TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) - China sent its first aircraft carrier into formal service on Tuesday amid a tense maritime dispute with Japan in a show of force that could worry its neighbors.
"Could worry its neighbors"? Seriously? COULD worry?
I very much suspect that the entire point is to make them worry...
For those of you saying, "Well, yeah, but they don't have any planes that are capable of landing on the thing, so it's really not that big a threat", I have one word:
Helicopters.
It's a pretty dang big ship. Cram it to the gills with army/marines, and you've got a rough-and-ready helo carrier, perfect for amphibious assault ops... like, f'rinstance, taking control of a contested set of islands.
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