That's 150-160 thousand tons of displacement in one photograph, right there.
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CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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That's 150-160 thousand tons of displacement in one photograph, right there.
He is just stating that the US doesn't have/is losing these capabilities, nothing else...
Ah ... then sorry, but more industrial capabilities (or better capacities) since the vessels and knowledge itself is surely not lost.
Best and smartest men and women, in the United States, have been making fat pay checks as lawyers, doctors, financiers. Engineers in the fields are quite old compared with counterparts in China. The US $800 billion plus military spending could not build the $13.6 billion carrier's toilet right. Very soon, the fortune will be completely reversed. In fact, China ship building capacity is 230 times of the US; meanwhile, Chinese manufacturing is larger than the G7 combined.
Photos of 003 CV Fujian undergoing her sea trials with 956E DDG Hangzhou alongside for escort. Posted by @xx笑而不语xx on Weibo.
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Oh how far PLAN has come, it has made so much progress in the past decade, it's insane and mind boggling. To think PLAN was quite antiquated brown water navy even in early 2000's, importing foreign destroyers, now it's a world class blue water navy with indigenous supercarrier with latest EMCAT tech, skipping steam catapults entirely, it something I wouldn't have believed you! Congratulations! It's a huge milestone.
That's a clean island there !
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