I agree.
The pics confirm it all.
Soon they will take their second at sea trials, and they will run ...among other things....testing with those mockups which are probably mde to weight and size specs.
They will be moving them to the hanger, positioning them there, and bck up on deck and positionining them while underway.
As I said...among other things.
Again with the same request! Can we please rename that thread? Type 001A is ridiculous. No other forum calls this carrier anymore Type 001A, we have plenty of evidence that it is in fact the Type 002 or at least carrier 002 so to be taken as a serious forum, we finally should face the facts:
There is and was never a Type 001A.
If you want to avoid the controversial name Type 002 - which seem to be not as important to Chinese followers as to some others including me - we could probably agree to the following names:
001 carrier - CV-16 - Operations, News & Discussions
002 carrier (STOBAR) - News & Discussions
003 carrier (CATOBAR) - News & Discussions
... and when there's more evidence, we could even split this into:
003 carrier (CATOBAR - Shanghai) - News & Discussions
004 carrier (CATOBAR - Dalian) - News & Discussions
Respectfully,
Deino