Aircraft carriers are military equipment with special strategic significance. Everybody know what it means when they see a CSG on the sea or on the media. It is inevitable to put CV18 into service as soon as possible and demonstrate its combat capabilities while taking into account current complex international environment. I would not be surprised even if the sea trial period is quitely short or there are any other key scenes published officially in the following sea trials.
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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To be fair the ship spent a decent amount of time in fitting out after launch and before the first sea trial, so it's possible it is in a relatively high state of completion.
It'll be interesting to see how things go after the second sea trial, because we will probably have a better indicator of how successful everything is.
kwaigonegin
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Generally speaking i would agree with you however for the better part of the last 10 years I have not really seen Liaoning & Shandong fully deployed operationally in a strategic role.
Perhaps things may change when this one joins the fleet. We'll just gave to wait and see
No. The 2nd sea trial has been postponed from tomorrow (May 22) to the day after tomorrow (May 23).
The announcement has been canceled and a new one was publicated:
The new sea trial date was changed to May 23.
Sorry, my bad … I‘m again already in holiday-modus! As such, stay tuned since „Deino“ is offline most of the time when we arrived in France for almost one week, so major news „could“ happen!
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Fujian has started her 2nd sea trial. Posted by @horobeyo and @sugar_wsnbn on Twitter.
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