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"If all [China] wanted to do was protect [its] coastline, which is what they did for a long time, they wouldn't need aircraft carriers.
He predicted that the US would see Chinese carriers operating off the coasts of California and Mexico within a decade.
Russia's only aging aircraft carrier, the Adm. Kuznetsov, has been in service-life-extension overhaul since 2017.
"Aircraft carriers exist because airplanes are useful.
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