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after naval enthusiasts commented in replies at Length and noted that China is not building any carrier groups I am revising downward my belief that power projection has anything to do with this so combination of area denial + giant empty city-style investment more likely? idk
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Navy nerds strike back https://twitter.com/halvorz/status/1306650713817255936?s=19 …
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oh hmm that is quite a builduppic.twitter.com/Hh2Vof259c
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wait did any of those actually get built India still has one iirc and Japan . . . just got one?
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to a good approximation, only the US has aircraft carriers a few other countries have a handful as prestige items, but if you look at their days-at-sea-per-year they're ... uh also, ability to sustain flight operations is likewise ... uh Did a deep dive on this a few yrs back
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_service … CATOBAR is the only ** REAL ** type of A.C. STOBAR is second tier maintaining a real AC is actually an INSANELY HARD thing, it requires a MASSIVE pyramid of cultural and economic competence
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to put on AC in the field with 1,000 sailers you need a service academy, a massive training infrastructure, etc that runs to 10,000 or 50,000 people, then you need a logistics supply chain, all sorts of mil repair shops so that broken components (and things break CONTINUOUSLY)
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can be removed from the ship / the planes, replaced with spares from on-ship stores, handed off to ferry ships which run broken parts back, immediately refill on-ship stores with new spares that were already in the pipelines, ferries bring broken back to labs where >
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things are analyzed and swapped out at sub-assembly level (perhaps one whole avionics cage got shipped back, it's opened up and 2 boards are pulled and replaced). Assembly rotated back towards the A.C. while the sub assemblies are further diagnosed
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and you need an entire culture of truth-tellers not yes-men to investigate WHY components failed, and revision the boards or systems or whatever The US invented aircraft carriers in 1930 or so and has a century's worth of experience. Starting from scratch it might take >>>
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30 years, absolute best case, to catch up with us?
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Way off topic but I'm instantly reminded of your theory that boomers had it harder because they had to start from scratch, where Millennials have it easier because the groundwork has been laid already. I'll show myself the door.
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