True, but my point still stands: buying a decommissioned WW2 carrier isn't what helped China get its first aircraft carrier. They didn't fast track 40 years of carrier development to get from the Melbourne to the modern age; they just bought a 1980s-era Soviet carrier.
They bought it from Ukraine.
True, but my point still stands: buying a decommissioned WW2 carrier isn't what helped China get its first aircraft carrier. They didn't fast track 40 years of carrier development to get from the Melbourne to the modern age; they just bought a 1980s-era Soviet carrier.