July 12, 2020
Why Did China's Navy Cancel Two of Its New Super Aircraft Carriers?
Here's the story.
by Sebastien Roblin
Key Point: For over a decade, China has been steadily building up plans to deploy six aircraft carriers of progressively greater capability.
China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy takes many of its cues from the U.S. Navy as it develops its carrier aviation branch. It is seeking similar flat-deck carriers to its U.S. counterpart, and has developed airborne early warning planes and electronic attack jets comparable to American E-2D Hawkeyes and EA-18 Growlers.
But that tendency may have backfired for once. That’s because the U.S. Navy has been beset by major cost overruns and delays in deploying its new generation Gerald Ford-class supercarriers due to persistent flaws in their catapults, arresting gear, radars and weapons elevators. You can read more about these many problems in an earlier article.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/why-did-chinas-navy-cancel-two-its-new-super-aircraft-carriers-164493
