spazsinbad wrote:I like your crystal balling "...there seems to be absolutely nothing..." so your claim is not correct - there is something....
Yes, I have no problem at all admitting that I was wrong and that I chose by words poorly (and forgot about the
potential plans for China and India to acquire CATOBAR carriers).
spazsinbad wrote:How do you see India being interested in EMALS - is that just for YUCKS? Chinese develop their own version? YUCK YUCK?
I see it as an
intention or
potential plan only.
A plan that (IMO) might never become a reality, something akin to what your country (Australia) did in the 1980's when it
planned to purchase one of the Invincible carriers (HMS Invincible) and Sea Harriers but it never happened. And I believe that this plan was further ahead than currently this India and China plan to build/acquire CATOBAR carriers is.
Or something akin to the current Brazilian "plan" which plans to purchase a (fixed-wing aircraft) carrier in the future - not going to happen, LOL. Although I admit that the odds for India or China to acquire/build a CATOBAR carrier are quite bigger than Brazil getting any (fixed-wing aircraft) carrier at all.
Anyway, the reason for my "crystal balling" above is that neither China or India have unlimited resources (just like any other nation) and they also have to spend massive amounts of resources on other military equipment as well so if they managed to be successful with the STOBAR carriers that they are currently building plus the its associated aircraft (in which they are still years away from being operational with the need to perform lots of testing) and if they plan to build further carriers, I strongly believe/bet/Crystal ball that those will also be STOBAR carriers as well (despite the current plan indicating they could be CATOBAR).
In any case, all of this was because of marsavian's post/question about the F-35C ending up being operated by a single country only (USA) and my opinion/answer here remains the same even because if my "crystal balling" above ends up being wrong than I can hardly imagine either India and much less China to acquire F-35Cs for their carriers. At least we could somehow agree on this, no?