.