China launches aircraft carrier
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Okay then?
So do you have much to say on the matter or are you just sharing this news?
Personally I'm surprised they didn't already have a few Carriers, although not having any planes able to operate on her, this seems a little silly. But then again, that's coming from someone in a nation with no Carriers in operation and none till at least the end of the decade.
It's not like one Chinese Carrier can take on the might of the US Navy though.
So do you have much to say on the matter or are you just sharing this news?
Personally I'm surprised they didn't already have a few Carriers, although not having any planes able to operate on her, this seems a little silly. But then again, that's coming from someone in a nation with no Carriers in operation and none till at least the end of the decade.
It's not like one Chinese Carrier can take on the might of the US Navy though.
Wait i thought you brits have aircraft carriers. The Invincible class?
OMG the Royal Navy has no Aircraft carriers in operation. You guys pioneered the aircraft carrier. The HMS Argus was the world first aircraft carrier.
But anyway, the Chinese bought an old soviet carrier from the Ukrainians. They repaired it extensively and they studied it's design. They intend to use it as a training ship for future People's liberation army navy (PLAN) 's naval aircrew and aircraft carrier operations personnel. They will certainly build more carriers in the future.
I was just sharing the news.
But anyway, the Chinese bought an old soviet carrier from the Ukrainians. They repaired it extensively and they studied it's design. They intend to use it as a training ship for future People's liberation army navy (PLAN) 's naval aircrew and aircraft carrier operations personnel. They will certainly build more carriers in the future.
I was just sharing the news.
In fairness we are building two new carriers...whether we need them or not is another matter, and it may be that we mothball/sell one of them as soon as they're complete cos they were commisioned in much healthier times!
China clearly intend to build more, but looking objectively at it, it is surprising they don't have one already. And they'd still have to go some way to match the US!
China clearly intend to build more, but looking objectively at it, it is surprising they don't have one already. And they'd still have to go some way to match the US!
I reckon by the time the second carrier is completed it will be commissioned. The government's own Audit office said it was deeply concerned that there will soon be no carrier capacity in the fleet, even although Lusty is technically still in commission. The political fallout from mothballing a humungously expensive craft would be very big and nasty, which is why the current government is still having these ships built. All that guff about it being more expensive to cancel them was just that: guff.
Edit: who can forget when Lusty went to London tahn?
Edit: who can forget when Lusty went to London tahn?
As the report says the Chinese will use it for training and study purposes which is all they need.
The US needed many decades to perfect their design and they started way back in WW2 times to build them. It's not like taking a long ship and slapping a flight deck on top of it.. there's far more to building an aircraft carrier and the Chinese are learning.
I guess it'll be another 10-20 years before the first real carrier is built which is enough time to train the crew and pilots.
I remember hearing about the original purchase years ago. But then again, ex-Soviet, rusting in the Ukraine for so long it probably had to be stripped to the frame and rebuilt.
Considering it has no operational aircraft, is going to be under going minor missions for the foreseeable future and China already has quite the surface fleet....so what? just a shiny, bigger addition to it.
Considering it has no operational aircraft, is going to be under going minor missions for the foreseeable future and China already has quite the surface fleet....so what? just a shiny, bigger addition to it.
Don't start threads with only links and no commentary. If you want to start a thread, have something constructive to say about it upfront instead of relying on everyone else to develop the discussion for you. You've done this a bunch of times in TNZ, and it's not going to happen here too.
I was just thinking that. While at the present time, there doesn't seem to be any call to worry... but later when China has 5 of these warships on the seas, a couple perilously close to Korea during a little extra unrest between North and South well... different story. China will build more. They have an agenda that isn't talked about much, because it seems to far away right now, but they want to be a dominant world power (not just economically speaking).
pre- WW1 actually
Actually, that's exactly how the first carriers were built.
I was surprised Russia apparently only has a single Carrier in operation anymore, when I looked up that "new" Chinese Carrier on wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_of_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union
Then there is the cost of the F-35 fighters for the new British Carriers.
I heard their focusing on their Army more then its Navy, but can you blame them who they have as neighbors in the east? I heard all three Typhoon class submarines are being put back into service with some modifications.
