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National Interest: Why China Suddenly Cancelled Plans For Two Super Aircraft Carriers
China takes its cues from the U.S. Navy.
Here's What You Need To Remember: Beijing may also be having second thoughts on whether springing big bucks for big carriers is the best use of its defense budget. China’s carriers greatest value may lie more in prestige, power projection against weaker adversaries, and building experience for later capability growth, rather than as deterrence against the U.S. Navy.
China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy takes many of its cues from the U.S. Navy as it develops its carrier aviation branch. It is seeking similar flat-deck carriers to its U.S. counterpart, and has developed airborne early warning planes and electronic attack jets comparable to American E-2D Hawkeyes and EA-18 Growlers.
But that tendency may have backfired for once. That’s because the U.S. Navy has been beset by major cost overruns and delays in deploying its new generation Gerald Ford-class supercarriers due to persistent flaws in their catapults, arresting gear, radars and weapons elevators. You can read more about these many problems in an earlier article.
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WNU Editor: The Chinese Navy is having the same problems as the U.S. Navy when it comes to building aircraft carriers .... technical challenges and high costs.
3 comments:
Is far as the US is concerned, there was no reason to reinvent the wheel in terms of the new Ford class CVNs. Mixing fragile, over- complex technology with war machines seems intuitively ill advised.
It’s being borne out in the Ford delays.
Especially since China has no new technology of its own but only what it has stolen from the USA and other nations. China is a nation of leeches.
Money is drying out too.
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