“multi-purpose operational mother ship”
Pacific war 2
Jeremiah Sanders
Caleb Watson
Irrelevant because of nukes, like most of this stuff.
Jeremiah Davis
I'm at a loss as to what you're implying.
Kayden Garcia
Leo Bailey
Did they redesignate it?
Joshua Wood
Just a pacific thread. The Japanese seem reluctant to officially rearm.
Meanwhile the Chinese are gobbling up anything they can get.
The aussies are catching on though.
Justin Taylor
They don’t want to call it a aircraft carrier.
Oliver Harris
The flips are finally catching on too.
Robert Brown
I thought it was just "helicopter destroyer"
Eli Cruz
they legally cannot call it an aircraft carrier until they amend their constitution
Andrew Collins
They’re fitting it out to operate F-35s
But it’s still not a “aircraft” carrier.
Matthew Foster
Japan is one big unsinkable carrier. A lot of their destroyer-type ships are for anti-sub work, so they called their biggest anti-sub ship a destroyer. It's retarded, but doctrine-wise they are supposed to be used like that. Adding F-35s was also something they had in mind, but politics meant they had to keep quiet for a while. Still, if it came down to it, they could just fly F-35s off their land bases no problem.
Jonathan Diaz
What the actual fuck is up with the aircraft elevator's placement-shouldn't it be behind the island?
Cameron Taylor
>chinese aircraft carrier chowhall is decorated like a no shit chinese buffet hall youd fine in any state.
whats the japaneses chow hall look like and what do they serve?
Oliver Lopez
>aussies are catching on
arent they having issues with chicoms buying up all their lands and companies?
Angel Phillips
>unsinkable
not with that attitude anyways
Caleb Cruz
I can hardly call buying old Coast Guard cutters as "catching up". Aren't they supposed to buy a corvette within the 2017-2019 timeframe?
Wyatt Anderson
How long could the JSDF last against China?
Juan Miller
CONSTRUCTION COMPLETET
UNIT READY
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UNIT READY
Hudson Perez
Are deck-edge elevators not a thing anymore?
They're just better for literally everything...
Julian Price
At the moment? Indefinitely.
The Chinese don't have the logistics and force projection to take the Japanese home islands, though they could probably bounce them off of some of the smaller ones.
Of course the Burgerclaps presence makes it all redundant anyways.
Lincoln Lee
If they had planes taking off normally they would have went with them, But since this thing just Launches Helicopters it wasn't seen as needed.
Luke Wood
It’s better than having no navy which was what they had. That acquisition was a few years ago. Theyre in the market to buy new ships.
Blake Scott
No need for the Chinese to take Japan. Japan is 1000% dependent on sea-trade and resource supplies, as well as unable to feed itself without outside agricultural imports.
China's most likely action would be heavy offensive mining around Japan's ports and naval blockade.
Japan wouldnt be able to hold out for long, as the JMSDF has already fallen behind China's PLAN in combat power.
Gavin Hall
No problem!
Leo Sanders
I think they would have to stretch their line paper thin to enforce any kind of blockade on Japan.
Japan isn't a little speck, by island standards its huge, and the Chinese would be facing a home field advantage
Logan Phillips
But it makes refits and material loading/offloading easier, and leaves more room for hangar space
why would they not?
Dylan Bailey
Wrong.
Jaxon Gomez
did you know the USA is building ships faster and more of them?
Zachary Gomez
Japan is an unsinkable carrier. But what is unsinkable is also immobile.
Carter Martinez
It's getting better, but unfortunately sneaky chicoms have already done a lot of damage (They have a 90~ year lease on the port of Darwin). Foreign interference laws are being passed around though and the Chinese are getting very upset.
Gabriel Nelson
>What the actual fuck is up with the aircraft elevator's placement-shouldn't it be behind the island?
Why do you think that, user?
Logan Clark
See deck-edge elevators are better in almost every way, and since they can't be forward of the island on LHAs/LHDs (because that's usually the queue for launch/takeoff and/or the CIWS installation) the obvious optimal option is on the edge behind the superstructure...
Logan Evans
I heard that Japan has enough rice to feed its own population two times over.
Landon Hall
Something tells me that the Japanese would dominate the air war. Quantum J-20s or not.
Zachary White
Anthony Foster
Because Chinese technology is Quangtung™ based. Meaning, it exist in between reality and fiction until you open the Aliexpress box and inevitable collapse the hype-waveform to the mediocre reality.
Zachary Howard
Factually incorrect