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Old 29th Nov 2011, 08:15
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Heathrow Harry
 
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the Chinese have been trying to build a carrier for 3 decades and haven't even managed to refit the old "Varyag". They lack the ships to form a Battle Group and at the rate they are building its unlikely they'll have enough by 2020

A single Chinese carrier is only useful IF the USN aren't on the scene and you can go and make threatening noises in the S China Sea and hope someone hasn't reversed engineered your own anti ship missiles or bought something from Moscow
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