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

[Iron Man]

The next step - may be on the next ship - is to bring more other weapons away from the carrier to the escorts.

What other weapons are these?

 

[damitch300]

Forward sponson is different from Liaoning.
And just forward from the rear sponson is also a bit different.

 

[Iron Man]

It's different because CV-17 doesn't have VLS at those locations like the Varyag was supposed to.

 

[A.Man]

A Photo Update

 

[Intrepid]

It's different because CV-17 doesn't have VLS at those locations like the Varyag was supposed to.

What VLS do you mean?

 

[Iron Man]

What VLS do you mean?

 

[Blackstone]

Are you two talking about the same VLS?

 

[jobjed]

Are you two talking about the same VLS?

Pretty sure Intrepid, like me, didn't know the Kuznetsov has VLS in her sponsons and thought Iron Man was talking about the P700 VLS in the flight deck.

 

[jon88]

I think he meant this..

 

[Iron Man]

I think he meant this.. View attachment 34037

No, that's not what he meant. The discussion was regarding the difference between the sponsons of the CV-16 vs the CV-17. Look up "sponson" if you don't know what it means.