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US aircraft carriers still rule the seas, but Russia and China both have plans to change that insider@insider.com (Benjamin Brimelow) © GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images A Chinese DF-21D missile is driven past an image of the Great Wall of China, in Beijing s Tiananmen Square, September 3, 2015. GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images US Navy aircraft carriers have been a dominant force on the world s oceans for decades. But Russia and China, seen as the US s two main rivals in the years to come, are working hard new new weapons that could threaten that dominance. In August, China launched two ballistic missiles that, according to a Chinese military expert, hit a moving target ship in the South China Sea thousands of miles from their launch sites.

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