分析：美航母游弋南海中国军舰形影不离

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BBC Chinese, Nov 7, 2013
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chin ... ngton_carrier.shtml

, which is based on

Greg Torode, Off China's Coast, US Carrier Displays Teeth Behind the Pivot. Reuters, Nov 7, 2013 (10 hours ago)
www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/ ... USBRE9A60NC20131107
("China's first domestically built carriers are not expected to be completed before 2020, according to military analysts")


(2) Warship for sale - Britain seeks buyer for old aircraft carrier. Reuters, Oct 15, 2013
http://uk.reuters.com/article/20 ... UKBRE99E0K820131015
("Bidders [of HMS Illustrious, Britain's "sole remaining aircraft carrier"] do not need to be British but the buyer has to keep all or part of the ship in Britain for heritage purposes, a Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said on Tuesday. It did not define how big a "part" of the ship must be. The Royal Navy's treatment of Illustrious contrasts with that of the ship's sister carriers, the HMS Ark Royal and HMS Invincible, which were auctioned off in 2011 and later sold for scrap")

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest.
(b) HMS Illustrious (R06)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Illustrious_(R06)
(Commissioned 1982)
is to be decommissioned next year (2014), when UK will have no aircraft carrier until the end of the decade..

Invincible, Illustrious and Ark Royal (decommissioned 2011)--in the order they were built--were all Invincible-class aircraft carriers.