Chinese carrier in landing and take-off tests

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by TarJak

One carrier, a navy does not make. They certainly are a long ways off the power projection that the US carrier fleet can muster, but they are a a potent regional threat and will have the likes of India, Taiwan and South Korea nervous for a while to come with the fleet they are building over the next few years and the carrier and the J-15 will definitely be a big part of their regional strategy. Whether the J-15 works or not as a weapons platform will be interesting to observe.

Just hope they decide to stay north of the equator and don't decide they don't want to buy our minerals and farms any more, preferring to just take them.

You could always turn to your secret weapon as a last resort...the drop bear

[Sailor Steve]

Article posted on Subsim's front page.

[troopie]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

You could always turn to your secret weapon as a last resort...the drop bear

Yeah, a land invasion is definately out of the question!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by troopie

Yeah, a land invasion is definately out of the question!

[AriesRCN]

What i have always loved was that the intel community has always said that

1) China will never aquire an aircraft carrier
2) China will never refit the aircraft carrier
3)it will not put to sea until 2013/14
4)ok, it put to sea, but it is only a training platform and will not have a weapon system or advanced sensors
5) ok, so it has weapons and advanced sensors, but it wont have aircraft land on it untill 2014/15
6) ok, an aircraft landed, but it will never have a full airwing

I love the intel guys, and i cant believe that this time next year i will be part of them.

[Herr-Berbunch]

It seemed a very long trap!

And I see no catapult.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

It seemed a very long trap!

And I see no catapult.

It wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't a catapult on her yet but the propaganda message imo was "Look we now have carrier airborne capability".

[AriesRCN]

The Chinese aircraft carrier (and most of europe) do not use catapults. They use the ski jump system.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by AriesRCN

The Chinese aircraft carrier (and most of europe) do not use catapults. They use the ski jump system.

Yeah, fair comment.

[nikimcbee]

I wonder how many times they watched "Top Gun" before they figured it out?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I wonder how many times they watched "Top Gun" before they figured it out?

First few attempts probably looked accidentally like this:

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

It seemed a very long trap!

And I see no catapult.

That's because they were embarrassed, when they realized they installed the wrong type.

[Gerald]

^Stone age,

[Karle94]

Why be afraid of it? The J-15/SU-33 can`t take off with much fuel and arnament and is as such practically useless. Only cats can launch a plane fully fueled and armed. A feature only American and French carriers both present and future will have.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Karle94

Why be afraid of it? The J-15/SU-33 can`t take off with much fuel and arnament and is as such practically useless. Only cats can launch a plane fully fueled and armed. A feature only American and French carriers both present and future will have.

Good point but times are changing austerity measure wise.