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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Honing my diversionary skills... When speaking of the Yellow Threat, Wraith mentioned the Chinese don't have any carriers. From a point of view, they do. They have been in the business of buying carriers for a long time - beginning with the old HMAS Melbourne, then moving on to the Minsk and now the Varyag (or whatever he was last named before being stricken from Ukrainan naval strength). They even tried buying the Clemenceau from the French. Admittedly, all these ships have been bought as scrap, and in practice aren't operational. But they are nice study material if you want to learn how to build an operational carrier. Which reminds me of my favorite naval tall tale: the Indian carrier Vikrant, which was actually two ships. First purchased as the ex-HMS Hercules, the ship was rumoredly clandestinely swapped at sea with the ex-HMCS Bonaventure when the latter was sent to Japan for scrapping. It seems the Vikrant was the ship that actually ended up being scrapped, while the somewhat more modern Bonaventure went to active service in the Indian navy under the name Vikrant... All official documentation denies this, but the ship that was cut to pieces in Japan did look more like the Hercules than the Bonaventure. If you can smuggle a friggin' *aircraft carrier* without anybody noticing this for years, I guess it's pretty hopeless to try and ban any military technology of smaller dimensions... For all we know, China could have a huge ex-Russian SSBN fleet or something. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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