Taiwan likely won't be invaded. China is very good at elite capture and is slowly bringing Taiwan under more control everyday. It is more useful as a new Hong Kong, a quasi independent interface with foreigners. At worst, there will be an Anschluss.
It's worth noting that the role of aircraft carriers today is not what it was in the second world war.
In the modern era, carriers are for bombing third world shit holes. They're useless against a near peer foe because they are just unbelievably attractive targets that are one hypersonic glide vehicle away from the loss of 5,000 personnel and a ten billion dollar investment.
This carrier primarily empowers China to bend 3rd world countries to its will, in the same way the America's aircraft carriers do.
Let me Cartman Laugh at this. Is this the same one that died in the water on a routine outing or an updated one with a fully functioning surge protector? China's naval technology is only superior in one form, how fast it ceases to function.
Taiwan likely won't be invaded. China is very good at elite capture and is slowly bringing Taiwan under more control everyday. It is more useful as a new Hong Kong, a quasi independent interface with foreigners. At worst, there will be an Anschluss.
Look how well they're doing with the US!
EMALS on a non-nuclear CV. How Chinese.
I wonder who they stole it from.
One of our politicians probably sold them the schematics in exchange for a "massage".
Fang Fang had to break out the strap-on for this one.
How long will it takes to charge one captapult without nukes. 5mins? 10mins? Hour? Instead of scrambling jets, they'll have to settle for sous vide.
Hypersonic weapons (like what Russia currently has) makes aircraft carriers largely obsolete and pretty much sitting ducks.
The USA has recently successfully completed one test of hypersonic weapons, but they are years away from reliable manufacture of those.
At the moment it seems that Russia is the most advanced military in the world, and they seem happy to sell some of that tech to China.
The decades of corruption in the USA military industrial complex seem to be biting them on the ass.
But... that is relying on publicly available information so there are likely other secrets hidden that we aren't aware of.
I hope when they start airdropping materiel to "moderate rebels" in the US I get a nice Technical and maybe some AK-47s.
Here's the chain of custody on the arms dropped to US moderate rebels by the Russians in that scenario:
US taxpayer money > US government > "US" arms corps (with kickbacks back to US government) > US Government > Ukraine > Russia > US rebels.
It's a bit roundabout, but at least we'd finally receive some small fraction of what we're paying for.
If my tax dollars were being used to give me guns instead of to take them away I would consider that a net win.
Carrier has arrived
America's Navy is too busy naming boats after sodomite predators to bother caring.
It's worth noting that the role of aircraft carriers today is not what it was in the second world war.
In the modern era, carriers are for bombing third world shit holes. They're useless against a near peer foe because they are just unbelievably attractive targets that are one hypersonic glide vehicle away from the loss of 5,000 personnel and a ten billion dollar investment.
This carrier primarily empowers China to bend 3rd world countries to its will, in the same way the America's aircraft carriers do.
Never change china... never change.
Didn't the US navy try electric catapults and fail bigly? Im' not saying it can't be made to work.
Let me Cartman Laugh at this. Is this the same one that died in the water on a routine outing or an updated one with a fully functioning surge protector? China's naval technology is only superior in one form, how fast it ceases to function.