CN China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, launched in Shanghai

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China on Friday launched its third aircraft carrier, which has been named the Fujian after the country's southeastern coastal province.

The new carrier was put into water at a launch ceremony that started at about 11 a.m. at China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation's Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai.

Xu Qiliang, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), presented a naming certificate to the navy unit receiving the carrier.

Approved by the CMC, the Fujian was given the hull number 18.

The new ship, completely designed and built domestically, is the country's first aircraft carrier featuring catapults.

With a flat deck, it's equipped with an electromagnetic catapult aircraft launch system and interception facilities. Its full load displacement is over 80,000 tonnes.

The carrier will undergo mooring and sailing tests as planned.

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The carrier is named after the province opposite the currently colonially occupied Chinese province of Taiwan.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

this is the true enemy we should fight together- a complete cronism dictatorship parody of capitalism
instead we fight a moronic war in ukraine, thanks to pooting

 

[Mojo Thief]

Is this future Taiwan Strait diving destination still running Soviet-era bunker oil, or is it nuclear powered?

 

[John McAfee]

Will this one sit higher than the water line this time? For a country that steals everything good about every other country, they are notoriously shit at implementation.

 

[Reverend]

The new ship, completely designed and built domestically, is the country's first aircraft carrier featuring catapults.

something the US has had for how many decades? At least 4 since they were used in Top Gun.

I'm less worried about China's military technology and more worried about their sheer vast numbers. This is how the US won WW2 and Lost Vietnam and Korea:volume of boots on the ground vs the enemy.

 

[Übertroon]

this is the true enemy we should fight together- a complete cronism dictatorship parody of capitalism
instead we fight a moronic war in ukraine, thanks to pooting

You tell Putin that and persuade him to not kill Ukrainian nazis. But honestly I see no reason to fight China either. The true enemy is the fifth column forces at home, and those egging on war against China while ignoring Russian aggression

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

something the US has had for how many decades? At least 4 since they were used in Top Gun.

I'm less worried about China's military technology and more worried about their sheer vast numbers. This is how the US won WW2 and Lost Vietnam and Korea:volume of boots on the ground vs the enemy.

Their numbers is their main advantage but due to the one child policy their country is more fragile than it should be for their size. Each dead soldier is the end of 4 families. In this way India could absorb more casualties than they could.

Will this one sit higher than the water line this time? For a country that steals everything good about every other country, they are notoriously shit at implementation.

I bet it’s as high quality as their high rise buildings.

 

[Getting tard comed]

Looks kinda small.


Then again, it's Chinese :>

 

[Breadbassket]

I'm less worried about China's military technology and more worried about their sheer vast numbers. This is how the US won WW2 and Lost Vietnam and Korea:volume of boots on the ground vs the enemy.

To be fair, on the topic of Vietnam, this is the same country China themselves couldn't beat in the late 1970s despite having a far larger population.

 

[Rykel22]

China's third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, launched in Shanghai​

And promptly sank.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Yeah, Vietnam isn’t an issue of numbers, but of geography home field advantage and guerilla warfare tactics that the US military is ill-suited to deal with without going full scorched-earth and razing the entire jungle.

The biggest problem with China’s military is that they are basically completely untested. The US military, as many issues as it may have today, has been acting as world police for most of the last century, and has plenty of fighting experience under its belt.

America also has something China sorely lacks: allies that have a vested interest in the continued dominance of the United States, specifically because our dominance over them means that China isn’t. We have a lot further to fall before China can expect to beat us and our Allie’s in a head-on war.

To be fair, on the topic of Vietnam, this is the same country China themselves couldn't beat in the late 1970s despite having a far larger population.

 

[quaawaa]

Yeah, Vietnam isn’t an issue of numbers, but of geography home field advantage and guerilla warfare tactics that the US military is ill-suited to deal with without going full scorched-earth and razing the entire jungle.

Vietnam was also the first war with real time media, and the media lied about the progress and turned victories into defeats in the American people's mind because they were communist sympathizers who were outraged that we were killing commies.

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

Yeah, Vietnam isn’t an issue of numbers, but of geography home field advantage and guerilla warfare tactics that the US military is ill-suited to deal with without going full scorched-earth and razing the entire jungle.

The biggest problem with China’s military is that they are basically completely untested. The US military, as many issues as it may have today, has been acting as world police for most of the last century, and has plenty of fighting experience under its belt.

America also has something China sorely lacks: allies that have a vested interest in the continued dominance of the United States, specifically because our dominance over them means that China isn’t. We have a lot further to fall before China can expect to beat us and our Allie’s in a head-on war.

Also the fact that the US couldn't actually push too far into North Vietnam out of fear of the Chinese interfering, so the US could never really fully defeat the Communists and finish the war even if they wanted to.

 

[The Taco Santo!]

The only thing that Chinese militaries have ever been good at is warlordism and internal massacres of the Chinese population. I don't expect that to change much in the next few decades. it's much more likely that China will fall into another one of their eternal cycles of civil strife and famine than it is that China will become a serious adversary around the globe ( or even regionally).

 

[Stoneheart]

something the US has had for how many decades? At least 4 since they were used in Top Gun.

no, not those. the ones that use giant rocks.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Will this one sit higher than the water line this time? For a country that steals everything good about every other country, they are notoriously shit at implementation.

They just seem not that good at copying the Russian and US originals. It's honestly a bit strange given various achievements in other areas.

 

[MrJokerRager]

this is the true enemy we should fight together- a complete cronism dictatorship parody of capitalism
instead we fight a moronic war in ukraine, thanks to pooting

You tell Putin that and persuade him to not kill Ukrainian nazis. But honestly I see no reason to fight China either. The true enemy is the fifth column forces at home, and those egging on war against China while ignoring Russian aggression

China funds the fifth column like many Democrats and some Republicans to a large degree including folks like Biden, who removed all Trump sanctions on Russia and its oil as well as being weak on the EU on urging them to drop the Russian oil prior to Russian aggression.

They are both rivals to Uncle Sam.

 

[Lord Neeba]

Yeah, Vietnam isn’t an issue of numbers, but of geography home field advantage and guerilla warfare tactics that the US military is ill-suited to deal with without going full scorched-earth and razing the entire jungle.

The biggest problem with China’s military is that they are basically completely untested. The US military, as many issues as it may have today, has been acting as world police for most of the last century, and has plenty of fighting experience under its belt.

America also has something China sorely lacks: allies that have a vested interest in the continued dominance of the United States, specifically because our dominance over them means that China isn’t. We have a lot further to fall before China can expect to beat us and our Allie’s in a head-on war.

Does the US have fighting experience under its belt, at least any that would matter for a hypothetical war with China? That's primarily going to be a sea and air war, not a land war. The last time we fought a meaningful air war war was Vietnam. The last time we fought anyone with a navy was WWII. Heck, the last time anyone, anywhere fought a meaningful naval war was the Falklands.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Does the US have fighting experience under its belt, at least any that would matter for a hypothetical war with China? That's primarily going to be a sea and air war, not a land war.

Why do people say this kind of dumb shit?

You can have all the carriers and jets you want.

They can't take and hold territory.

If you can't take and hold territory, all you're doing is wasting lives.

And numbers aren't going to help China in this fight.

The US specializes in force projection and force multipliers. Everyone else more or less just copies.

It's why 12 snake eating retards could kill 400 Russian mercs while jerking off to furry porn and sniffing each other assholes.

 

[Lord Neeba]

Why do people say this kind of dumb shit?

You can have all the carriers and jets you want.

They can't take and hold territory.

If you can't take and hold territory, all you're doing is wasting lives.

And numbers aren't going to help China in this fight.

The US specializes in force projection and force multipliers. Everyone else more or less just copies.

It's why 12 snake eating retards could kill 400 Russian mercs while jerking off to furry porn and sniffing each other assholes.

Lol, what kind of idiotic nonsense is this. If you don't directly border a country, your army is irrelevant if you're navy and air force aren't winning. What, do you expect the USMC to swim to Taiwan if the navy isn't able to maintain control over the straights?