I think we (The UK) are getting rid of our carriers. Apparently we are going to part own some with France.
Under the terms of the agreement each country will have them for 50% of the time, apparently we are having them on the way to war.
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I thought China retrofitted some used carrier and has their own now.
Edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_Liaoning
Yep
Still funny.Funny at first, but Indian armed forces don't have any caste based reservations.
china also doesn't know shit about aircraft carriers. That thing is more likely to sink than to be a threat or a deterrence anywhere. Like most things in china, it will likely explode or collapse on its own.
read? Without video most of the people on these forums are totally lost.....Amazing that no one seemed to have acurately read the article.
If I recall correctly the UK is only leasing them until their new baby carriers are ready.
Apparently the agreement is the UK gets to use them in a war, but the French get them to use for their surrender.
If it doesn't work who can they call for tech support?
No doubt they will have a call center on board to "do the needful" when there is a problem.If it doesn't work who can they call for tech support?
Dating from June, 1942, there's four sunken Japanese aircraft carriers (+ one sunken U.S. carrier) near Midway Island, if anyone wanted to try and re-float one of them. Probably pretty badly rusted by now....
I don't think they are baby carriers, it will be a full sized super carrier. They will displace around 70,000 comapred to 100,000 of the Nimitz class
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_aircraft_carrier
Chinese aircraft carriers can't float. Too much lead.
Yeah, like I said. A baby carrier. It doesn't even have catapults which severely limits take off weights of aircraft which then severely reduces capability.
In the event of a real war they will probably run and hid behind US carriers.
Huh. I was going to photoshop the carrier with a big turban on top of its conning tower when I realize... it doesn't even have a conning tower :\ how the hell do they get radar, communications, etc.. ???