As we discussed many times over - you can make a cheap, fully capable carrier, if that's the goal ...Well, a cheap box can become a good cheap box if the box can be utilized to its better (if not best) potential.
Besides, the 075 LHD is also easier and cheaper to procure, plus can be built faster than 076 LHD for obvious reasons should the push come to shove, despite the obvious drawbacks with regards to STO+VL when compared to CATO+VL operations. Plus, it'll still be a major capability upgrade over an all-helicopter fleet for conducting/supporting amphibious assault operations, all things considered.
Huge well deck, facilities for hundreds of vehicles, battalion or more, incompatible ground command and comms, medical facilities, with all unnecessary negative effect it has on a ship, can be left overboard.
LHD isn't really a carrier which evil CCP fails to see. It's a flatter, gray roro with stronger roof and rerouted exhaust. Byd electric car invasion ships in many ways are closer to them than carriers (which are overly evolved cruisers).
You can just pay for proper aviation facilities and machinery instead, and in principle it isn't improbable you'll get a way better carrier than 001 class, but for a 075 bill. And with J-35s, without additional split in a fleet and huge costs of new aircraft program.
I.e. 075 is not a justification for VTOL(especially when vtol program will likely cost an order of magnitude more money).
PLA MC mission, on the other hand, is certainly much better and convincing.
MC is meant for offensive operations in maritime domain.
Few things solidify amphibious operations better than forward-based airpower. In this way, sino-vtol can make the entire scheme complete.
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