Posted on 11/14/2025 12:31:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Fujian and its strike group represent a strategic game changer that will bring Beijing closer to its goal of eroding U.S. maritime primacy in its backyard.
China’s efforts to blunt American maritime power in the Pacific, a region the United States has long considered its domain, received a major boost this month with the official launch of its third — and most advanced by far — aircraft carrier, the Fujian.
The 80,000-ton supercarrier, which can accommodate about 60 aircraft and will be accompanied by as many as 10 warships, will dramatically narrow the naval capability gap between the U.S. and China, according to American, Japanese, Taiwanese and Chinese analysts. It will also enable Beijing to further intimidate rivals in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait.
“We’re really entering a new era here,” said Lyle Goldstein, an associate professor at the Naval War College.
China was already a significant adversary: It has the world’s largest navy by number of ships, biggest arsenal of ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles, and largest active military service, with a standing army of 2 million soldiers.
But China has lagged the United States in aircraft carrier technology.
Now, the launch of the Fujian will bring Beijing closer to its goal of eroding U.S. maritime primacy in its backyard, not least because the warship uses electromagnetic catapults to launch planes, making China the only the country, after United States, to have developed and built this technology.
“It’s not a small jump,” Goldstein said of the Fujian’s catapults. “It’s literally doubling or tripling — maybe even quadrupling — the combat lethality.”
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Ever hear of submarines?
Or cruise missile?
Ha... Ha... Ha... Ha... Snort... Snort... more like a dinghy vs a speedboat. But their crap sinks at the sight of one of our destroyers.
But = Bet
Particle beam space lasers, super-duper carriers, ultra hi-temperature hypersonic jet engines, oh my!
It has state of the art screen doors.
Chinese carrier is diesel powered, lacks EMALS/CATOBAR, can only hold half the aircraft that a US carrier can. We don’t even know if the Chinese carrier is fully operation or combat ready.
To me nuclear power is a detriment and makes crew training and damage control 10 times harder.
If we look to ancient history, many times God used an evil nation to humble a country who had turned away from Him.
Don’t be surprised if in the near future, America will suffer a serious military defeat from a lesser nation.
Galatians 6:7
Don’t be deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap.
HAA HAA HAA HEE HEE HAA HAA…SNORT…HAA HAA! Thats about the most absurd claim I have heard in a years. Don’t worry, it will never see battle because it will sink on its own before given the opportunity.
The boat will have to be better built than their latest bridges.
No, it won’t. Not greatly narrow, nope.
Having a carrier is one thing, having a history of carrier operations is another. Like General Patton (George C. Scott) said in the movie Patton while he was reviewing smartly marching soldiers “They look good, but can they fight?”
Huh? America has been getting its ass kicked since WW2, by lesser nations. Vietnam, Afghanistan are a couple of examples of the traitors within helping the enemy.
Wait so theg made a Forrestal class aircraft carrier of their own?
and then there’s the issue about china having more ships than the USA ... i remember when there were claims like that about the soviets ... but turns out the soviets built ‘em and then never fixed anything that broke ... i wonder if the same thing is true of china? ... when i was there in the early 1980’s i noticed that NOTHING was ever fixed in their buildings nor were they ever cleaned ...
That about sums it up.
What about the screening and support ships for the carrier?
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