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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) 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.

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