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2009-08-14 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by 3dc 2009-08-14 00:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Build a carrier? Sure. Learn to fly from and land on one? Ok. Use as teh U.S. does? Not likely.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2009-08-14 09:18|| 2009-08-14 09:18|| Front Page Top

#2 ...The problem with ski jumps is although they work quite nicely in getting birds airborne without a catapult, it cuts down on deck space. That's why these huge ~~Soviet~~ Russian CVs only carry about a third of the air wing that US CVs do. And you can't launch an AEW bird (like our E2) from a ski jump - that's CTOL all the way. And since modern CVs are just about unsurvivable and unusable without some kind of AEW, the Chinese and ~~Soviet~~ Russian ships aren't really that helpful.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-08-14 09:25|| 2009-08-14 09:25|| Front Page Top

#3 You knew this was coming.

Posted by Mike 2009-08-14 11:02|| 2009-08-14 11:02|| Front Page Top

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