The Liaoning conducted 10 sea trials in 13 months from its first sea trial in August 2011 to its commissioning in September 2012, and it took more than five years for it to be declared operational in November 2016. China's second aircraft carrier, the Shandong, conducted nine sea trials in 19 months from its first sea trial in May 2018 to its commissioning in December 2019, and it took more than five years for it to conduct high-intensity combat exercises in the Western Pacific before October 2023.
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
There was a member who accurately recorded the sea trials on this forum day by day for CV-16 and CV-17 and even did a comparison
I hope we will have that data and it’s not been lost
I am sure someone can find it
I hope we will have that data and it’s not been lost
I am sure someone can find it
Fujian CV, 3 days after she concluded her 2nd sea trial. Posted by @北冥有鱼MK6 on Weibo.
lcloo
Captain
This looked like the old photo that appeared two or three months ago... inside the out-fitting basin before the first sea trial.
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Correction : posted by your goodself on March 27 2024, on post #9783.
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You sure? There was a 052DG parked right in front of the CV's bow in the March photo (quoted below), which is notably absent in the photo which I've posted directly above. There is no J-35 mockup visible in the March photo as well.
The photo from 27 March 2024:
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