Talk:General Discussion/@comment-25196231-20141007225120/@comment-24332640-20141008062017

Besides which, no other country has anything that even comes close to the US Nimitz class (and upcoming Gerald Ford class) carriers. China has a single active carrier based on an old unfinished Soviet design that got sold to China after the Soviet Union collapsed. It's half the size of a Nimitz, uses conventional (not nuclear) power, and the US has ten Nimitz-class carriers in service.

Take a look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_service#Commissioned_carriers

It's so one-sided it's kind of ridiculous...the US spends a ridiculous amount of money on military hardware in general but nowhere is that more obvious than in the navy.