China’s Junk Aircraft Carrier Fears to Sail? A Big Joke Due to Copycat Failure

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

Retired American scientists and former highly trained fighter pilots selling their country out needs to be addressed.

The Chinese's tolerance for corruption has come to bite them. Corruption doesn't just take the form of bribery, but also favoritism in hiring and promotions when the position has great prestige or high pay. With favoritism in hiring comes the hiring of incompetent people, and with the hiring of incompetent people comes shoddy engineering work.

In the oilfield we were not allowed to use Chinese shackles and hooks. They simply have sub standard smelting and tensile strength. They literally crack in half.

One thing the video didn't mention was that maintaining an aircraft carrier is super expensive. With China being nickeled and dimed by all its poor economic choices, beyond the investment cost, the price of upkeep and the many repairs has to be like a black hole in Chinese finances. China chose to run carriers because of the prestige associated with them, but I think that was a poor choice. Now they are stuck with these expensive floating rubbish bins that they can't dismantle without losing face, and can't refit because of the cost, leaving them in this limbo of having nonfunctional carriers. This is probably the worst position they could have fallen into.

They can't make a mag catapult because they can't get their hands on one to copy it...

I love hearing about Chinese investors buying up American land, like anyone is going to care when problems arise

Aircraft carriers are the most complex things humans have ever built. They combine airports, cities, jet and ship maintenance facilities, a city of 5k people and all of the facilities associated with that, and American ones are nuclear power stations. Not to mention that the steel needed to build the flight deck is incredibly hard to produce and if you mess it up the whole ship is compromise. . Also, I thought the Fujian was a diesel vessel, not nuclear.

Military doctrine and training manuals are written in blood. The U.S. is the leading carrier navy in the world, but that didn't just happen because we built a couple aircraft carriers. Every battle, every carrier lost refined our tactics and enabled us to become more and more effective and efficient. The sailors that died on the Lexington, Wasp, Yorktown, Hornet and others led to the victories later in the war. The tens of thousands of strike missions in Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf, the hundreds of thousands of takeoffs and landings, the decades of experience have led to institutional knowledge that allow the U.S. Navy to be the leading world power. That doesn't mean we're invulnerable. Close in to shore, under and umbrella of hundreds of ASMs, hypersonic missiles, and land based airpower, there is a survivability problem, but on the open ocean, the Chinese Navy wouldn't last past the first exchange and nothing they do can change that quickly.

A nuclear powered anything, considering chinese construction qualities, is terrifying.

China is a classic example of growth outpacing ability

China is realizing theft of intellectual property only gets you so far😂

The thing about stealing technology and hardware is that you don't get all the experience from R&D, just the end product with no context.

I served on the Carl Vinson CVN-70 for 3 West PACs. With intercept fighters (alert 5) able to launch within 5mins, any ship not able to match that kind of response is indeed a sitting duck. Soviet strategy was material readiness: have lots of stuff. US strategy is to have lots of practice with your stuff. Chinese strategy seems to be: make shit that looks scary, i.e. they go from no catapults, skip steam catapults COMPLETELY, and try to serial produce electro mag catapults to what? PRETEND to match the USN? I am sorry to say this, but one cannot believe ANYTHING the CCP says. Everything is SHOW to PRETEND they have reputation. That's EARNED, not demanded. If Xi is having second thoughts about invading Taiwan... that's a good thing 🎉

About 20 minuets after the war starts China will no longer need to worry about the financial burden of supporting an operational carrier.

To be fair, US Aircraft Carriers have at least 2 or 3 "convenience" stores on them. I served aboard the Theodore Roosevelt between '87 and '91 we had one relatively large store, roughly the size of an average 7/11 and 2 smaller stores about the size of an airport or mall kiosk. Additionally the IJN Shinano while a massive carrier for its time was converted from the hull of a Yamato Class Battleship which is where she got most of her mass from. She also never saw any real combat action (other than being sunk by a submarine) and never had a combat air group embarked.

Unmentioned is the other fact of the miserably short range of the Chinese diesel-powered carriers. Any operation requires they be shadowed by a refueling ship, basically a floating bomb for enemy munitions.

If you have to build a protective shed over your catapult launch system to mitigate potential rain damage, then you truly have built little more than a toaster over whose usage can’t be counted on in a pinch. Given this, and 0 trials, as well as China’s navy being classified as a brown water navy only, I would say that any blue water navy could easily sink China’s navy in a conflict. As with all Chinese products, ‘Made In China’ brings with it some well-documented lackings when it comes to operational resilence and functional talking points. It’s my guess that in 10 yrs, their navy will be covered in rust, as their economy is about to crash harder than any economy, or naval ship, in history.

I was onboard the USS Ranger in the late '80s, we had three mess decks multiple convenience stores, small shops, our own T.V. and radio stations, full-use gym, all CVAs are floating cities. They have many amenities for the sailors. The Russin ships have actual bars were you can buy drinks.

Having a carrier that doesn't dare leave port is worse than not having one. At least there's no operational expense for a carrier you don't have.