"The PLA Aircraft Carrier " Topic
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Tango01  | 07 Jan 2014 8:50 p.m. PST |
Good job here.
From here
link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Mako11 | 08 Jan 2014 3:22 a.m. PST |
A very nice looking model, though that foredeck helo looks like it's in a bad place, given the raised blast shields behind the jets. I suspect they'll get the hang of carrier ops, eventually. |
| Zargon | 08 Jan 2014 4:49 a.m. PST |
Question to anyone out there? do the Chinese not use catapult technology on Casino Carrier One? Looking at the model can see those blast door things and a rollerskate jump, is this similar to the UK's sad efforts at modern aircraft carrier designs? Would think on such a fairly large carrier they would have had a flat deck and catapults. Please enlighten my sadly scant knowledge on these behemoths of modern naval shipping. Am I being too harsh as I think of those big American 'bad boys' the Nimitz class ACs. Being the ideal. Cheers |
| Only Warlock | 08 Jan 2014 6:10 a.m. PST |
It's much smaller than one of our super carriers and designed around a much less capable strike package. They need the ski jump because the deck is so small. |
| VonTed | 08 Jan 2014 6:33 a.m. PST |
What? Is that a carrier for ANTS?! It needs to be… at three times that size!
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 David Manley | 08 Jan 2014 8:47 a.m. PST |
"It's much smaller than one of our super carriers and designed around a much less capable strike package. They need the ski jump because the deck is so small." Actually it wasn't initially designed around a strike package but as a deck for fighters using land bases as much as a sea base, and also around a battery of rather large supersonic ASCMs in silos under the forward part of the flight deck. |
| Tango01 | 08 Jan 2014 10:20 a.m. PST |
Glad you like the model boys. Amicalement
Armand |
| BigNickR | 09 Jan 2014 6:52 a.m. PST |
those aircraft on the decks are wishful thinking at the moment aren't they? Last I heard it hadn't embarked ANY aircraft. That said it's a beautiful model, and actually a pretty ship, if nowhere near as powerful as a nimitz. Wonder how it would fair against one of our second stringers, say an amphibious assault ship that has embarked f35's… or anyone ELSE'S carriers |
| Juramentado | 09 Jan 2014 7:16 a.m. PST |
Like whose? Thailand's? They're the only ones in PACRIM who natively have a CV. You'll have to wait until 2016 to see a fight between Liaoning and any US Navy gator carrier. The USMC will declare IOC on F-35 as soon as a) Block 2A software gets built and passes bug tests – only then can they actually fire *some* A2A missiles (not all types rated) and *maybe* drop some bombs. b) they need to figure out what reinforcement is needed on the LHDs and LHAs so the JSF's infamous exhaust and jet blast don't wreck the deck and topsides of carriers. |
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