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Has the displacement tonnage for this new aircraft carrier been officially revealed yet? I had assumed it will be the same as the Liaoning, but the figures I saw reported online have been all over the place. Just about every number between 50,000 tonnes up to 70,000 tonnes can be found.
Not just US, but everybody. You have to overestimate. Any homeowner must, upon seeing one intruder, assume that there could be another. If you see the shadow of something with length, do you assume a stick or the barrel of a shotgun ? Military history is filled with events where one side underestimated its opponent.
Chinese Defense Ministry Foreign Affairs Office Major General Qian Lihua said: "The navy of any great power has the dream to have one or more aircraft carriers. The question is not whether you have an aircraft carrier, but what you do with your aircraft carrier".
I am not making this up...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7732679.stm
The implication is serious and clear: That a one-carrier navy is essentially a 'showboat' carrier navy.
You may not like the derogatory tinge but that is the reality of power projection and worse -- war. General Qian made that implication yrs before the Liaoning was commissioned.
At its core, naval airpower is the delivery of the military's most potent weapon -- airpower -- to an area outside of home support. A single hull navy is predictable, you know where he will be and where he is going to land. No different with a navy that have only one aircraft carrier, you know where his extraterritorial airpower is heading and where it will be employed. A two-carrier navy is more difficult to predict, and more so with a navy that have multiple carriers fleets. Not even restrictive waters like the Mediterranean Sea is immune from multi-front naval airpower assaults. One way or another, that adversary will find air assault avenues in that restrictive body of water.
China is looking to at least control -- if not outright own -- the South China Sea region. The size of the Liaoning and her coming sister carriers will serve China's plan for the SCS very well. While these ships are not of the 'super carrier' class, each will not require as much escorts and support as the American super carriers, making each fleet quicker to respond to any potential threat in the SCS, especially when China's potential naval challengers in the region are essentially coastal, not quite open water navies.
The US is overplaying China's threat and capabilities ? Try also Viet Nam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and even Australia in this mix.
In that case China needs to "borrow the USD printing press" from the USA to finance the dozens "conveniently", otherwise not only the costs of making those A.C., even the overall operating bill itself is choking one's economy... and it has been happening on the printing press owner too.If the USA can have 12 carriers, we should have 36. Because of our huge population to protect.
If any country is not satisfied, just build their own or call USA navy for help.
Then China needs to "borrow the USD printing press" from the USA to finance the dozens "conveniently", otherwise not only the costs of making, even the operating bills themselves are choking one's economy... and they have been happening on the printing press owner.
Update 2017 April 4th.
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For what are the parts in the hall ?? ... a civilian ship ? ... a second 001A or 001B or even already Type 002 ??