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Posted on 02/16/2026 12:46:46 PM PST by Jacquerie
China’s carrier program is accelerating fast, with the Fujian already in sea trials and reporting suggesting a fourth “supercarrier” could follow.
-The Fujian’s flat-deck design and electromagnetic catapult approach resemble the U.S. Ford-class, raising concern about how quickly Beijing is closing the capability gap in launch efficiency and sustained sortie generation.
-Yet carriers matter only as much as their air wings. China’s current deck-aviation weakness—limited fifth-generation carrier fighters—still constrains near-term combat credibility against U.S. Navy F-35Cs and allied regional AirPower.
-The danger is trajectory: mass production, improving catapults, and the J-35 could shift the balance sooner than expected.
China is rapidly expanding its global power-projection capabilities, and perhaps even more concerning to the Pentagon is the very visible extent to which China’s third Fujian aircraft carrier appears to replicate or simply copy elements of the US Navy’s Ford-class carriers.
Building upon the success of its third carrier, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is also underway with a fourth carrier, a first-of-its-kind massive “supercarrier” designed to carry more attack aircraft than the world has ever seen on a single ship.
With the Fujian, China has abandoned a ski-jump configuration and instead moved toward a large, flat-deck design similar to the US Navy’s Ford-class.
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1) A couple of good torpedoes take out one of their 100-plane aircraft carriers.
2) Strike the Three-Gorges Dam.
3) Put Prozac in China's drinking water supplies and lower the libido of the few marriage aged women they have.
I think it’s because carriers aren’t really obsolete and the Chicoms aren’t into pretending that they are.
I left this comment on that site: This is another CCP bought and paid for story. China’s ships won’t last 5 years before some critical infrastructure that was built with substituted parts by the builder to line pockets gives way and sends it to Davy Jone’s locker. I would not set foot on any of their ships, bridges, or high rise buildings, much less get anywhere near one of their exploding EVs. Come to think of it their best bet in battle would build huge trebuchets and hurl their EVs at their enemy.
Carrier Aviation “officially” started November 14, 1910 when Eugene Fly piloted a Curtiss Pusher off the deck of the USS Birmingham. That’s 116 years ago and hundreds of thousands of flights and a long list of missions involving REAL Combat.
China has ZERO aviation combat experience. China having a carrier is like giving an 8 year old boy a Lamborghini.
So China builds a 100 plane aircraft carrier at the same time as we are building a carrier killer hypersonic missile?! Not great timing on their part LOL.
3) Put Prozac in China's drinking water supplies and lower the libido of the few marriage aged women they have.
China's fertility rate is already down to 1.01 births per woman, one of the lowest levels in the world.
China has ZERO aviation combat experience.
If true to form for the stuff i have gotten from China. about 10% of the bolts are stripped or cross threaded and won’t tighten.
China’s super-carriers have one very big problem , Made In China
But not a “good” Lamborghini. Kind of a piece crap Lamborghini.
“But Japan had zero naval aviation combat experience ... “
Several battles. More than the US.
Ya I had a U-Bolt clamp that came with exhaust part and the threads well what threads ,LOL
“If true to form for the stuff i have gotten from China. about 10% of the bolts are stripped or cross threaded and won’t tighten.”
Not my experience. My MT82 takes 800 hours with ease.
Some say it is good to over 1200 hp.
Several battles. More than the US.
Remember that we hugely underestimated the Japanese capacity for any kind of innovation. We thought they were capable only of copying things, ‘monkey see, monkey do’.
That said, I would not like being a crew member or aviator on a Chinese carrier going up against the U.S. Navy.
Oh, stop with the nonsense! Your childish fantasy is so detached from the reality it’s laughable. China has some world class manufacturing capacities and its education system produce good engineers in droves, something the West has lost decades ago.
It’s just that the CCP is too corrupt to manage correctly such a huge endeavor like a supercarrier program. But after all, the US military industrial complex is horribly corrupt too...
“stripped or cross threaded”
Cross threaded is still threaded. /s
“I meant when they began building carriers, “
Their first use of an aircraft carrier in battle was 1932, ten years before the US.
China has ZERO aviation combat experience. China having a carrier is like giving an 8 year old boy a Lamborghini.
They lack a naval culture period. A Chinese blue-water navy is a disaster waiting to happen.
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