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China Builds New Type 002 Mega Carrier as the Age of Sea Power Wanes

posted by martyb on Wednesday May 15 2019, @03:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the The-bigger-they-are dept.

Chocolate writes:

Who's is bigger? Russia or the good old US of A? Do we need to get out the measuring tape? Maybe we do, after China completes what looks to be the latest generation naval defense: the Type 002 aircraft carrier that is currently under construction in a floodable dry dock. Tinfoil hatters among us will be glad to hear that updates of the progress for the construction of this mighty vessel come from satellite imagery. Now that battleships are pretty much obsolete with maybe carriers to follow this latest addition to China's growing fleet may just be an expensive showboat.

Entry for the carrier on Wikipedia.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @03:17PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @03:17PM (#843856)

    The whole point of the F-35B, and the AV-8B Harrier II before it.

    It might not be legit to say that there are 20 active aircraft carriers in the world. That disqualifies small American ones, while counting foreign ones of the same size. Nearly all of the foreign ones are about the size of those little things that the Marines fly off of.

    If we are fair, there are either more than 20 (by counting the small ones) or far less than 20 (counting only the big ones). Either there are only a few foreign ones, or the USA has about another dozen.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 15 2019, @03:27PM (2 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 15 2019, @03:27PM (#843859) Journal

    Good point. I didn't bother to compare the sizes and capabilities of the carriers.

    As for the VTOL, isn't the UK the only nation actually doing VTOL? That was my impression, at any rate.

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @04:14PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 15 2019, @04:14PM (#843871)

      With UAVs like the X-47B, it should be possible to operate from smaller decks with higher G forces.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday May 16 2019, @12:02AM

      by bob_super (1357) on Thursday May 16 2019, @12:02AM (#844028)

      STOVL ... You are responding to a post mentioning the US marines and F-35B.
      Any ship carrying those guys should qualify as an "aircraft carrier".

      Well, technically, any ship carrying a helicopter is an aircraft carrier (and so is my car when the neighbor's kid has her drone). But we only count the one whose primary design goal is to launch aircraft. Flattops, essentially. The US has quite a few more than the 10 (11?) supercarriers.