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China Launches 'Fujian,' its Most Advanced Aircraft Carrier
China launches 'Fujian,' its most advanced aircraft carrier:
China launched its largest and most advanced aircraft carrier on Friday at a shipyard in Shanghai, in what state media called a "short but festive ceremony."
The 80,000-ton Fujian, named for the southern coastal province opposite Taiwan, is the first of China's three carriers to be fully designed and built domestically. Unlike China's Liaoning and Shandong carriers, which use ski-jump ramps, Fujian will launch planes using electromagnetic catapults, the technology used on current U.S. carriers.
"Although it will be years before the [carrier] enters military service and achieves initial operating capability, its launch will be a seminal moment in China's ongoing modernization efforts and a symbol of the country's growing military might," said analysts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington, in an article earlier this month.
China Launches Third Aircraft Carrier: State Media - Times of India
China launches third aircraft carrier: State media - Times of India:
[...] However, it will take years before it reaches operational capacity, as the Ministry of Defence has not announced a date for entry into service. "Sailing and mooring tests will be carried out as planned after the ship is launched," CCTV reported. China has two other aircraft carriers in service. The Liaoning was commissioned in 2012, and the Shandong entering service in 2019.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 19 2022, @02:21PM (1 child)
You're not thinking about this correctly. You don't need to sink an aircraft carrier to nullify it's combat effectiveness. The best cost-performance method will probably be something like a drone swarm with small munitions, not trying to sink the carrier, but just to damage the deck enough to disable the catapults and arresting wires. Once it can't launch or recover aircraft it's pretty much useless in combat, so why bother trying to do more?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 19 2022, @06:36PM
>so why bother trying to do more?
Headlines: West Nowherezestan SINKS US carrier John F Kennedy!!! vs. West Nowherezestan briefly disrupted flight operations on a carrier in the area.
Military actions against the US are mostly of a terrorist nature. Nobody (lately) is trying to achieve a victory over the US to dictate terms of surrender, but lots of groups would love to score a hit and count coup on the biggest symbols of US power.
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