Secret Chinese Warship Photographed By Denver Satellite Company
Commercial satellite company, DigitalGlobe Inc., announced that it has an image of the People’s Republic of China’s first functional aircraft carrier. The image was taken during the carrier’s first sea trial in the Yellow Sea. The Pentagon did not independently confirm the image’s authenticity, but DigitalGlobe’s Director, Stephen Wood, was confident this was the case due to the carrier’s location.
China insists the aircraft carrier is being developed for research and training, its development raises eyebrows in Washington due to China’s increasingly advanced military and their aggressive posturing towards Taiwan and other areas of the South China Sea.
China has been increasingly aggressive in the pursuit of getting Taiwan to rejoin with mainland China, a move which most Taiwanese people reject. Taiwan has been developing missiles capable of striking an aircraft carrier. China has been slowly rising tensions with Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam and South Korea which all have the explicit backing of American Naval power in the area.
China has defended its carrier program as other countries are far more advanced than them in their development or have just purchased carriers from other governments. Regional rival India purchased US carriers more than a decade ago. While in the future China’s carrier program could be a threat to the United States Naval Power it will be many years before they can pose a significant threat. The US currently has 11 carrier battle groups which stand on the cutting edge of military technology.
Russia started building the carrier before the collapse of the Soviet Union. It called the carrier program the Varyag but never completed its development. China bought the ship from the Ukraine, which had acquired it from Russia in 1998 and spent years building it. The Varyag had no engines, weaponry or navigation systems when China first purchased it.
Do you believe that China’s Carrier program poses a threat to US interests in Asia?
Tags : aircraft carrier, china, denver, people's republic of china, satelite, taiwan, weapons
Posted: December 14, 2011
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Dec 15, 2011
Only if they learn to build them in the ocean, are they a threat:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/16/flying_aircraft_carrier/
Dec 15, 2011
India didn't by an aircraft carrier from the US. The bought it from Russia.
Dec 16, 2011
Will not be able to launch planes for years. Just a big ole boat right now.
Dec 16, 2011
If you spelled Satellite correctly in the title, and the tag, this article would have more impact.
Dec 17, 2011
that article is a fake
Dec 19, 2011
Yes! China is absolutely a threat to world security, and to all national republics. Do not forget they are a Communist nation, one of very few remaining. Their alliance both with North Korea and Iran adds even further instability. WATCH 'em!
Dec 23, 2011
ummm…..i'm pretty sure they did spell it correctly.
Dec 24, 2011
i mean seriously. you're a software engineer, and can't tell that picture is fake?
Dec 24, 2011
Scott Allan Hallinan The article is a fake, the picture isn't. It's really an amusement park, based around an old Australian aircraft carrier. But I thought it made an excellent joke punchline to this utter non-threat. We've got 11 active aircraft carrier groups, this makes three for them.
Feb 27, 2012
and the us is not?
Feb 27, 2012
lukeluzhongyuan NO, the U.S. is not YET a communist state..maybe if Obama gets 4 more years though….