China launched its 3rd aircraft carrier in July 2022. It is the first without a skijump ramp for launching planes. The Type 003 uses steam turbines and electromagnetic catapults. It is far larger than the first two aircraft carriers which are more like the size of the US Amphibious Assault ships.
China’s Type 001 carrier is about 43000 tons and can carry up to 40 fixed wing aircraft. 24 of the 40 would be J15 fighters.
The US Marines loaded 20 F-35b that can take off vertically on the USS Tripoli. The Tripoli (America class assault ship) has a displacement of about 45,000 tons.
The US has 11 supercarriers and 9 Assault ships (basically smaller aircraft carriers). This carriers can operate about 1000 fighter planes versus about 120 planes on China’s three smaller carriers. This is eight times the planes from the US Navy over the Chinese Navy.
The US has :
Nimitz class (10 in active service)
Gerald R. Ford class (1 in active service, 1 under construction of 10 planned)
Wasp class (7 in active service)
America class (2 in active service of 11 planned)
China is developing the Type 004 carrier which is expected to be about 110,000 tons. This would match the size of US supercarriers.
In 2018, China was believed to have put a railgun on a navy ship and tested them.
In 2022, Japan allocated about US$56 million for railgun research. The USA and Japan are considering joint development of railgun technology.
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Giving Taiwan the bomb will give china second thoughts about invading.
Not to encourage overconfidence, but I doubt very much any of these new efforts are worth a fraction of those of a country that has been operating them at large scale, worldwide, for freaking ever. China is likely doing it primarily for PR, and to try to intimidate various smaller countries that would deny them things they feel they want to claim a right to (rules don’t apply to them, just to everyone else). Things like, I dunno, the South China Sea, the Arctic Ocean, and fishing in other people’s territorial waters.
Yea, they’re no threats at all. What, me worry? Lol
You know China has hypersonic missiles. And China has nuclear weapons.
Let them use it if they have the guts! If and when they use it, that’s the end of country China. That place will be barren. All desert.
It’s true that we’ve been operating these things for a long while, but anybody who pays the least attention is aware that our military has been deteriorating for a while, on account of having a long list of priorities that go ahead of military readiness.
And institutional knowledge only lasts so long as it keeps getting taught to the next generation of people running the institution.
Well the US is “special” aka “exceptional” and everyone understands that their military capabilities are likewise “limited”. The US likely subscribes to such idioms as “only as strong as the weakest link” and it seems certain that the “the weakest link” will continue to be in charge no matter what 🙂
Maybe they could paint their aircraft carriers yellow? The idea of “yellow elephants” has some charm to it.
What’s the real targets when the US “leaders” get their idiotic war aganst China?
Is it Japan and South Korea? Taiwan as well? The US itself?
Lots of civilian technological manufacturing capabilties to destroy and the false selling point would be that the US has any chance of duplicating and replacing it.
The retarded US war against Russia is mainly targeting Germany, the UK, and Europe in general and is chasing anyone sensible to China rather than to the US. For “friends” and “allies” the quality of life is plummeting towards US levels which for most people in the US is really low. Part of the problem with that might be that the US planners don’t understand —and certainly don’t care— that the US is rouhgly at the same latitude as Spain and northernmost Africa so the kind of mistreatment that might not kill off all of their slaves in the US will soon enough cause failure in colder climates.
Some sort of Russian or China state blogger has crept in, it would appear. Or, worse, someone who wants us to think he is.
Of course, the biggest vulnerability of an aircraft carrier is actually the politician telling the military what to do with it; China invests a lot in politicians.
I would say hypersonic missiles is the biggest threat.
China doesn’t have a lot of carriers but what they do have is a lot of *ships*. They’re mostly focused on invading Taiwan and fighting off the US, rather than projecting power around the world. They also have vastly more shipbuilding capacity than the US, and they’re building more ships at a rapid pace.
swarm of cheap drones/stealth underwater swarm of cheap drones and big boat sinks, one of the worst possible investments in modern times
Yes!