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

[by78]

A nice image, nothing more.

 

[by78]

Some nice magazine scans.

 

[by78]

Some of the equipment from carrier Liaoning.

LED light gloves used to direct takeoffs at night:

A guide pulleys for the arresting wires:

 

[by78]

Two nice magazine scans.

 

[00CuriousObserver]

Source @欧阳振我86468 (watermark)

 

[mack8]

From the same series.

 

[AaronGTO]

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this information here. During last month's Yankees broadcast, he confirmed with relevant People's Liberation Army personnel the reason behind the Liaoning aircraft carrier's selection of the hull number "16." In the initial discussions about the ship's number, there was consideration given to using "83," but it was later abandoned as the number had little connection with the PLA Navy in various aspects. Later, during a relevant meeting, a personnel primarily involved in importing weapons for the PLA (mainly from Russia) proposed that since the predecessor of the Liaoning, the Soviet-era project, had the code name 1143.6, the digits at the beginning and end—1 and 6—could be combined to form "16" as the hull number. This idea carried the beautiful metaphor of "有始有终" (meaning "to carry through from beginning to end"), and it ultimately gained unanimous approval.