I thought aircraft carriers were siting ducks and not part of the latest military naval technology.
What China invested in when we were wasting trillions in the Mideast for 20 years.
but do their planes and pilots work
The defender has to spend money on weapons all the time, because they dont know when they will be attacked.
The aggressor has the advantage of being able to defer spending money until just before they are ready to make their move.
My guess is China is looking at making some moves in the next 10 years.
Every wonder where all our clunkers went Obama paid us for and then GAVE to China?
China’s challenge will be keeping them afloat when their gender and age crises rear their ugly heads.
China is busily building a fleet of the largest container ships the world has ever seen. -— But like the Trojan Horse of ancient Greek civilization, the fleet could potentially be used by China in a spectacular, lightening invasion of Taiwan. Could the hollow hulls and empty decks of Chinese container ships carry infantry and mechanized divisions for a devastating attack on Taiwan, securing the island before the U.S. could respond?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/04/chinas_container_ship_fleet_an.html
Amazing what you can do with Gorilla Glue and duct tape... They learned, apparently, from the Russians...
The Chinese are getting a bigger bang for their buck destroying America by sending in container ships loaded with fentanyl offloaded into Mexico for distribution north by the cartels.
I wonder why we don’t build our carriers at breakneck speed?///
the hull appears to measure forty meters in width by forty-eight meters in length.
Doesn’t sound right to me but what do I know.
Speaking of those container ships, I wouldn’t wonder
if the Chinese haven’t containerized some of their missiles.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Iranians haven’t done the
same thing.
Sounds like a tub...
The National Interest is a pro-China publication. The truth is Chinese aircraft carriers suck like most of their military equipment. What they claim about the effectiveness of their platforms and weapon systems have never matched their true capabilities. Chinese stealth technology doesn’t work nearly as well as the US’s does; stealth, directed energy weapons and target data fusion are the technologies that are going to rule the next big war the world sees, and the US is way ahead in those technologies.
“...forty meters in width by forty-eight meters in length...”
Sounds like a floating card table.
National Interest is infested by hysterics and self flagellators. they also republish months old (sometimes even years old) crap as though it was new.
Can some navy type tell us how many support ships will China need to go with support 6 aircraft carriers?
I understand it is something like having all the buildings on an air force base follow the runway float around the world.
And the have six new runways.
But China does not have the years, decades of flight deck experience.
Does anyone remember a bunch of years ago someone wrote a book about WW 3 with Asian countries. It was free for Freepers.
As I remember what I read, it is sounding like much of it is comming true.
Do you know how many aircraft carriers the US launched 1942-1944?
I'm sure we could do it again - if China would sell us the steel.
I'm sure they would, right? They depend on the US trade for survival of the regime, right?
RIGHT?
In this day and age I wonder what good an aircraft carrier is in a war between the big guys.
Satellites can spot them quick. And today’s weapons can take them out real quick.