Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "The Deck of Fujian Aircraft Carrier Cracked? Google Earth Caught It!China VS US Aircraft Carrier" video.

Fleet carriers are extremely powerful warships able to both defend the fleet and effect long range attack on mutiple targets and to establish air superiority in their area of the sea. They are the modern surface capital warships of any sizeable navy. However, they do requite dedicated and well trained veteran crews (both sailors and naval fleet air personnel) for any one ship to be combat effective, and as this video pointed out, carriers have lot of complex systems to operate at any one time. Any officer or serviceperson corruption, particularly in the carrier group, severely undermines their operational capabilities. The fact that the PLAN carriers are not out and training may be indicative of the PLAN unpreparedness for a naval war or amphibious operations against a first rate opponent in the near to medium future.
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The PLAN were pumping out surface warships, particularly frigates and destroyers, but the weapon systems aboard these ships are not tested under combat conditions, except low intensity in the South China Sea and the Senkaku Islands, and the crews are pretty green as well, undertrained with corruption issues. Futhermore, their combat systems requires advanced chips which they can no longer source from other countries, such as Taiwan, making future ship building just churning out defenceless hulls and superstructure. This is the surface fleet division of the PLAN that is of most concern to opposing navies, because of it's size, not their carrier strike group which would be less capable than the UK RN or the self defence navy of Japan carrier forces,
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