Chinese media reports of plans to build a 110,000 ton 'super aircraft carrier' to rival US navy

[Major Shaitan Singh]

CHINA has declared it is building a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of a size to rival the biggest in United States naval service in the first move of a major new arms race.

Chinese website qianzhan.com cites "top People's Liberation Army" sources as saying the 110,000-ton aircraft carrier should be launched by 2020.

"By that time, China will be able to confront the most advanced US carrier-based fighter jets in high sea,"the Chinese-language article reads.

The news follows rising tensions in the South and East China Seas where the most recent incident involved a near-collision with a US cruiser shadowing China's first aircraft carrier, the refurbished Liaoning which was purchased from Ukraine.

Pride of the fleet ... Crew stand on-board China's aircraft carrier "Liaoning" in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province. (AP /Xinhua, Zha Chunming)Source:AP

China's first homegrown aircraft carrier will be a larger version of Liaoning. The first of two such vessels is due to hit the water in 2015.

The design is reportedly based on drawings from the former Soviet Union of a nuclear-powered, 80,000 ton vessel capable of carrying 60 aircraft.

"Despite their lack of experience, Chinese scientific research personnel have the ambition to overcome various difficulties to master lots of new technologies and techniques in building China's own powerful aircraft carrier," the article reads.

America’s latest aircraft carrier, the USS Ford, undergoes final construction work before entering service earlier this year.Source:Supplied

 

[xuxu1457]

Fake news for many years

 

[Mr.Nair]

No body can rival for another 50 years with US militarily.Period

 

[Beidou2020]

No body can rival for another 50 years with US militarily.Period

India has plans to do it by 2030.

 

[masud]

 

[Beidou2020]

China is building 2 carriers.

 

[jhungary]

Did anyone remind the dude who wrote that post the US have 10 (Will soon be 11) 110,000 ton carrier? and 9 50,000 ton carrier?

Building even 2 will not even make a dent to the USN, let alone "By that time, China will be able to confront the most advanced US carrier-based fighter jets in high sea" like the article suggest

 

[Beidou2020]

China will build 8-10 nuclear aircraft carriers with EMALS that will be 100,000 tons each.

 

[UKBengali]

Did anyone remind the dude who wrote that post the US have 10 (Will soon be 11) 110,000 ton carrier? and 9 50,000 ton carrier?

Building even 2 will not even make a dent to the USN, let alone "By that time, China will be able to confront the most advanced US carrier-based fighter jets in high sea" like the article suggest

Who gives a rats when soon the Chinese economy will
dwarf the US.

Economic Power equals military power.

 

[jhungary]

Who gives a rats when soon the Chinese economy will
dwarf the US.

Economic Power equals military power.

If that true, then Japan would have been MEGA SUPER POWER since 1980s....

China will build 8-10 nuclear aircraft carriers with EMALS that will be 100,000 tons each.

And where do you put them? In the Gobi Desert?

 

[pzkilo]

fake news.

 

[UKBengali]

If that true, then Japan would have been MEGA SUPER POWER since 1980s....

Two things:

Japan GDP was never more than 2/3rds of US even at nominal - it was less at PPP.

Japan was restricted by the US and so never created the whole range of military technologies.

China by 2030 will have a GDP at least twice the size of the US in real terms - US days are numbered.

 

[Deino]

Tread closed due to false report ....