| Tango01 | 29 Oct 2020 12:58 p.m. PST |
…Deployed
"China has claimed that its second aircraft carrier, the Shandong, is now military ready after soldiers carried out a series of live-fire drills.
The country's state broadcaster this week released a dramatic video, which shows the 50,000-tonne warship launching ammunition to blow up enemy targets during an exercise…"
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| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 29 Oct 2020 1:12 p.m. PST |
I'm more interested in their third carrier, which is supposed to launch planes by EM catapult. |
| mjkerner | 29 Oct 2020 1:38 p.m. PST |
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| Col Durnford | 29 Oct 2020 2:33 p.m. PST |
Yes, looks like they misspelled destroyed. |
| arealdeadone | 29 Oct 2020 3:44 p.m. PST |
Kitted out with lots of flags which is its primary purpose. |
| Thresher01 | 29 Oct 2020 7:40 p.m. PST |
Ready to go to sea is a lot different than being fully operational. I wonder how the pilot training for these is going? Last I read there were major issues with the Chinese-built Sukhoi engines, and they were thinking they might need to opt for a smaller, jet fighter, Mig-29 derivative. |
| arealdeadone | 29 Oct 2020 8:17 p.m. PST |
Both the MiG-29K and Su-33/J-15 are trash when operating off carriers. They simply can't carry a reasonable fuel or weapon load to be useful for anything other than point defence (which should be covered by escort's SAMs anyhow). |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 30 Oct 2020 8:43 a.m. PST |
they were thinking they might need to opt for a smaller, jet fighter, Mig-29 derivative. The J-15's are too big and plagued with problems for carrier ops. The fighter that the Chinese may end up adopting is the FC-31 (copy of the F-35 incorporating local modifications): link |
| Andrew Walters | 30 Oct 2020 9:17 a.m. PST |
"Deployed" seems optimistic. I would believe "sail around". 50,000 tons, I guess that counts as a carrier. That's exactly half the weight of a Nimitz… |
| Tango01 | 30 Oct 2020 12:43 p.m. PST |
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Old Glory  | 30 Oct 2020 1:30 p.m. PST |
I would say something, however to quote Wellington in the movie Waterloo-- If there is one thing I know absolutely nothing about, it is aircraft carriers!" Russ Dunaway |
tries out the expansion roads set.
