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Chinese Carrier

When has a carrier ever been used purely defensively?
 
You guys answered my point for me. Since the mid-1940s, carriers have been used for offensive operations. To argue that a Chinese flattop is for research/training or defense is a bit stretching it. What does you guys think? Regional hegemon?
 
Purchased from Ukraine in 1998...

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kmac said:
You guys answered my point for me. Since the mid-1940s, carriers have been used for offensive operations. To argue that a Chinese flattop is for research/training or defense is a bit stretching it. What does you guys think? Regional hegemon?
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I think their "research/training" party line is something like ours when we say that an aircraft was involved in a "routine training flight" when some incident occurs. It's not meant as an obfuscatory statement of the vessel's purpose.

Brett
 
I think it probably is for 'research/training', in these sense that the PLAN is going to use it to work out their doctrine and procedures and as a testbed for indigineously built boats, as opposed to a full-on power projection asset.
 
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