And successfully operating a 93,000-ton atomic-powered aircraft carrier and its air wing in combat...
Are two entirely different things!
Even if they do it...
the Chicago Way!
Posted on 03/28/2007 8:29:26 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
& how exactly does information about W-88 warheads & B-2 bombers help you build aircraft carriers??
heh. I can't wait until they start landing practice; especially at night.
there will nothing left of US tech in 20 years - except management, legal, sales & marketing. all engineering, development, and manufacturing - will be in china and elsewhere.
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Perhaps I'm being optimistic, but when you have Japan to the East, India to the Southwest and Russia to the North, I don't think China can do a lot.
Are you serious ???
Pretty much. Russia, Japan and India don't like China and I doubt China can take on all three.
the Chicago Way!
Bottom line is that they can't develop these kinds of technologies on their own, they have developed what they have by spying, stealing, buying or borrowing. If they could do it on their own steam, they would have, but they can't. Nor do they have the same kind of cultural prejudice against stealing like we do. Like Mick Jagger said, they ain't too proud to beg. And I realize if you are a Chinese spy I will be among the first to be rounded up when you all take over!
IF the timeframe in the article are accurate,they would have operated carriers for atleast 8 years before the N-powered one comes into service.
And don't give me this "military training only bs". As if that Varyag would sit in the harbor if a war broke out. Please.
China will prove once again what it and Russia have proven before. Commies are effective at copying a current generation war machine but they have no foresight.
The weapons systems they bring on line in 2020 will be 15+ years behind what the U.S. is bringing on line in 2020.
I flew in some Tupolov's in Viet Nam in the 1990's and they were disasters but they were relatively true copies of 707's. However, Boeing didn't plan for the cockroaches crawling across the interior walls (true) nor did they equip the planes with overpowered engines which made the plane vibrate and give the sensation of an overpowered lawn mower. Thankfully, I made it from Hai Phong to Da Nang. I wasn't actually sure we'd make it.
Russia's got some big time internal problems,Japan is getting closer to China every day,and besides the worst they could do is throw transistor radios at em,and India while a future contender to China ain't there yet !!!
What's everyone worried about. With the new Deomcratic Majority in both Houses, they'll cut our military budget to the bone. That is unless there is a big change in majority come the next election.
If we play are cards correctly, this is a positive thing for us. The Chinese have even more of an interest than we do in keeping the oil moving through the Persian Gulf and the ME. Manufacturing is the reason their economy is booming & they need oil to keep production going. We need their cheap manufactured goods and they need our markets so yes we are dependent on each other. Like it or not, we need to partner with them against the islamonuts and we have a common interest. Say what you want, but good things are happening in China and I like the idea of having 1.5 billion muslim hating Chinese on our side.
thanks to Clinton.
And I'm not mentioning Taiwan or the US.
The U.S., on the other hand, will still have all ten of its Nimitz carriers and three brand new Gerald R. Ford class carriers by that time.
At this rate the Chicoms might catch up in two or three centuries..
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