CV-16 Liaoning (001 carrier) Thread II ...News, Views and operations

[Hendrik_2000]

Here it is

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New Chinese aircraft carrier exit in the South China Sea

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With the Chinese New Year now over, the Chinese Liaoning aircraft carrier has cast off again and is turning once again into the South China Sea

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As usual, the Chinese navy remained deliberately very discreet on the movement of its flag ship, but we had a first indication on the departure of the only Chinese aircraft carrier thanks to

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, indicating the closure of a maritime area 170 km from the base port for reasons of "major military exercise".

A video broadcast on the Chinese national television channel CCTV-1 also mentions that "the Liaoning aircraft carrier is currently on a training mission at sea", without giving any further explanation.

The Taiwanese Ministry of Defense, attentive to the slightest movement of Chinese naval air forces, then officially confirms yesterday morning the Chinese aircraft carrier's exit during a session in Taipei's Parliament.

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YEN Teh Fa, army general and defense minister of the island, saidLiaoning is currently on its way south but refuses to comment further on the event.

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, stating that the Chinese aircraft carrier has entered the Taiwan Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), which covers the entire Taiwan Strait on 20 January. March at 20h local time and came out on 21 around 12:30.

These elements allow us to deduce that the Chinese flotilla crossed the Taiwanese ADIZ for about 16.5 hours, which is to suggest that the Chinese aircraft carrier and its escort vessels sped right through the and at a speed greater than 28 knots.

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Chinese Liaoning Aircraft Carrier Journey Tracking until 21 March 2018 at 12:30 local time (Image: East Pendulum)

It should be noted that a sea-firing exercise took place near Wenzhou, a Chinese coastal city located south of Shanghai and on the Chinese aircraft carrier's crossing, at the time of crossing. But on the face of it there is no direct link with the carrier group since the maneuvers took place from 9am to 1pm local time on March 21st, if we believe the message dedicated to aircrafts (NOTAM), while the door -We should already be away from the place indicated.

A0783 / 18
Q) ZSHA / QWMLW / IV / BO / W / 000/164 / 2727N12053E009
A) ZSHA B) 1803210100 C) 1803210500
E) GUN FIRING WILL TAKE PLACE WI AN AREA BOUNDED BY:
N273000E1204612-N273000E1210312-N272412E1210042-N272412E1204342- N27
3000E1204612, ALT 5000M. ALL ACFT SHALL KEEP AT LEAST 20K AWAY
FROM THE AERA.
F) SFC G) 5000M AMSL

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The naval fire drill area on the Liaoning aircraft carrier (Image: East Pendulum)

Henri K.

 

[Hendrik_2000]

The Chinese navy will conduct a major naval exercise in the South China Sea. The aircraft carrier Liaoning and its airwing group could participate.

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[asif iqbal]

Wow CV-16 with Type 901 tanker

That is a first , must be doing formation sailing and carrier resupply training !

Can’t wait to see more

 

[Jura The idiot]

Wednesday at 7:57 AM

now noticed Taiwan shadows China carrier group after Xi warning
Updated 35 minutes ago

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and now I read
Liaoning aircraft carrier enters Taiwan Strait, "Too normal. Is it really news?"

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"The aircraft carrier from the Chinese mainland is coming again," the Taiwan media exclaimed on Mar. 21 at a time when the situation in the Taiwan Strait is particularly sensitive due to the "Taiwan Travel Act."

Taiwan’s so-called "Defense Minister" Yen Teh-fa confirmed on Mar. 21 that the aircraft carrier Liaoning from the Chinese mainland entered the Taiwan Strait on Mar. 20. Taiwan’s so-called "Presidential Office" claimed that the Taiwan military's "various countermeasures are in place" and that the Taiwan people can rest assured.

Compared with Taiwan's excitement, Chinese mainlanders interviewed by the Global Times responded flatly. A person who did not wish to be identified told the Global Times on Mar. 21: "This is too normal. Is it really news?"

As for the timing of the appearance of the Liaoning aircraft carrier in the Taiwan Strait and the "Taiwan Travel Act", and whether it is a countermeasure taken by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the person stated that any party can speculate as to whether it is a countermeasure or not.

However, the Chinese mainland does not need to use any tricks to counter the "Taiwan Travel Act". The Chinese mainland has a lot of powerful countermeasures for the related parties that damage China's core interests. The Chinese mainland does not need to be sneaky, shy or secretive when it comes to countermeasures. Any party that damages China's core interests must weigh if they can afford to touch China's red line, said the person.

A military expert who wished to be anonymous said in an interview with the Global Times on Mar. 21 that it is not the first time the Liaoning aircraft carrier has conducted cross-sea training and the latest sailing is also a routine one.

The fact that the PLA did not issue any news the last two times means that this is a normal training and there was no need to announce it. At present, the cross-sea training of the aircraft carrier has been normalized, and Taiwan should adapt to it, said the expert.

As for the training content, the expert said that it includes verification of long-range carrier navigation capabilities and coordinated formation methods, and improvement of combat capability.

The expert believed that the cross-sea training of the Liaoning aircraft carrier aims to improve the capability to fight and defeat the hostile. Its main purpose is to safeguard the country’s sovereignty, security, territorial integrity and unity. “It is a shock to the forces of ‘Taiwan independence’,” said the expert.

 

[Hendrik_2000]

Back couple years when Liaoning first start trial run, many of the western analyst suggested that Chna couldn't possibly manufacture a carrier steel so they say it must imported from Sweden. Well now the secret is out Nope no blond swede is helping China but 30 years Chinese female engineer did
Here is via Cybernetic the story of Chinese development of Carrier quality steel
BTW Anshan is the craddle of Chinese heavy industry I include brief description of Anshan iron and steel factory history.Started by the Japanese. looted by the soviet union China has to restart from scratch

Here is Cybernetic summary
Video summary:
18th national congress stated China's goal of building an industrially strong nation. Steel is a fundamental industry and the life blood of the economy. The development of the steel industry has an intimate relation with the nation's economy, society, and development of national defence.

Anshan, Liaoning, a city born out of the steel industry, is a major steel production base of China. Angang steel is an "elder" and birth place of the nation's steel industry. It symbolises China's transition from a large steel producer to a strong steel producer.

Carrier steel is produced in Bayuquan 鲅鱼圈, a city 100km south of Anshan. The facility includes China's most advanced steel manufacturing and processing equipment, including machine that produces 5.5m wide (world's widest), up to more than 40m long steel plates (4 times the previous steel plate size), with more than 100,000 tones of compression force. The advantage of large steel plates is that it lowers welding length, reduces production time, and improve overall quality. Currently this is the only production facility in China for producing this type of large piece carrier steel.

Steel testing and analysis @6:55
Thousands of samples were taken on areas of concern and performed impact testing. All samples met the criterias.

@7:53 a 30 year old technician joined the carrier steel development and manufacturing team in 2012. During the one month production period, he was in the facility 24 hours a day to ensure quality, only sleeping 3-4 hours a day.

@8:38 engineers monitoring steel production. Zhoudan, one of Angang Steel's military steel researcher with 24 years of naval steel research experience. In 2008 she received a task to develop steel to repair Liaoning carrier. @9:52 After 2 months of trials they achieved their first batch. In May of 2009 Angang sent out 200 tones of steel used to repair Liaoning.

Anshan Iron and steel factory

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The city was burnt down during the

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, and was destroyed again in the

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(1904–1905). As a result of this war, Japan had gained influence in Liaoning and was engaged in industrialising the region. Anshan lay beside the new

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line that ran from the port of

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to the major city of

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. As a joint Sino-Japanese venture, Anshan Zhenzing Iron Ore Company Unlimited was started in Anshan in 1918. After the

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in 1931, Japan occupied the northeast of China. The mills were turned into a Japanese owned monopoly. In 1933, the site was expanded to include steel production and the company was renamed

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.

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Anshan became part of the Japanese puppet state of

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. Additional industries developed around the iron and steel mills. The city of Anshan grew significantly in size around this new industrial site.

Anshan had become one of the largest producers of iron and steel in Asia if not the world.
It was bombed heavily in WWII

At the end of the war,

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forces launched Operation August Storm, which captured Manchuria from the Japanese. The Soviets looted the ruins of Shōwa Steel Works for anything that could be taken back to the Soviet Union. With the defeat of Japan in 1945, Anshan was returned to China along with the rest of Chinese Manchuria. However, peace had not yet arrived. Civil war continued between the

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and the Communist

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(PLA). The city of Anshan was the scene of one of the battles of this war. The city was taken by the PLA on February 19, 1948. A monument in Lieshishan park commemorates the battle.

 

[Sczepan]

Back couple years when Liaoning first start trial run, many of the western analyst suggested that Chna couldn't possibly manufacture a carrier steel so they say it must imported from Sweden. Well now the secret is out Nope no blond swede is helping China but 30 years Chinese female engineer did....

Huh - do you really think, CV-16 Liaoning was build with chinese steel? Why do you post in this thread?

CV 16 was build in Ukrainia, as I know, and got special steel to be used in the cold (arctic) waters of Murmansk and Wladiwostok ....

 

[Jura The idiot]

now noticed the tweet

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Incredible shot by our friends at

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showing China’s aircraft carrier headed back into port at Yulin.

 

[antiterror13]

Huh - do you really think, CV-16 Liaoning was build with chinese steel? Why do you post in this thread?

CV 16 was build in Ukrainia, as I know, and got special steel to be used in the cold (arctic) waters of Murmansk and Wladiwostok ....

He was pointing out CV-17 .. all members in this forum (let alone @Hendrik_2000 ) know too well that CV-16 hull was build in USSR which at that time Ukraine was part of USSR

Unfortunately you are not the only one who knew that CV-16 hull was build by USSR

 

[Deino]

Is this real?? ... or psed?

 

[broadsword]

Psed. One side is the mirror image of the other.