Japan again building aircraft carriers

[ironglow]

 Not super carriers, but carriers none the less.  The Japanese government, alarmed at the aggressive stances of China and North Korea, is changing it's course concerning the defensive/offensive question.

  They have increased their defense budget, to make them the third largest current defense budget in the world..
   ..And they intend to build their military commensurately.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTsiuGcDYlQ

[Lloyd Smale]

we should be following suit and biden should announce today that we are doubling our defense budget. We need to AT LEAST do that or we are just wait for chinese lessons.

[ironglow]

we should be following suit and biden should announce today that we are doubling our defense budget. We need to AT LEAST do that or we are just wait for chinese lessons.

  It seems like the Japanese are reading the Chinese 'tea leaves', far more readily than Biden.

[oldandslow]

Huh, Biden doesn't even know what a tea leaf is now. Someone would have to tell him what they are. The leader of the free world----that doesn't even know where he is or where he going.

[Bob Riebe]

we should be following suit and biden should announce today that we are doubling our defense budget. We need to AT LEAST do that or we are just wait for chinese lessons.

It is not as much the budget as the Buck Rogers crap that is being built only to be part to full failure.

The newest Aircraft Carrier, Destroyer and Littoral Combat Ship are all SERIOUS system failures, to total failure.

The U.S. Navy and its contractors seem to be doing their best to imitate the screw ups the Russian have burdened their military with.

[phalanx]

Do they use that ski jump flight deck? China does.

[ironglow]

Do they use that ski jump flight deck? China does.

 Nope!  The new Japanese aircraft carriers were shown in the video I posted..

[Bob Riebe]

Do they use that ski jump flight deck? China does.

 Nope!  The new Japanese aircraft carriers were shown in the video I posted..

Yup, they are what were called Harrier Carriers, in abstract similar to what Italy and Spain, had or maybe still have.

[ironglow]

Do they use that ski jump flight deck? China does.

 Nope!  The new Japanese aircraft carriers were shown in the video I posted..

Yup, they are what were called Harrier Carriers, in abstract similar to what Italy and Spain, had or maybe still have.

   When my grandson deployed to Iraq, he was aboard the USS Nassau..and assault/attack ship.  Aboard were Sea Stallion and Apache helicopters, along with a group of Harrier VTOL fighters..where I suspect the nick-name "Harrier carrier" comes from.
   The assault/attack ships are ideal for Special operations (MARSOC) troops.. They use the Sea Stallions to rappel from while completing a mission.
  Adding to that, the ship can deploy a huge hovercraft from the rear, for MARSOC/SEAL operations.

[ironglow]

  From what I understand, Japan actually has an "out" for that stipulation. Besides, they are granted a very sizeable defense force... and who is to say whether an aircraft carrier is offensive or defensive?
   I believe the video speaks to that..

  Germany?  I haven't looked it up, but while I was there, the "status oif forces" agreement was dropped, but I don't know if that affected it so much as their emergence into NATO..

  Besides, I suppose it is the UN who is to watch if/how Germany rebuilds...just as it was the purview of the League of Nations to oversee what Germany was doing between WW1 and WW2....and we know how that went!