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2010-12-17 China-Japan-Koreas

Documents Confirm China's Aircraft Carrier Plans

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Posted by Steve White 2010-12-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 "Target" painted big across the flight deck, and they know it.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-12-17 11:57|| 2010-12-17 11:57|| Front Page Top

#2 If it's not built in Newport News, it aint shit.

Posted by Alistaire Thitch9108 2010-12-17 13:29|| 2010-12-17 13:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Why would China need a carrier? They have historically had no interests in power projection. (1) Pride, the reason a lot of undeveloped nations do unexplainable things (2) Need to defend sea lanes if the US pulls back or confront the US at sea and decided a big target was the best way to do so (3) Keep builders working or hide graft.

I suspect a combo of one and three.

Posted by Rjschwarz 2010-12-17 14:22|| 2010-12-17 14:22|| Front Page Top

#4 There has not been a carrier battle since WWII, and the US Navy won those. The only navy that has around the clock experience running carriers in all weather and sea conditions for 70+ years is the US Navy. The second largest carrier fleet in the world is property of the US Marine Corps. None of this bodes well for the Chinese experiment - especially since they will only have 1 carrier for many years. Ask the French how well that works out.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-12-17 21:21|| 2010-12-17 21:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Also, a US carrier almost never travels alone, especially in a hostile environment. It takes years of experience to work out all the coordination, tactics, command and control, and on and on. The US has it - and has had it for 70+ years. It will take China decades to develop all that. If they ever get a chance.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2010-12-17 22:02|| 2010-12-17 22:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Yet China's best allies are a Congress that has repeatedly shown the one place they know how to seriously cut government is in Defense. Carrier task forces are truly expensive. They'll take the USN down to size faster than Beijing.

Posted by P2kontheroad 2010-12-17 22:49|| 2010-12-17 22:49|| Front Page Top

#7 The Chinese will do a good job. And they will learn.

Humble beginnings.

Posted by gorb 2010-12-17 22:57|| 2010-12-17 22:57|| Front Page Top

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