'We Like Tank U.S. For Free Missle Guidance'.
Posted on 11/04/2009 10:29:20 PM PST by sonofstrangelove
Edited on 11/04/2009 11:17:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Taiwan said Wednesday that its giant neighbour China has started building its first aircraft carrier, a move analysts have said could raise military tensions in the region. The head of Taiwan's National Security Bureau told parliament construction of the carrier had begun, Lin Yu-fang, a legislator of the ruling Kuomintang party, told AFP.
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Taiwanese military experts expect the People’s Liberation Army to take at least 10 years to have its first operating carrier group
They’ve progressed far since Bernie Schwartz gave them our missile guidance technology.
/sarc.
China has been buying and adapting Russian naval technologies as it introduces new ships to the fleet in fits and starts.
So, this is the big holiday gift available exclusively at Wal-Crap?
'We Like Tank U.S. For Free Missle Guidance'.
Ping!
I don’t understand Freepers who chuckle at Red China’s technological ‘pretentions’. These are bright people with a growing economy, a lot of determination and a long time frame. Thirty years from now they may well be able to hand a complacent America its ass.
Thirty years isn’t exactly forever: It’s only as far in the future as Reagan’s election is in the past.
The pic showing the constructions of the PAR is only a few days old. The earlier one was a couple of mon ths ago when they had dismantled portions of the island.
FYI Russia is also starting to build carriers. Yet the US is stopping carrier building after the the Ford, thanks to Nobama.
Also, remember that the ChiComs' kicked the stuffing out of the U.S. Army in the winter of late 1950 and early 1951, and that they certainly have the capability and willpower to do it again.
Hey Jeff, where do you get these awesome pictures? And are the ChiComs actually going to leave the carrier’s island ‘red’?
The red is just the primer. They will paint the island in the traditional PLAN colors as soon as they are finished working on it.
The Chinese are just completing a mockup of the entire deck and island on land at the Chinese Naval Institute in Wuhan, housed on top of a building they use as hanger spaces where they will train their personnel in deck and hanger operations now, long before the vessel is complete.
I'll post a bunch of pictures of that facility too in a while. It is clear that the Chinese are moving rapidly forward now with their plans for the Varyag.
A future target for the U.S. Navy.
a move analysts have said could raise military tensions in the regionGosh, we should build windmills throughout the United States and produce all our own electricity so we can through 1000s more out of work when we shut down all the coal mines. We can get a great deal on the windmills and the generators from Chinese manufacturers.
Eh... I think we should let the Japanese have a strong navy about the same time we let the Germans build up their armor formations and air force. Which is to say not for another century, those guys are still on probation!
I couldn’t agree more. These same folks laugh at Europe for allowing Hitler to build towards war, and at the same time thinks it’s nothing but funny when folks warn that China is up to the very same thing.
There are times when it seems like both sides in this nation are just plain whacked out.
Building aircraft carriers is hard enough, learning to operate them properly is a major undertaking, especially if you are starting from scratch. Ten years sounds optimistic.
One US Army regiment stopped a Chinese Corp cold that winter. The regiment then went on to act as the X Corps rear guard as the Marines withdrew.
The Army regiment won a Navy Unit Citation.
Looks like the Langley, US CV-1
His unit went all the way to the Yalu River, but when the ChiComs counter attacked in December, it was overrun. My uncle was shot squarely between the eyes, but it was a spent bullet and did not penetrate his skull. All of his buddies were killed, and he laid in a foxhole for three days and three nights before he crept out and somehow made his way back to U.S. lines. He said that the temperature dropped below zero during those three nights, and that while he was laying there playing dead, the ChiCom troops would occasionally come running buy and jump over him.
During the battle, he was initially armed with a M-1 .30 caliber carbine. But after a ChiCom soldier charged him with a bayonet and it took 10 rounds to drop him (just barely out of arms length), my uncle said that he immediately dropped the carbine and picked up one of his dead buddies' M-1 Garand so that he could keep on fighting but with far greater stopping power.
Scary stuff, and my uncle's war experience scarred him for life. He's even got a small scar on his forehead from where the bullet hit him. He became an alcoholic and would not talk about what happened until only recently, when he opened up to me and told me everything. He's 78 now, and just wanted to get it all off his chest.
Ten years will pass. So will twenty, and thirty....
We did it in 10 years.
I’d give the Germans more credit there than the Japanese. At least they’ve fronted up to their horrors in WW2, whilst the Japanese ‘apologies’ have been nonexistenet mainly and the occasional ones that do emanate avoid issues like Nanking, Unit 731 or their treatment of the islands in the war...
Saying sorry isn’t a panacea but it’s a start. I won’t trust them again until they’ve done so. Neither will their neighbours, capitalist and communist, until a long time subsequent.
Not with jet aircraft you didnt.
Makes sense.
We decrease, they increase.
The displacement, at 20,000 tons, is only half of the Wasp class amphibious assault ships. Is this all the power plant can handle?
Lengthwise, the Hiryu had about 50 yards on the Langley.
Looks nothing like the Langley, US CV-1
Closer comparison in appearance, size, capacity, to USS Ranger CV-4
To sheep, other sheep are different. Or to Shepards.
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