'Izumo' and her escorts. Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force
Forbes: Japan’s Building Aircraft Carriers, China’s Thinking About Sinking Them
The Japanese navy’s first aircraft carrier in 75 years is almost ready to deploy. A photo that appeared on Twitter on Wednesday depicts the helicopter carrier Izumo undergoing modification for fixed-wing operations, apparently at the Japan Marine United shipyard in Yokohama.
The Chinese military has already considered how it might sink the Japanese carriers. Which is not to say it would succeed.
The $28 million modifications underway at Yokohama will clear and reinforce Izumo’s deck in order to transform the vessel from a helicopter carrier into a light aircraft carrier capable of supporting the Japanese air force’s F-35B stealth jump jets.
Izumo’s sister vessel Kaga is slated to undergo the same modifications.
It’s unclear how many F-35s the two carriers—each 814 feet long and displacing 27,000 tons—might carry. Only a few, perhaps. The U.S. Navy’s own America-class assault ships, each displacing 45,000 tons, each can embark more than a dozen F-35Bs.
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WNU Editor: I do not think it is going to be easy to destroy the Japanese Navy.
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Editor;
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Japan has the advantage that as an island nation, it does not need to devote many resources to the army. It can concentrate them on the navy. China, as a predominate land power, can't.
Historically, the US has been more like Britain and Japan that it is primarily a seapower. It doesn't need an army to defend itself against Canada and Mexico. It can concentrate on the navy. In the last seventy years since the Korean War, the US has had a larger than usual land forces in order to defend NATO and to serve as an interventionist expeditionary force. But the US can easily switch back to its historical naval emphasis.
In the long term, China will find it can't outcompete US-Japan as a naval power in the Pacific.
Chris
True, Chris. And Japan also has Godzilla, the mighty sea monster on its side
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Fun fact: the atomic bomb tests beck then around bikini atol were not to keep on testing yields but were a cover up to actually kill Godzilla with nukes without raising eye brows about the
target. Obviously they failed and made Godzilla only stronger. China beware!
It is the jap submarine fleet that will be doing any sinking that needs doing.
With this topic I wonder if Chinese train rails can survive in an earthquake like those of in Japan
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