CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[Blitzo]

Somebody should inflate a J-31 decoy on deck and watch the freak out that ensues.

... Uh, we've already seen J-35 mockup on CV-18 and it's probably at sea on or in the carrier.

It wouldn't cause much of a freakout because if it was seen on the deck on a satellite images, it would be seen as either a mockup or perhaps the real aircraft doing aviation trials on it which we expect in the near future anyway.


And if you mean the land based "J-31" why would that relate to Pakistan at all, given we won't expect the land based "J-31" to be on CV-18 to even get on the flight deck to begin with (it can't even land on it let alone take off from it), not to mention on a satellite image of this quality we wouldn't be able to reliably differentiate from a J-35 mockup versus a J-31 mockup.


All of which is to say.... This joke doesn't make any sense to me?

 

[siegecrossbow]

... Uh, we've already seen J-35 mockup on CV-18 and it's probably at sea on or in the carrier.

It wouldn't cause much of a freakout because if it was seen on the deck on a satellite images, it would be seen as either a mockup or perhaps the real aircraft doing aviation trials on it which we expect in the near future anyway.


And if you mean the land based "J-31" why would that relate to Pakistan at all, given we won't expect the land based "J-31" to be on CV-18 to even get on the flight deck to begin with (it can't even land on it let alone take off from it), not to mention on a satellite image of this quality we wouldn't be able to reliably differentiate from a J-35 mockup versus a J-31 mockup.


All of which is to say.... This joke doesn't make any sense to me?

Only @Deino gets it.

 

[Maikeru]

... Uh, we've already seen J-35 mockup on CV-18 and it's probably at sea on or in the carrier.

It wouldn't cause much of a freakout because if it was seen on the deck on a satellite images, it would be seen as either a mockup or perhaps the real aircraft doing aviation trials on it which we expect in the near future anyway.


And if you mean the land based "J-31" why would that relate to Pakistan at all, given we won't expect the land based "J-31" to be on CV-18 to even get on the flight deck to begin with (it can't even land on it let alone take off from it), not to mention on a satellite image of this quality we wouldn't be able to reliably differentiate from a J-35 mockup versus a J-31 mockup.


All of which is to say.... This joke doesn't make any sense to me?

There's a joker on PDF @Deino keeps arguing with who claims that J-31 will enter service with PAF imminently, in fact any day now. The latest suggestion was 2026.

 

[TK3600]

Honestly 2026 is not that far off. The carrier plane for China is already flying, just matter of testing.

 

[Blitzo]

There's a joker on PDF @Deino keeps arguing with who claims that J-31 will enter service with PAF imminently, in fact any day now. The latest suggestion was 2026.

I'm aware of that, but it seems a bizarre joke that has no bearing for CV-18, unless we are going to bring in jokes relating to J-31/PAF for anything that is vaguely tangentially related to J-31.

 

[Deino]

I'm aware of that, but it seems a bizarre joke that has no bearing for CV-18, unless we are going to bring in jokes relating to J-31/PAF for anything that is vaguely tangentially related to J-31.

Indeed, even if there is no relevance at all, he is so much obsessed that any image, any rumour or whatever is interpret as „it will come to Pakistan soon (= in 2026). In fact he makes no difference between demonstrators, prototypes, he confuses all designations used so that in the end he often has the same individual aircraft once listed as the FC-31, as J-31 or even the J-35 prototypes.

But we are already too much off topic!

 

[by78]

Fujian doing figure eights.

 

[Deino]

Fujian doing figure eights.

Another one from yesterday & today

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Fujian's 2nd sea trial will be extended until June 16th.

The duration of sea trial conducted this time will become more than 3 weeks - A rare occurence.

Posted by @Captain小潇 on Weibo.

 

[by78]

Another good frontal view of the island.