CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[00CuriousObserver]

Military analyst Zhang Junshe (张军社): Following a period of maintenance and cross-sea-area training, the aircraft carrier Fujian is likely to enter the Pacific in the near term to conduct far-seas training. The timeline is expected to be relatively short, and 2026 could plausibly be the year in which the carrier’s far-seas, open-ocean training deployments become visible.

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[ACuriousPLAFan]

Military analyst Zhang Junshe (张军社): Following a period of maintenance and cross-sea-area training, the aircraft carrier Fujian is likely to enter the Pacific in the near term to conduct far-seas training. The timeline is expected to be relatively short, and 2026 could plausibly be the year in which the carrier’s far-seas, open-ocean training deployments become visible.

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I think it's not exactly far-fetched to say that Fujian is still quite experimental in nature in view of the PLAN, especially with the addition of KJ-600 and J-35 alongside the CATOBAR flight deck operations.

 

[_killuminati_]

Could you explain how? Are you referring to using Sentinel-1/2? The two sat have different revisit period and rarely scan the same area on the same day. Even when they do, their imaging times typically differ by about 7 hours, and the ship will not remain stationary in one place.

For moving objects, inverse-SAR is more appropriate.