The Real Threat Posed by China's Carrier

With its economy growing, China has been constantly pursuing military modernization. China’s high-tech navy and air force have made neighboring countries nervous through its development of stealth aircraft, augmentation of submarine capacity and improvement of antiship missiles. Recently, Beijing made the test voyage of its Varyag aircraft carrier public and declared the start of the era of the Chinese aircraft carrier.

It is not news that China has had interest in aircraft carriers for a while. It is hard to confirm the carrier’s exact military capacity, but it is presumed that the Varyag has radar equipment, an anti-air missile system and a defense system similar to the Aegis Combat System.