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Ah! China now has the allegedly largest Navy in the world. It comes under the heading of Peoples Liberation Army Navy. China doesn’t seem to be able to separate its Army from its Navy, so if you’re confused about an Army Navy.<\/p>\n
However, in view of the fact that we don\u2019t build crappy fleet ships and ours have a history of lasting through real warfare and having long lifespans, it might be appropriate to stick our oar into this, for a good reason.<\/p>\n
Y\u2019see, back in 2019, a Chinese admiral bragged to a live audience about how easy it would be to sink a US Navy aircraft carrier. But this isn\u2019t new stuff.\u00a0 Rear Admiral Lou Yuan told an audience in Shenzhen that \u201cwhat the United States fears the most is taking casualties\u201d before declaring that destroying one of its supercarriers would kill 5,000 navy personnel. Bragging about China\u2019s anti-ship missile capabilities, Lou added that sinking two carriers would double that figure, the New York-based Epoch Times reports. He told a top military summit: \u201cWe\u2019ll see how frightened America is.\u201d Yeah, right.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/news\/your-navy\/2019\/01\/04\/well-see-how-frightened-america-is-chinese-admiral-says-sinking-us-carriers-key-to-dominating-south-china-sea\/<\/a><\/p>\n Frankly, it ain\u2019t quite that easy. \u00a0When the Navy wanted to find out what it does take to sink an aircraft carrier, the designated ship for testing was a Kitty Hawk-class carrier, USS America. https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/22639\/this-is-the-only-photo-of-a-u-s-navy-supercarrier-being-sunk<\/a><\/p>\n And I have news for that Chinese Army Navy Admiral, and his boss. and their ilk: when USS America was decommissioned and sent into a \u201csink the ship\u201d test, she had to be scuttled because the old girl refused to sink despite heavy bombardment from our own people.<\/p>\n If we had trouble sinking one of our own and she finally had to be scuttled by demolition teams, then what makes Those People think it\u2019s easy to sink one of our flattops or any other USNAV ship? \u00a0https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/reboot\/just-how-hard-it-sink-aircraft-carrier-166482<\/a><\/p>\n To quote the National Interest article: “America<\/em> stood up to four weeks of abuse and only succumbed to the sea after demolition teams scuttled the ship on purpose.” – article<\/p>\n The objective was to find out what it really does take to sink one of those big ships of ours, as a means of improving the unsinkable ships in the supercarrier class. It seems that we have to do it ourselves.<\/p>\n And then some armaments \u201cexpert\u201d at Forbes<\/em> had to stick his oar into it, too:\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidaxe\/2020\/06\/21\/china-can-sink-american-ships-faster-than-america-can-replace-them\/<\/a><\/p>\n Obviously, we\u2019re doomed, despite considering that China\u2019s \u201cfleet\u201d construction is based on technology that they stole from us over the years. Unfortunately, large numbers don\u2019t mean a whole lot if your Army\u2019s Navy is quantity versus untested quality.<\/p>\n https:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/reboot\/just-how-hard-it-sink-aircraft-carrier-166482<\/a><\/p>\n If you want to know just how tough our ships are, the photo linked is from World War II, a shot of the deck of USS Enterprise being hit by a Japanese kamikaze attack. Couldn\u2019t sink the old girl then, still can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n
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