CV-16, CV-17 STOBAR carrier thread (001/Liaoning, 002/Shandong)

00CuriousObserver

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the first takeoff of the J-15 from the Shandong aircraft carrier occurred on August 8, 2019. It took 3 years, until August 2022, to complete 1,000 takeoffs and landings. The next 1,000 were achieved 7 months later, in March 2023. By July 2025, the total reached nearly 10,000, meaning approximately 6,000 takeoffs and landings were completed in the following 28 months.

I had misread the figure and my calcs were wrong
 

by78

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A glimpse of the below-deck portion of Shandong's arresting gear system.

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tphuang

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It's actually quite interesting from the recent guancha guy episode. They mentioned that CV-17 was basically just flying from spot 3 take-off in the recent deployment. It's quite possible they were trying to see what kind of sortie rate they can generate from longer runway.
 
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