China’s carrier fleet is now the second biggest after America’s. But China’s carriers are not designed for direct confrontation with America, naval experts say
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitask, China’s third carrier and its second homemade one, was an unambiguous public demonstration of its ambitions to project power, as America does, far from its shores. At roughly 318 metres long and 80,000 tonnes, the, and is surpassed only by America’s supercarriers . It also puts China’s carrier fleet ahead of Britain’s as the second biggest after America’s, which boasts 11.
China’s two operational carriers, meanwhile, use an upward-curved ramp, or “ski jump”, which works only for fighter jets with a high thrust-to-weight ratio, impeding the use of heavier weapons, like bombs. Both ships carry the-15 fighter, an unlicensed copy of Russia’s Su-33. They also carry helicopters to monitor their surroundings as longer-range fixed-wing aircraft cannot use the ski jump. That limits their ability to provide air cover for a larger naval task-force.
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