CV-16 Liaoning (001 carrier) Thread II ...News, Views and operations
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The message is not lost on anyone. Land attack mission, amphibious landing. etc.
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PLAN promo film maker hit it out of the park with this one.
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What do you think the new construction for at Shandong Naval Base? It looks like a runway. But it is only 1400m long. Runway of the San Diego naval base is 2400m long. More importantly, there is a hill at the end of the "runway", which may block the path for landing or take-off. ( 35°45'50.62"N, 119°58'18.94"E)
It's actually railway yards/station, or both under construction. You can follow the dirt track (railway line under construction) from these yards to the North East and you will see where it passes some yards and then joins with a high-speed railway. The right angle bit going 'down', is probably for turning around trains.
Thanks for the reply. It should be a railway station. But it does not make sense to build a rail yards inside or next to one of the most important military bases. But then the railway station is for the naval base only, because there is no city near it. I am wandering whether it will operate on a daily base after completion.
Then my second question comes, why don't China build runways for the aircraft base like San Diego or Norfolk? They certainly have the capability or the money.
It does make sense to build railway yards next to or in a major military base, perfect for quick movement of men, supplies and munitions, and I'm sure that the excavation is too large for a single platform station, so it will definitely have yards. Further, China has done this at other military bases, for example, at Golmud and South of Guilin.
Also, that pattern of earthworks is consistent with how they have constructed yards/ stations together previously, for example, on the Yuxi-Mohan railway at 23°41'40.69"N , 102° 0'33.38"E, a similar pattern is visible.
That would be a bold claim. For example, there is a similar naval station in Sanya (18.2875,109.4636), about 15 km from the navy base that CV17 uses. Both NAS North Island (CA) and NS Norfolk (VA) are mostly housing rotary-wing squadrons, though both have some propeller-driven fixed-wing platforms such as C-2 and E-2 variants.
Of the given location, there are about half a dozen airstrips within a 70 km radius. Also, unlike most, the Chinese military can operate through civilian transport infrastructure as well.
Sources here in Taiwan are saying that they have "insider sources from the PLAN" saying that Liaoning busted 7 of her 8 boilers when "escaping from USN pursuit in the SCS". Not only has Liaoning lost all of her power and can only maintain its basic functions, most crew (apart from a skeleton crew) has been evacuated and Liaoning is currently being towed to a unnamed naval base by 6 tugboats for maintenance. Below is a photo allegedly photographed by a USN aircraft.
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