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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 arslan on Thursday May 16 2019, @04:22AM

    by arslan (3462) on Thursday May 16 2019, @04:22AM (#844116)

    It is a mobile Island. China will sail it across the South China Sea, anchor it permanently, call it an Island of the People's Republic of Xi and claim the surrounding territorial waters. The fact that they can ferry aircrafts just means they get an airstrip on the island.

    There will be a few more of these rolling out. Whoever says the "Age of Sea Power Wanes" is clearly thinking too small. Most of the landed boundary lines are much harder to dispute in the modern world, international waters not so much.

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