Wuhan appeared in a giant cement vessels, which is China’s desire to move rapidly to the carrier’s latest sign of a comprehensive construction plan. Wuhan ship “aircraft carrier” will not be launched. But the next day, China’s first domestically produced aircraft carrier will be routed out of a Shanghai Changxing shipyard, equipped with jet fighters, in support of the most advanced warships and submarines sailed under the protection of the Pacific Ocean.
The scene in the region when the arrival of foreign military experts and scholars increasingly pay attention to. They believe a series of technical problems still exist. No. 1 domestic carrier serving five years, the forecast is full of variables.
This month, officials announced a Shipbuilding Research Institute, Beijing plans to build a new generation of large destroyers and aircraft carrier programs that will provide very important support, while the carrier plans to make China a true blue-water navy key.
Alleged that the aircraft carrier to support ship construction work has already begun. The Pentagon notes that China-made aircraft carrier equipped with a full built in 2015 can not be good, but Beijing is planning to build more than 2020 carrier.
London’s International Institute for Strategic Studies The Chinese military expert Gary Lee said, “We see China is a systematic and comprehensive manner the required infrastructure and technology together. When will be able to see the first one fully equipped to support aircraft carrier in place the water is difficult to determine, because it forces even the mature and also very difficult, but many cutting-edge work is being carried out. There are a lot of technical bottleneck in front. ”
Chinese Ministry of National Defense made it clear that Beijing’s intentions, saying that “the aircraft carrier is the performance of a country’s comprehensive national strength, but also a country specific requirements of naval power.”
At least in the initial stage, China will certainly use a foreign carrier-based aircraft. In 2006, the purchase of Soviet-made aircraft carrier fighter found in the Russian media, the negotiations. The negotiations continue to complain that Chinese piracy because of Moscow’s military technology and twists and turns. But Asian diplomats believe that negotiations are still ongoing, although there may be strategic considerations in Moscow, but still eager to aircraft sold to China.
Although China has launched a series of cutting-edge activities, no one believes that it will soon achieve a major breakthrough. The construction and operation of aircraft carrier battle groups representing military, industrial and strategic coordination peak. U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies Pacific Forum president Keluo Fu said that many countries had to eat bitterness know, the aircraft carrier program is actually much more to be tough, “China’s roads will be very long and very difficult.”
This there is a consensus in Washington. Pacific Fleet Commander Keating said: “If they (China) to build an aircraft carrier that we know will take a very long time, difficult to think of much more than it is now.”
