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

[Strangelove]

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China’s second aircraft carrier Shandong likely to have had close encounter with US ship: military experts

 

[luosifen]

Life on Shandong for the female crew:

 

[by78]

Scheduled maintenance on Liaoning begins. Already the radar atop the main mast has been removed.

 

[Cloud_Nine_]

Wonder if Liaoning and Shandong would switch out type 382 for the new radar for 054B? Or if Fujian would be equipped with an extra search radar?

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Scheduled maintenance on Liaoning begins. Already the radar atop the main mast has been removed.

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[Sczepan]

that's not a quick stop

 

[by78]

High-resolution versions of recently shared images. Pardon the large dimensions, but the file sizes are quite small.

 

[para80]

that's not a quick stop

Nearly 11 years in service on top of all the time she'd been sitting first in Ukraine, then for her rebuilding in Dalian. I'd say its safe to assume we are looking at fairly major MLU type work here.

 

[lcloo]

I think this is second of scheduled major refit, not really MLU, the first major refit was in 2018, major work involved resurfacing of top deck and repainting of the bottom Hull. That was around 5 or 6 years after commission. Current refit is about 4 1/2 year after the 2018 refit.

I expect MLU to be carried out around 2035. CV16 should serve for 40 to 50 years from 2012.

 

[by78]

Night ops aboard Shandong.