USA vs China Aircraft Carriers | Balance Of Power | Insider

Correction both are "Steam powered" the difference being that the Chinese carrier use oil burners to generate the steam while the U.S use a nuclear reactor. A nuclear reactor does not inherently give you more power, The U.S kitty hawk generated more power from it's oil burners then following Nimitz class did with nuclear reactors. The main benefit of Nuclear power is that you do not need to refuel the ship itself, you still need other supplies like jet fuel regularly but it does reduce the logistics burden which is especially important if you are an expeditionary navy fighting far from your home port. If he is talking about the catapults being steam powered then that is wrong, all the info points to the Fujian using EM catapults like the Ford. The Fujian being 2 generations behind is something most analysts would disagree on, on paper it checks all the boxes with modern GAN AESA radars, EM catapults etc. The lack of Nuclear power would be a major drawback if operated far from China, less so in the likely war scenarios over Taiwan or the south china sea. It is still to early to tell, the ship have not even started sea trials yet and the intended aircraft the J-35 is still in testing and it will be several years before the carrier is fully combat capable but on paper it looks like a modern capable carrier, time will tell how it works out in practice.

US carrier force is a century in the making and maintaining. It went through multiple conflicts and experiences multiple accidents which valuable lessons were learned. A carrier is only as good as what its crew has in experienced.

This "expert" says that their catapults are steam powered? so he couldn't even be bothered to do research for more than 5 minutes? they use EM catapults.

The United States has eleven aircraft carriers. All other navies have no more than three carriers. There's your balance of power - or lack thereof.

I learned a crucial lesson in history of warfare. It is to never underestimate your enemy. Carthage underestimated Rome's navy, Napoleon underestimated Russia, Hitler underestimated Ussr.

It’s is the carriers crew, and air squadrons personnel that makes a successful operational carrier/deployment. Case in point; I served on CV64 (constellation) during the iraq freedom deployment my F-18 squadron (vigilantes) took over other carriers squadrons missions due to aircraft breaking down, we pushed our aircraft to their limits, the constant maintenance kept them all flying, because our sister squadron and marine squadron F-18 were breaking down too, in addition one of the 3 carriers had boiler issues thus affecting its catapult system. CV64 was a diesel power carrier, it was smaller vs the nuclear carriers but it was the fastest, also held the most flight ups in NAVAL Records. The best lesson I learned in my 8 years in the U.S military forces, don’t underestimate adversaries capabilities, we might have better tech, and more advance systems, but over confidence is what affected aviators in Vietnam, thus resulting in the creation of SFTI.

2:19 😮 is.... is that nuclear powered aircraft-carrier drifting like a street race

China didn't steal it but was given the steam catapult technology when the Aussies sold to them the Hmas Melbourne light aircraft carrier for scrap with everything on it removed except the catapault system arresting equipment and mirror landing not removed.

Enjoyed it...thank you for your service

well someone forgot to mention that 20%+ increase in sortie rates for Ford carrier is theoretical. The US Navy itself reports lower sortie rates than the old Nimitz as the "modern" catapult is unreliable and breaks down often. The same issue applies to its new weapons elevator.

Seems like you can fit fewer planes with an upwards sloping runway

Thanks a lot!

American aircraft carriers have 4 acres of flight deck space, very impressive!

Two biggest trade patners tend out to be the two largest military adversaries. Irony in the world is intriguing.

I found that some of the comments are more objective, informative and accurate.

Carrier operations are 90% of the game when it comes to the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers. There's simply no subsitute for the experience that the U.S. has gained over the past century in that area.

Sweet war content... 🤤 I love how war and weapon lobbies and industries so easily normalize killing and conflict. Mankind has advanced so much as a species, greed is like a forgotten anchor slowing our evolution.

You didn't feature the navy of Cuba who has daily landings in Florida.

china definitely has a lot of work to do, but it's a great start, you need to start somewhere, can't just suddenly become great. It's nice to see these progress, US power unchecked for way too long

The fujin is more comparable to the older uss kitty hawk class of aircraft carrier that it is to the gerald r ford class. It is also worth mentioning that china is still yet to deploy any modern carrier based aircraft with its most modern carrier based aircraft being the j-15 ( the Chinese built copy of the Soviet su-33) which is more suited as ground based multi role interceptor than it is a carrier based fighter due to its immense size and weight