"South Korea Is Considering The Building Of Large" Topic

…Aircraft Carriers.

"As the security situation in the region erodes, the carrier question becomes more pressing for Seoul.

A senior South Korean lawmaker has said the country should reconsider proposals for acquiring either light or medium aircraft carriers with Catapult Assisted Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery, or CATOBAR, configurations to respond to growing regional security threats. These were alternatives to South Korea's reported decision to purchase a number of large amphibious assault ships capable of supporting fixed-wing short takeoff and vertical landing combat jets, namely the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter. This call for reassessing that choice comes as the South Korean Ministry of Defense may be leaning toward acquiring 20 more conventional F-35A models rather than B variants, further deferring plans to develop a fixed-wing naval aviation capability…"
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Armand

With the success NK has had with their small subs, to me it seems like pure idiocrasy building water based assets that can easily be taken out.

Chest beating – does South Korea have regional or global power projection needs? Not so much.

Glup!….

Amicalement
Armand

Whatever for? Are they planning on fighting Japan? Can't the F-35 land at an airport?

They already have an amphibious assault ship i.e. helicopter carrier. I could see the sense of them having a couple of littoral carrier vessels to act as moveable airfields in case NK goes off the deep end. Ocean going vessels less so – though given China's increasingly belligerent territorial claims in the region I can see why they might consider the idea.

big-deck gator freighters would be useful to repeat Inchon-type landings.