Relax: China’s First Aircraft Carrier Is A Piece Of Junk -- The Danger Room
Her new guns are installed. Her light-gray paint job has dried. Her airplanes are flying and her engines are turning. Thirteen years after she was purchased from Ukraine half-complete and lacking engines, the Chinese navy’s very first aircraft carrier is ready to set sail from Dalian shipyard in northeast China. The former Soviet carrier Varyag, renamed Shi Lang
Her new guns are installed. Her light-gray paint job has dried. Her airplanes are flying and her engines are turning. Thirteen years after she was purchased from Ukraine half-complete and lacking engines, the Chinese navy’s very first aircraft carrier is ready to set sail from Dalian shipyard in northeast China. The former Soviet carrier Varyag, renamed Shi Lang in Chinese service, could begin sea trials this summer.
My Comment: China's first aircraft carrier has always been more of a political statement rather than a military one. Considering the reaction among many of China's neighbors .... this aircraft carrier has already been a smashing success.
Just how worried should the world be?
Read more ....My Comment: China's first aircraft carrier has always been more of a political statement rather than a military one. Considering the reaction among many of China's neighbors .... this aircraft carrier has already been a smashing success.