CV-17 Shandong (002 carrier) Thread I ...News, Views and operations

[Tam]

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After a fourth sea trial, China’s Type 001A aircraft carrier may go into service within months

• Vessel returned to home port of Dalian on Tuesday after spending 13 days undergoing tests in the Yellow Sea
• Naval expert says it may be ready in time for fleet review on April 23

UPDATED : Thursday, 10 January, 2019

Repeating once more, I am thinking April 23 will also do a dual commissioning ceremony for "Nanchang" and "Shandong".

 

[Hendrik_2000]

Latest pic via Lkj86
Handsome ship

 

[Sczepan]

flags - on the (test-)road again

 

[Hendrik_2000]

Latest pic via LKJ86 coming February the weather will get warmer time to fly
The jet blast deflector is up and running

 

[asif iqbal]

Personally I would like to have seen a 3rd batch of J15 by now

Also new helicopters for this carrier

Also atleast some evidence of naval FC-31 V3

Air wings of carriers don’t look good

3rd carrier and no evidence of any more fixed wing or rotary aircraft

Even KJ-600 AWACS did not show up last year as rumoured

 

[gelgoog]

Personally I would like to have seen a 3rd batch of J15 by now

Also new helicopters for this carrier

Also atleast some evidence of naval FC-31 V3

Air wings of carriers don’t look good

3rd carrier and no evidence of any more fixed wing or rotary aircraft

Even KJ-600 AWACS did not show up last year as rumoured

All the Chinese carriers built or in production are basically test carriers. I suspect we will hear more about the FC-31 or naval stealth before this May.
There is no need to rush things. The main priority is likely crew/pilot training and we have had reports of that being in progress.

Even once the third carrier is launched it will take a long time to fit it out and conduct trials.

I do think the Chinese need a subsonic small aircraft for the AWACS/transport/refuel tasks once their main carriers become operational.
There is a possibility these could be drone based but I think that is probably a bad idea in the near term.
I would make it turbofan rather than turboprop based like the KJ-600.

 

[by78]

Don't know when this was taken... It appears to be Shandong returning to shipyard from her last trial. Original resolution (4096 x 2306) is

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(2048 x 1153)

 

[by78]

A sharp profile view of Shandong.

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(2048 x 1357)

 

[B.I.B.]

Latest pic via Lkj86
Handsome ship

Unless I am mistaken, ships are referred to in the female gender. Therefore you should be calling her a beautiful.ship
Just nitpicking

 

[kwaigonegin]

Unless I am mistaken, ships are referred to in the female gender. Therefore you should be calling her a beautiful.ship
Just nitpicking

Not to nitpick ... but not necessary. I know in Russia and Spain ships are not always referred to in the male pronoun. Not sure about China though.