Comments on: Is China Moving Toward a Carrier?

By: dfjk

dfjk — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:05:54 +0000

Indians buy most of their parts from other countries. If there is a conflict between India and the makers of their planes/weapons/ships they are doomed. Their industrial base is a joke compared to China.

By: dfjk

dfjk — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:04:02 +0000

Indians like to say things and brag about stuff they have but they suck.

By: shantanu chatterjee

shantanu chatterjee — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:47:34 +0000

Don’t worry guys we Indians/Russians have brahmos 2(mach 8 hypersionic cruise missile) in the works :)
Aircraft carries are only effective if you have complete battlefield dominance or else they are sitting ducks for Su-30mkis armed with Brahmos1/2(and similar aircraft) which will be our most likely response to a chinese incursion in our far east.

By: George Skinner

George Skinner — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:02:28 +0000

Why would China want aircraft carriers? Because China is far more dependent on foreign oil than the U.S. or Russia. All of that oil is transported to China by sea, and it wouldn’t be particularly difficult for any half-assed navy to interdict the sea lanes and cut off the supply. That’s the pleasant explanation. The less comforting explanation would be that China has designs to be an expansionist power, and they need carriers to project military power effectively.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:04:48 +0000

I am going to have to agree with gawker on this one.
Even thought China is trying to show its “major power” status, its main international goal for the foreseeable future is the taking of Taiwan.
With that in mind I do not see China spending the money for a long range carrier.
Maybe a short range carrier. One that can launch, but not recover aircraft non-VSTOL aircraft.
This would allow them to use smaller ships, give them the ability to attach from the sea, and project power hundreds of miles from the mainland.
Of course even this is a wild speculation. The last ships to launch but not recover aircraft (at least not from the air) I think were WW2 battleships. They would launch seaplanes that would be recovered from the ocean.
The most likely reason for the cross training is to have Navy officers who know how to operate with the Air-Force.
Even in China it is probably hard to get all the branches to play nice.….

By: tontochoc

tontochoc — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:24:15 +0000

Forget the carrier, they only have a handful of modern destroyers and frigates. They could only pout one Carrier Battle Group to sea leaving no modern surface escorts for anything else.
I can’t see India giving them any assistance as besides animosities, the Indians may have not have a carrier when the two rust buckets retire and there is nothing to replace them. The Russian carrier is so far behind schedule it has become arunning sore in relations with Russia.
Whos going to provide the aircraft? Russia, France or the Uited States. It’s going to a be along time into the future befote it happens. Europey

By: gawker

gawker — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:36:23 +0000

Why do we expect that China wants carriers?
Unlike Japan or the US that needs air power a long way from home (respectively SE Asia and WestPac), China has the luxury of being able to reach out without the need to leave home.
Maybe short runway training is due to the Chinese fear of having their airbases being targeted.

By: stephen russell

stephen russell — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:25:53 +0000

China could Upgrade that ex Soviet carrier given her funds EZ & modify aircraft for role.
Very scary, Chinese carrier off HI,
Pearl Harbor 2?
Blue Water Navy at Sea since 1991.
Very doable or Chinese adapt plans & build carrier New from scratch.
Very doable, but long time.