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Re: Ideal chinese carrier thread
Having the capabilities of building a fighter aircraft means they already have the experience, knowledge, and infrastructure to do so. By your own words "I am talking about developing the infrastructure and experience to do so...which would take several years", meaning they do not have that capability yet and but is working it. Building up these requirements is not the same as having these requirements already.
But for argument's sake, let say you are right in that capability to have capability to do A is equal to capability to do A. By that same logic, China has the capability to have the capability that can acquire... the capability to build a portal to Mars, which means China has the capability to build said portal. Isn't that awesome? :roll:
Right, they like to go with the most expensive route possible, and with ALL that deck space they would only put a few helicopters on it. Very convincing.
They could conjure up some justifications, yes, but that doesn't translate to needs. If they are that serious about ASW, then they can get P-3's, a lot of P-3's, for the amount they are putting in to their carriers. If they want to invade someone, that would be another need, and in which case you would be right and I would be wrong. However, they are a pacific nation, at least that's what I'm told, so the second reason is out of the question. They are not getting P-3's either, so it means carriers are something they are investing but don't serious need.
Just because they see something and you see something, that doesn't mean I have to be convinced about them.
A=B is not the definition of capability, it is call equivalent. For example, they can build a fighter aircraft means they can build a fighter aircraft.
Having the capabilities of building a fighter aircraft means they already have the experience, knowledge, and infrastructure to do so. By your own words "I am talking about developing the infrastructure and experience to do so...which would take several years", meaning they do not have that capability yet and but is working it. Building up these requirements is not the same as having these requirements already.
But for argument's sake, let say you are right in that capability to have capability to do A is equal to capability to do A. By that same logic, China has the capability to have the capability that can acquire... the capability to build a portal to Mars, which means China has the capability to build said portal. Isn't that awesome? :roll:
