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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
The Chinese could make any US-South Korean invasion of North Korea impossible.
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Could you explain more on this.
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Forget the carriers, the Chinese went the Soviet route. Aerial refueling of naval strike packages. Easier and cheaper than carriers for a naval air arm strike package.
The Soviets certainly did not have carriers to challenge the US carrier force.
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which was what made the soviet the weaker hand in cuban missile crisis and so developed their mini versions of carriers. The soviets were practically ready to leave ocean dominance to US and stop only using the subs.
I guess the soviets could have competed with US in europe, but americas or probably tips of africa were no-gos for their armies.
Aerial refueling means they cant challenge nato in open oceans and basically patrol their coast.