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China launches aircraft carrier the length of 13.6 brontosauruses

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Looking at the lottery of outcomes, and the fact that the House always wins, it could be argued that ownership of aircraft carriers is a casino operation. Cost overruns on the US Ford class carriers are hardly something to be proud of, and the UK's dismal mess of building carriers big enough to have catapults, but forgetting to spec them... well.

I would beg to differ with the article though that whilst China may have built this new one themselves, it is so similar to the Kuznetsov class that it clearly is a modest design revision with a bit of the fat trimmed - hardly a true indigenous capability. If they got the paper designs from Ukraine, then all they've done is bash the metal out for a near 40 year old design, if they've tried to recreate the designs from the metal then lord knows what sort of podge up they've got.

But, good luck to the them! Let the Chinese find out the hard way what a dismal money sink carriers are, how vulnerable they are to missiles. I suppose that their real purpose isn't to face off to the Yanks, but simply to frighten the nations round the South China Sea, and continue to prop up the regime of Fat Boy Kim.

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