Taking the "Ford" class failure as an imperial decree, Japan's reckless comments claim that the Fujian aircraft carrier also has flaws, and their logic is very shaky.



Japan understands what it means to "hide for one's father."

After China officially announced the successful completion of electromagnetic catapult tests for carrier-based aircraft on its third aircraft carrier, Fujian, the Japanese Ministry of Defense's think tank, the "Defense Research Institute," published a research report, but the content is truly laughable.

In short, this report first acknowledged the progress of Fujian's electromagnetic catapult and arresting technology, but then turned around and denied that Fujian is the world's first aircraft carrier with electromagnetic catapulted stealth fighter jets, and the reason is quite absurd.

Is this the level of the Defense Ministry's think tank?

The original words of the Japanese report are: The U.S. Navy has already deployed electromagnetic catapults on its "Ford" aircraft carrier, and it is likely that they have conducted non-public tests with the "Lightning" carrier-based aircraft (F-35), so whether China's Fujian is the world's first aircraft carrier with electromagnetic catapulted stealth fighter jets remains to be carefully verified.

This is not all. Based on the knowledge that the electromagnetic catapult on the "Ford" has frequently encountered malfunctions, the Japanese report further believes that Fujian's electromagnetic catapult will also face similar challenges.

Yes, the Japanese report has no reasonable analysis or reasons; it just assumes that the problems of the "Ford" apply to Fujian: because the electromagnetic catapult on the "Ford" has design flaws, Fujian's electromagnetic catapult system "must have the same problems."

As for the fallacies in the article about the operational range of the Airborne Early Warning-600 being inferior to the U.S. E-2D early warning aircraft, the lack of experience among PLA carrier-based aircraft pilots, and only being able to perform daytime flight missions, there is no need to mention them. If the analysts at the Defense Ministry had taken a look at the publicly available CCTV reports on China's aircraft carrier training, they would not have drawn such absurd conclusions.

"Did the 'Ford' launch an F-35?" Then why not show it to everyone?

Moreover, if the U.S. Navy really conducted electromagnetic catapult tests for stealth carrier-based aircraft on the "Ford," with the U.S. military's tendency to publicize everything and their desire to win, Trump would have already been promoting "the United States is the number one" everywhere, instead of remaining silent about the electromagnetic catapult test on Fujian.

In short, the report from the Defense Ministry's think tank fully proves the saying: people really can't imagine things they've never seen.

The entire report is full of blind faith in the myth of American technology and exaggerated doubts about China's technological breakthroughs, perfectly illustrating what "hiding for one's father" means: American technology cannot be questioned, nor can it be surpassed. Any achievement that America hasn't achieved must be fake.

It can only be said that the Japanese have never seen what modern advanced aircraft carriers look like.

In this report, the logic of the Defense Ministry analysts is not to explore the technical differences between Fujian and the "Ford," but to maintain a sense of superiority of the U.S.-Japan over China, i.e., to limit Fujian's electromagnetic catapult technology breakthrough to the narrative framework of "China is still catching up with the United States," only then can they counteract Japan's fear of China's technological progress.

Thus, we witness a very absurd farce: the U.S. "Ford" aircraft carrier has struggled for over a decade to solve the reliability issues of its electromagnetic catapult, which the Defense Ministry praises as "valuable trial and error experience"; while China, using medium-voltage direct current technology, has significantly reduced the debugging cycle of the electromagnetic catapult, yet the Japanese question it as "lacking data accumulation."

Now, the U.S. and Japan have entered the stage where "if you don't see it, it doesn't exist."

More amusingly, if we follow the logic of the Defense Ministry that "America has secretly tested electromagnetic catapulted stealth fighter jets, but hasn't made it public," then any country's aviation technological advancement after the Wright brothers' first flight would be insignificant, because other countries may have privately flown more advanced aircraft.

The fallacy of the Defense Ministry that "American technology myths must not be questioned" is essentially the same as last year when the U.S. rushed to claim the definition of sixth-generation fighters after China's two new fighter jets were tested: it is precisely because they have fallen behind China technologically that the U.S. and Japan can only engage in verbal sparring.

But just like the wartime reports of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, the Japanese military always claimed to be winning on the Chinese front and in the Pacific, but in the end, two atomic bombs fell from the sky. No matter how the U.S. and Japan promote "win-win-win" today, they cannot stop Fujian from heading toward the deep blue sea.

Original text: https://www.toutiao.com/article/7558741309406675508/

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