In article t,
Tank Fixer wrote:

In article ,
on Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:04:20 GMT,
Chad Irby attempted to say .....

In article ,
"Doug \"Woody\" and Erin Beal" wrote:

On 2/22/04 5:18 PM, in article ,
"R. David Steele" wrote:

China has let it be known, there
are a number of papers coming out of their post graduate officers
school, that they plan to challenge us for control of the far
east. That means control over India, most of SE Asia (down to
Australia), Japan, the Philippines and Siberia.

Papers out of PG schools and war colleges are strictly academic
exercises--on both sides. Contingency plans are, well... contingencies.

Yeah, but suddenly deciding to build up to four aircraft carriers on a
rush program is a bit, well, *interesting*...

They won't have operational CV's and airwings for 20 years.

Only if they're following the US model. You should know that they've
been having their pilots practice carrier landings on mockups on ground,
for example. If they're going up against anyone but the US, all they
have to do is be able to do fair-weather ops.

With a couple of wings of moderately-new knockoffs of some of the
Russian planes, they'd go from no real naval air to the second or third
biggest carrier-borne air capability in just a few years.

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