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

[H2O]

I don't get it. The Liaoning gets more time at sea than the Shandong.

 

[Intrepid]

I don't get it. The Liaoning gets more time at sea than the Shandong.

Because Liaoning is foreseen and planned in the overall concept. Shandong came in addition and initially has no tasks in the overall concept.

 

[Totoro]

I'd rather say the reason is because Shandong is simply not ready yet. It's built from scratch, it has perhaps some significant changes to some of its internals and it simply needs to be tested and retested. It may need months, not weeks of various work done to it after every one of these test runs. The hole process is quite normal to take this long, even with the navies with much more experience with carriers.

 

[lcloo]

CV17 Shandong is now at "shake down" stage, it will spend a lot more time at berth than CV16 Liaoning. Once the shake down is completed we will see her spend as much time at sea as Liaoning.

 

[by78]

A satellite image dated July 10, 2020.

 

[Tam]

Two 055 at Qingdao is quite a bonanza. Obviously its either in service or some advanced trials. New trials procedure is that PLAN takes over and does the trials at some point.

 

[by78]

Latest sighting...

 

[by78]

Rep-posting a lost image.

 

[by78]

Satellite update...

 

[asif iqbal]

always sailing very close to home

whats the longest deployments and furthest CV-16 has been ?