How could you know there is more than 6 ??
Where is your 700+ Gen 4 fighters ?
Don't tell me that J10 is your gen 4 fighters, those are gen 3rd
You spent so much time on here and you came to the conclusion that J-10 is 3rd gen? 3rd generation is J-7. Come on man, J-10B is 4+ generation now, which according to the latest should have at least 20 by now.
You do know the Chinese and American classification is not the same right? So our 3rd gen is their fourth gen, since we skipped a generation, being that we started much later.
Also I know it's not six because from just the current pictures available it's not 6. There's 3 on the carrier maybe more, and there's at least 4 on the ground and 6-10 more in the factory. Of course this is way old info, like half a year if not more, so the exact number now is not known to me. But it's closer to 20 than to 6.
China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, returned to Dalian Shipyard dock to undergo its first interim service on April, 17, 2014.
Experts predicted that the service will last for six months;
The Liaoning formally entered into service with the Chinese navy in September 2012.
The liaoning is our first carrier, it will undergo certain upgrades based on these two years of service and experience. Our carrier is not a finished product, we do this all the time with our other equipments, it's just that it gets less attention.
Even the location of closets could provide faster readiness, so anything and everything is not set, and we are learning and building at the same time.
noting related to jealousy, just don't open big mouth with such fake toy to threat us..
Vietnam is right next to us, the only reason to use a carrier in this scenario would be a multi prong attack. Which is a good idea, since 24-30 fourth gen heavy fighters is potent against a country with about that number for the entire armed forces.
Vietnam can't match China militarily, that's not news or surprise, you are a much smaller country than us, if we both do things the right way, you can't match us. If every Chinese donate a dollar, it'll still be more than if every Vietnamese donate 10 dollars. So, it's natural.
I think the arrestor system was not provided by Russia, so china made system by themselves is fake, so accident could happen in any time. other than a steel materials made in China don't have same tech specification with carrier materials. when the temperature could changed, so lead to to damage.
It was provided by Ukraine and we are making our own too. Accidents happen period, you know how often American carriers have accidents? These things happen, you are trying to land a plane on a moving and small platform. Things are going to happen.