Chinese Nimitz Class Carrier

[Perknose]

Concrete proof of China's naval ambitions.

 

[irishScott]

They can have all the ambition they like. They're years away from a single out-dated carrier, and at least decades away from anything remotely resembling the US fleet. That's assuming their economy doesn't go down the tubes in the meantime.

 

[Raduque]

That's not Chinese, it's Amarrian.

 

[darkswordsman17]

That's actually a kinda interesting idea, although I would think if they wanted to turn it into sorta mall or whatever where they sell business spaces, it'd make more sense to model it after a cruise ship or historic ship like the Titanic (whatever happened to the thing about that replica Titanic?).

 

[Printer Bandit]

aircraft carriers are dumb, big targets. how is it protected from someone dropping a bomb from high up in the air?

 

[TurtleCrusher]

aircraft carriers are dumb, big targets. how is it protected from someone dropping a bomb from high up in the air?

I dont expect you to understand, but theres at least 10 ships surrounding it, an unknown amount of subs, and several planes following and leading at any given time.

Any bomber going towards it is getting picked off on 8+ radars and is royally getting fucked up.

 

[EliteRetard]

aircraft carriers are dumb, big targets. how is it protected from someone dropping a bomb from high up in the air?

I have family that has served on board air craft carriers, they are not the giant immobile targets many perceive. Accurately dropping high altitude ordnance would not be easy, even if the carrier had no weapons or support.

 

[StrangerGuy]

aircraft carriers are dumb, big targets. how is it protected from someone dropping a bomb from high up in the air?

Nah, they are invulnerable. They have escorts with anti-X defenses won't fail, run out of ammo or simply make false assumptions on how an enemy would fight.

 

[Printer Bandit]

http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2010-01/fortress-sea-carrier-invulnerability-myth

 

[EliteRetard]

Anybody who thinks a carrier is invulnerable is also a fool.

 

[TridenT]

Am I the only one who noticed the weird shoe in the first photo? Wtf?

 

[EliteRetard]

Am I the only one who noticed the weird shoe in the first photo? Wtf?

Nothing weird about it.

 

[TridenT]

Nothing weird about it.

Except the part that covers your heel is completely missing... I've never seen a dress shoe like that and find that would make that shoe fly the fuck off all the time. (Dress socks + slick insides = it's gonna fly)

 

[EliteRetard]

Except the part that covers your heel is completely missing... I've never seen a dress shoe like that and find that would make that shoe fly the fuck off all the time. (Dress socks + slick insides = it's gonna fly)

You've never left America have you?
Or even shopped outside of Walmart for that matter.

 

[TridenT]

You've never left America have you?
Or even shopped outside of Walmart for that matter.

They look stupid and seem very impractical. I don't need to have left America or shopped out of Walmart to know that.

 

[EliteRetard]

They look stupid and seem very impractical. I don't need to have left America or shopped out of Walmart to know that.

...

 

[mnewsham]

aircraft carriers are dumb, big targets. how is it protected from someone dropping a bomb from high up in the air?

Carriers operate primarily in carrier strike groups or CSG, for example the US deployed CSG-5 to the Philippines to help with the relief effort, CSG-5 consists of 1 Nimitz-class supercarrier, 2 Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers, 7 Arleigh-Burke class destroyers, 4 Strike Fighter Squadrons, 1 Electronic Attack Squadron, 1 Airborne Early Warning Squadron, 1 Fleet Logistics Support Squadron, 2 Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadrons, and 1 Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron.

Something tells me that the carrier is fairly safe...

 

[olds]

30 minutes later, they had to build another one.

 

[notposting]

I can tell no one (oops, except for darkswordsman) even clicked on the link or had a moment of thought with "concrete" in the title....

 

[PottedMeat]

I can tell no one (oops, except for darkswordsman) even clicked on the link or had a moment of thought with "concrete" in the title....

hehe "LOL DIDN'T READ"

China and India might be buying weapons like Americans are buying discounted Nintendos

uh no we're not




fabulous!

 

[IronWing]

Perk, is there some type of rule of the internet that has been demonstrated in this thread?

 

[Perknose]

Perk, is there some type of rule of the internet that has been demonstrated in this thread?

I could float some suppositions, which might pave the way to an answer, but I have a sinking feeling that the posters in question missed the total lack of even macadam-based airplanes desperately trying to get airborne.

 

[Ophir]

You've never left America have you?
Or even shopped outside of Walmart for that matter.

Don't know about you, but I never leave home without my dress clogs.

 

[EagleKeeper]

I could float some suppositions, which might pave the way to an answer, but I have a sinking feeling that the posters in question missed the total lack of even macadam-based airplanes desperately trying to get airborne.

Those Stealth planes are in the shape of seagulls defending the ADIZ()

 

[Bartman39]

Prettiest concrete block I have ever seen...

The project started in 2005 but ran out of money in less than a year. The unfinished hull stayed empty until 2008, when a restaurant and bar opened on the upper deck. Things were looking bright for a short period, but the businesses closed down eventually due to high costs and safety concerns about sitting on top of an unfinished concrete structure.
Still, at least some people seemed to like it.