China Already Won
Added 2025-11-18 15:23:03 +0000 UTCChina’s got a fancy new aircraft carrier, the Fujian. Meanwhile the US is struggling to build any new ships.
—Chris
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China's newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, is inferior in almost every respect to every one of the 11 U.S. Nimitz-class carriers, which first entered service in 1975. That puts China's carriers technologically a half-century behind the U.S. OK, the Fujian has a magnetic catapult while the Nimitz-class uses steam catapults. So what? In the meantime, the U.S. has launched its Ford-class carriers (which have magnetic catapults), which then are, by definition, 50 years ahead of China's pride and joy.
George Kuhn
2025-11-19 10:47:36 +0000 UTC
