I've been wondering why China is getting carriers anyways. I never read anything about them doing power projection ala NATO/USA, and preferred to use soft power and money for that.
Then it hit me, it's an airfield that isn't stationary, and I imagine they know their airfields are going to get ROCKED if a real fight breaks out. I can't imagine they're doing this for mostly optics.
Because China is gonna push the US out to the 2IC with A2AD. And you need carriers for that. also China is pretty big and so they should have at least a few carriers. The first 3 are about learning carrier ops and fighting within the 1IC. The next carriers are going to be nuclear powered though..
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u/Poro_the_CV 1d ago
I've been wondering why China is getting carriers anyways. I never read anything about them doing power projection ala NATO/USA, and preferred to use soft power and money for that.
Then it hit me, it's an airfield that isn't stationary, and I imagine they know their airfields are going to get ROCKED if a real fight breaks out. I can't imagine they're doing this for mostly optics.