However, it filled the view from the rear of the Osprey tilt-rotor that was transporting us there, with its deck crammed with cutting-edge combat aircraft, as we got closer to the USS Carl Vinson. The nuclear-powered Carl Vinson is one of the biggest warships ever constructed, weighing close to 90,000 tons and measuring more than 300 meters in length.
It is a spine-tingling experience to watch its FA18 and F35 fighter jets being launched into the air every minute or two by the carrier’s steam catapults, a process that the crew on the packed deck handles with remarkable poise.
Everything else did not slow them down, even though we were soaked by an untimely Pacific squall.
Despite years of swift improvements in China’s military prowess,.
