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70-year dream of aircraft carrier close to reality
South China Morning Post (SCMP) ^
| Apr 7, 2011
| Minnie Chan & Julian Ryall
Posted on 04/07/2011 6:47:42 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
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Refitting work on China's first aircraft carrier
To: sukhoi-30mki
The Chinese history with large ships says they flirt iwth and build such items for a while, do stuff with them, then turn their back on the barbarian world outside and destroy their own navy.
We'll see if they are different this time. Frankly I think they are afraid of being "contaminated".
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posted on
04/07/2011 6:52:37 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
(Make America Safe For Amercans)
To: sukhoi-30mki
After the sea trials are finished, it will also need at least eight years to test its radar and weapons systems such as the J-15, early warning planes and others on board So...for about a decade, it's just an enourmous barge. How unimpressive.
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posted on
04/07/2011 6:53:49 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Tagline under construction: Your American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars at work.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
I’m concerned China is soon going to be eating our lunch economically and militarily, and we have only our Presidents, Congress, Wall St and our former US corporations (now corps without a country) to blame. We handed them our economy and our market under the premise of fair trade and from that platform they are building their military.
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posted on
04/07/2011 6:59:14 AM PDT
by
apoliticalone
(Conservatism is about putting the USA first, not international bankers and corporations)
To: apoliticalone
Im concerned China is soon going to be eating our lunch economically and militarily
The first part has already happened. We must bring manufacturing back to the U.S..
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:03:05 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
To: edpc
I think it takes the USA about 6 years, start-to-finish, to create one of our latest Nimitz Class carriers.
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:05:17 AM PDT
by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
A 70-year dream of an aircraft carrier that is all(?) Chinese may come true soon, but, God forbid, in a shooting war between matched rivals, it’ll have a still-floating expectancy of about 70 seconds beyond the initiation of hostilities, given the capabilities of modern subs, missiles, and torpedos. In America, today’s Navy might be a gayed-down “Force for Good” that projects tsunami and earthquake relief and helps Obama alert a dictator who “needs to go” that his “inner circle knows their days are numbered”, and “the noose has tightened”, but in the real deal, surface ships are just waiting for their prioritized destruction.
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:06:17 AM PDT
by
flowerplough
(Thomas Sowell: Those who look only at Obama's deeds tend to become Obama's critics.)
To: magslinger
To: sukhoi-30mki
Does this mean the plan to turn it into a casino is defintely off the table?
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:09:26 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Radioactive plume to hit USA. President Obama and family fly to Brazil)
To: sukhoi-30mki
But China would have its first formal carrier fighting group in 10 years And we will spend the decade, after ejecting Obama and cleaning up the mess he left behind, equipping all our carriers with megawatt-class Free Electron Lasers, equipping the F-35C/Pegasus UCAS with kilowatt-class FEL's for air combat and developing undetectable swarm weapons to fill Chinese skies and destroy any threat before it becomes airborne.
No, I am not asleep.
To: sukhoi-30mki
But....But....But..But....But....But..But...I thought China had a Carrier Killing Missile! Why would they waste time on a ship that they (your lord and master the god like Chinese) have made obsolete
Maybe, just Maybe it is because they know there Missiles haven't made our Carriers obsolete..................................................................NAH! VICTORY TO THE PEOPLES STATE! (sorry just being your typical Debbie downer when it comes to the Chinese)
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:17:38 AM PDT
by
KC_Lion
(America is on the Brink of War with itself, and no one seems to notice or care.)
To: sukhoi-30mki; Jeff Head
Good morning. Who reported that the Varyag was going to be a casino?
No matter, I still want to watch their carrier quals. Some beer, and hot dogs from about 2 miles away. My bet is they splash two planes, and have a fire on the flight deck the first day.
5.56mm
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:19:04 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: Rudder
That's true. The USS Ronald Reagan had its keel laid in 1998, was christened in 2001, and commissioned in 2003. However, it received flight deck certification in 5 months after its initial shakedown. That's a pretty big difference between the 8 years the article says they'll need after the Chinese carrier's 2 year sea trials.
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:23:07 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Tagline under construction: Your American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars at work.)
To: edpc
AND, assuming there are no cats on that jump deck, they should be able to do FLT deck certs in about 3 months.
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:27:10 AM PDT
by
wxgesr
(I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
To: edpc; Rudder
One of the goals of the new Ford(shudder) Class is to reduce build time and the associated man hours. A big thing will be no steam cats. The steam system is large and takes a lot of time to fabricate and install. Running wires is easier.
To: sukhoi-30mki
A Navy Cross waiting to happen.
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:42:04 AM PDT
by
paddles
("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
To: mad_as_he$$
I would deploy all the Ford class vessels to the Atlantic. That way, we would be assured there’s no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:42:11 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Tagline under construction: Your American Recovery and Reinvestment Act dollars at work.)
To: KC_Lion
Maybe they aren’t planning to use their missile on their own carrier.
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:45:19 AM PDT
by
palmer
(Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
To: mad_as_he$$
The last Nimitz Class built, CVN GHW Bush, has no steam cats.
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posted on
04/07/2011 7:52:56 AM PDT
by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: sukhoi-30mki
I just don’t see how this will work. Every time they launch a plane, they’ll put holes in two or three sails and then they have to stop to stitch up the sails.
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posted on
04/07/2011 8:07:37 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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