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CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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Nope. But is is reasonable to expect 10-14 helos, a few EW and EW aircraft, and the fighter wing mostly being the J-35s. The exact composition would be mission specific.
lcloo
Major
What does 安游1 (on the stamp date) mean?
Edit：
安 = 国安 National Scurity？
游 = 巡游 Mobile (post office)？
1 = 临时邮戳的第一个编号 (temporary ad hoc post code？
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I don't think that the PLA has ever stated the air wings for Shandong or Liaoning so I doubt there's going to be any information out there for Fujian.
That said, American carriers have the following configuration:
4x Fighter squadrons
1x EW Warfare squadron
1x AEW squadron
1x Search & Rescue helicopter squadron
1x ASW helicopter squadron
1x Transport squadron
I imagine that Fujian will use a similar setup. It's a bit smaller than American supercarriers and J-15Ts are bigger than any of the American Navy fighters so it won't be able to accomodate quite as many aircraft. But these supercarriers rarely operate to full capacity anyways so it shouldn't be that much of a limitation. I also wouldn't be surprised if there are some drone units permanently assigned to Fujian once those are certified as combat ready.
In their stream, the trio said that the ship was indeed commissioned on the 5th, but it has not been announced.
lcloo
Major
The generally short deployment duration of Liaoning and Shandong does not warrant fixed airwings on board, in contrast to US navy aircraft carriers.
PLAN aircraft carriers were normally deployed in term of days instead of months, and always within range of land based aircraft. They can easily rotate any aircraft from and to land bases anytime, making having a fixed airwing unneccessary.
The composition and number of rotary and fixed wing aircraft onboard would be mission specific, especially most of the voyages were training centric, thus the different composition and numbers from time to time.
US aircraft carriers deployed thousands or even beyond 10 thousand km from their airwing's land home bases. The aircraft stay with the ship for the whole deployment duration that can last from 6 to 9 months.
As for Fujian, the near term deployments before FOC would be just like those of Liaoning and Shandong.
PLAN aircraft carriers were normally deployed in term of days instead of months, and always within range of land based aircraft. They can easily rotate any aircraft from and to land bases anytime, making having a fixed airwing unneccessary.
The composition and number of rotary and fixed wing aircraft onboard would be mission specific, especially most of the voyages were training centric, thus the different composition and numbers from time to time.
US aircraft carriers deployed thousands or even beyond 10 thousand km from their airwing's land home bases. The aircraft stay with the ship for the whole deployment duration that can last from 6 to 9 months.
As for Fujian, the near term deployments before FOC would be just like those of Liaoning and Shandong.
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