How to fuck up your tourist attractions, China style
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No, their older carriers are the ones that used the ski ramp. What they did was they tried to replicated the electromagnetic catapults the US is switching to to replace the steam based ones (the EM launchers being capable of heavier planes and/or higher payloads). BUT it still uses diesel engines instead of the nuclear reactors US carriers do, so they very quickly discovered they dont generate enough electrical power to actually run the catapults. They also apparently fucked up the build quality (like usual), and it was spotted in drydock with cracks running through the flight deck.
The Chinese military is a joke, and the only threat they pose is subversion. And even that is starting to wane as their economy sputters and dies.
Don't worry. A few more generations of DEI hires and I'm sure we can have shitty power generation and cracked flight decks in the west too.
With our glorious ruling class' expert leadership, one day, we WILL catch down to China!
I don't think it's appropriate to compare reality to cartoons but god damn I cant help but notice how China is literally a saturday cartoon force of evil where the head honcho is a slightly charismatic midwit ruling over a bunch of incompetent half conscious simpletons.
Something something rocket fuel for cooking ramen.