MailOnline: China launches its first ever self-built aircraft carrier
每日邮报:中国第一艘自主航空母舰下水
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4446206/China-launches-domestically-built-aircraft-carrier-media.html#comments
tommie12311
let them build as much as they see fit.... its just more targets to take out on the battle field ....UlyaReply totommie12311
Thank you for your comment, China can build about 20-25 of these for the price of 1 US carrier, they can afford to lose a few and not care, if the US lost a single carrier the world would never hear the end of your complaining and we would be subjected to a movie of US heroism.tdog7600
Didn't Trump say that China will help with North Korea? Wrong again. China is not amassing troops on the NK/China border to stop refugees, those troops are reinforcements.justcurious
Why are we wasting billions on 2 carriers, what difference will that make to peace,?Is there nothing else in this country which needs the money?StonedNotStupid
Ewww, Bob Hope with a stringy mustache. Those things always look so comical, like one you'd order out of the Acme catalog, not a real aircraft carrier. Pretty sure if you want to be taken seriously, you shouldn't need a ski-jump to launch your intrepid eagles into the sky. Show some class and self-respect, sheesh. )HPD2277
Carriers are okay for proxy wars and small conflicts, but if there is ever another global war they will go the way of the battleship in WW2. Missiles negate the carrier in a world war. This happens in every major war....out with the old and in with the new.Brother IsaacReply toHPD2277
During the Middle East conflicts, we shot our wad of missiles in a matter of months and rushed to open facilities to make more. What would happen if there were a counter attack that would require more? Should we go nuclear at that point? If it were an established enemy like Russia and China that would immediately sink our carriers and then deal with the secondary missile threat, would we go nuclear then too? Any global conflict would not really last long because the risk is so great, the respective players would throw all in. This sort of posturing drives us to that point. It's not good and to think otherwise the U.S. can continue its hegemony and hubris over others will not be tolerated for long will quickly come to an end. And so will us.BillyBasherReply toHPD2277
That's why carriers are surrounded by Aegis class Cruisers and Destroyers who can track and launch anti-aircraft missiles at over 100 targets at a time. Believe me when I say they are the most protected ship the world has ever known. Ship Captains are even trained to sacrifice their own ship by maneuvering between any anti-ship missile that gets through and the carrier.PioneerReply toHPD2277
You're clearly not a strategist or a general, lol. The world has come a long way since World War II, and most carriers are protected by battle groups as well as aircraft. It would not be so simple as it was in World War II. Also, in a large war, an Aircraft carrier would not be sent to the front lines.Edward Toner
I think we're lucky they only 2. If they wanted to they easily build a bigger navy than america, and quickly.Ken Bok
Good lookin ship if I may say so and being conventional powered ,less risk of radiation leakage and poisoning should it be hit by a torpedo