Guess they needed 3 to suppress Taiwan air assets .
Will see.
Second. Not third.
In the early 1990s, I said that a lot of our youth would die
due to our policies building up China.
That bill is coming due.
Our kids won’t be the only ones either.
There are great big dark storm clouds building folks.
Wouldn’t it be great if it sinks?
Too much to ask I guess.
I hope all three of them are sunk by the U.S. Navy.
Some days its new home will be the bottom of the South China Sea.
Red Storm Rising
Semi-carriers
U.S. Just needs to home port 2-3 new destroyers, anti-submarine planes and make port calls with subs and aircraft carriers once in a while.
Basing a couple of F-35 fighter squadrons, some air-defense systems would also help.
More sister carriers coming - Thetwins “Shebop” and “Shebangs”.
2ND CARRIER!!!!!
Opening lines:
“It is the second Chinese aircraft carrier to enter service after the Liaoning, which was originally purchased as a hulk from Ukraine and entirely refurbished. The Shandong’s commissioning last year by Chinese President Xi Jinping underscored “
Its a copy of the first, Liaoning, built in the Ukraine for the Soviet Union, sold to the Chinese as a floating casino. These have very limited usefulness - local coastal support ships, intimidation of smaller nations, etc. Not Blue Water ships.
Its the other 4 that are worrisome because they are flat tops - giving the Chinese normal carrier ops capability. One are more are nuclear powered, are built using CVN Ford tech and since that is an inoperable training ship so are the Chinese ones, until the US fixes its 13 billion dollar mistake (to be repeated 4 more times) and China steals the fixes.
The have the Laoning and the Shandong. What’s the third carrier?
Admiral Andrew Cunningham, “ABC” about naval evacuation of Crete.
“It takes the Navy three years to build a ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition. The evacuation will continue.”