4/26/2013 Naval Interest
Up Date; 1/3/2015

China's Navy Says It Plans For More Aircraft Carriers That Will Be Larger Than The Current One

 We found the articles linked below and wanted to bring them to our readers attention:

Photo from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_aircraft_carrier_ex-Varyag
This is the Russian VARYAG under tow in 2001. The refurbished VARYAG is now the Chinese LIAONING 

One point that we always keep in mind is that China first has to learn to operate the one aircraft carrier that they have before it can be effectively deployed or before they can build their intended fleet of air craft carriers. Carrier "battles" tend to be conducted by their air wings. No one has the combat experience or training system that the U.S. air wings have. When you are being pressured by the Wizard of OZ it pays to look behind the curtain.

Editor's Note 1/3/2015 We've now had over a year and half of observation of China's progress in learning to operate their one carrier. Frankly while progress has been visible it has not been extensive or rapid. Their one carrier is presently far from combat ready in terms of any real carrier on carrier engagements with experienced operators. Even if China rushes the numbers game by bringing more carriers on line before being truly ready to operate them effectively we feel they are years away from being remotely capable of their intended goal of pushing the U.S. Pacific Fleet back to Pearl Harbor. The greatest danger to the capabilities of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in the near term is the Congress of the United States and the White House where honorable discharges and any real knowledge of our national defense needs are scarce as hen's teeth. What's important here at the moment isn't the daily progress of the Chinese at either carrier operational capability, or carrier building, but the daily shrinkage of the U.S. Navy at the hands of our own incompetent or worse government. 

Published April 24, 2013

Associated Press

BEIJING –  A top navy commander says China plans to operate more aircraft carriers in the future that will be even larger and carry more aircraft than the initial one launched last year.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/04/24/china-navy-says-it-plans-for-more-aircraft-carriers-that-will-be-larger-than/#ixzz2RUYgvZl1

Then we found this from the CHINA DAILY:

Nation sets sights on bigger carrier

China's second aircraft carrier will be bigger than the current one, and more aircraft carriers may be built to safeguard the nation's oceanic interests, a senior officer with China's navy forces said.

"The next aircraft carrier we need will be larger and carry more fighters," Song Xue, vice-chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army navy, said on Tuesday in Beijing at a ceremony to markthe 64th anniversary of the founding of the PLA navy, according to Xinhua News Agency.

He denied foreign media reports that China is building new aircraft carriers in Shanghai and promised the navy will invite foreign military attaches to visit the Liaoning, China's only aircraft carrier.

Liaoning was refitted based on a Russian-made unfinished carrier and delivered to the navy inSeptember. It has a full displacement of more than 50,000 metric tons.

China, with a coastline extending 18,000 km and oceanic territories covering 3 million sq km, is the last one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to have an aircraft 
carrier.

"One aircraft carrier is far from enough for China's navy," said Quan Linyuan, a professor at the PLA's National Defense University. "To meet the needs of the navy, five to seven aircraft carriers are needed."

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-04/25/content_16447127.htm


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