China aircraft carrier confirmed

[Gerald]

The head of China's General Staff of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has confirmed that China's first aircraft carrier is under construction.

Gen Chen Bingde refused to say when the carrier - a remodelled Soviet-era vessel, the Varyag - would be ready.

A member of his staff said the carrier would pose no threat to other nations.

The 300m (990ft) carrier, which is being built in the north-east port of Dalian, has been one of China's worst-kept secrets, analysts say.

Gen Chen made his comments to the Chinese-language Hong Kong Commercial Daily newspaper.

Symbol of power

The PLA - the largest army in the world - is hugely secretive about its defence programme.

The carrier was constructed in the 1980s for the Soviet navy but was never completed. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the rusting hull of the Varyag sat in dockyards in Ukraine.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13692558


Note: 8 June 2011 Last updated at 12:06 GMT

[TLAM Strike]

The head of China's General Staff of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has confirmed that China's first aircraft carrier is under construction.

Yea I think we know... :haha:

[Gerald]

Yea I think we know... :haha: Is it posted earlier, if so, I would like to have link, ;)

[TLAM Strike]

Is it posted earlier, if so, I would like to have link, ;)
The PLA took this long to confirm it, we have had pictures of it for years. :O:

[Gerald]

The PLA took this long to confirm it, we have had pictures of it for years. :O: Yes I now,but I mean here in SubSim by topic, :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

http://themaritimeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/39_9212_b8825bf4df0a5d4.jpg

Google is your friend http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/google.gif

[TLAM Strike]

That photo is old, she has her PARs now:
http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/2151/varyagjun43.jpg

[LtzS_Petersen]

Found with google an Aerial Picture:
http://www.abload.de/img/chinese_carrier_inponddsr7.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=chinese_carrier_inponddsr7.jpg])
:yeah:

[Gerald]

http://themaritimeblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/39_9212_b8825bf4df0a5d4.jpg

Google is your friend http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/google.gif Also includes the wolf above google .... btw you did not find a larger photo, :shucks:

[TLAM Strike]

Found with google an Aerial Picture:
http://www.abload.de/img/chinese_carrier_inponddsr7.jpg (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=chinese_carrier_inponddsr7.jpg])
:yeah:

That's the Kiev class carrier they rebuilt as a theme park, not the Shi Lang.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

The 300m (990ft) carrier, which is being built in the north-east port of Dalian, has been one of China's worst-kept secrets, analysts say.
True. It have been very much an official secret, like BT Tower was. :DL

I don't think that others could have done it any better. Hiding a 300 m aircraft carrier is a bit challenging.

EDIT: What the... 10 comments? There was none when I started to type! I'm becoming slow...

[TLAM Strike]

I don't think that others could have done it any better. Hiding a 300 m aircraft carrier is a bit challenging.

O'realy...
(http://www.combinedfleet.com/fura----a/scruyu_f.htm)
:O:

EDIT: Link doesn't work:
http://www.combinedfleet.com/fura----a/scruyu_f.htm

EDIT: Damn it Neal!

http://www.combinedfleet.com/fura s h i t a/scruyu_f.htm
^Remove the spaces...

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

O'realy...
(http://www.combinedfleet.com/fura----a/scruyu_f.htm)
:O:

EDIT: Link doesn't work:
http://www.combinedfleet.com/fura----a/scruyu_f.htm

EDIT: Damn it Neal!

http://www.combinedfleet.com/fura s h i t a/scruyu_f.htm
^Remove the spaces...
:har::rotfl2:

I have never ever before witnessed anything like this happening with profanity filters. :haha:

[Oberon]

Reads article. Reads article. Reads article for the third time.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llrwom97Cr1qkatiuo1_500.jpg

Anyway, it's nice to see the PRC finally admitting what we already know.

They've got the training center set up, and they've had the HMAS Melbourne until late 2002. J-15 is coming online now, so I'd say the Shi Lang will be fully ready by next year, and I'd wager the next two Type 089 carriers will be unveiled about that point when they start being built.

[Gerald]

Why are they going to build, when you are still going to sell the most :O:

[Jimbuna]

O'realy...
(http://www.combinedfleet.com/fura----a/scruyu_f.htm)
:O:

EDIT: Link doesn't work:
http://www.combinedfleet.com/fura----a/scruyu_f.htm

EDIT: Damn it Neal!

http://www.combinedfleet.com/fura s h i t a/scruyu_f.htm
^Remove the spaces...

The WWII IJN Scruyu?

[danasan]

:har::rotfl2:

I have never ever before witnessed anything like this happening with profanity filters. :haha:

I tried to put a name and a link to our world famous Bundesmarine School sailship Gorch F O C K in the photo thread, well, that did work fine...:har:

Edit: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1674473&postcount=338

[TLAM Strike]

The WWII IJN Scruyu?

From the site:
The following series of essays and pictures regard a fictional set of Imperial Japanese naval vessels, and others, developed by my friend Admiral U. Fura----a. These units never sailed the seas, except in the Admiral's imagination, as part of his "Victory Through Seapower" World War II wargame. I hope you are as amused by them as I am.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/kaigun.htm
^Look towards the bottom

[Jimbuna]

Yep...got it :up:

[Oberon]

Don't even get the filters started on the company behind this German bird:

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTtM-M2k5ODIKzSdurQFPxtwuM9H8aRniUGTKUMWm0htgYU19vk&t=1

:03:

[TLAM Strike]

Don't even get the filters started on the company behind this German bird:

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTtM-M2k5ODIKzSdurQFPxtwuM9H8aRniUGTKUMWm0htgYU19vk&t=1

:03:

Or this one:
http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/7296/fordi.jpg

[Oberon]

Really? Fokker too? For shame, for shame. :damn:

EDIT: Oh dear TLAM.