That’s obviously from northern China
J-15 carrier fighter thread
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From Henri K
First official video which confirms that the J-15 of the Chinese navy, which should be part of the air group of the aircraft carrier 17 Shandong, is now training on the island of Hainan near the South China Sea.
First official video which confirms that the J-15 of the Chinese navy, which should be part of the air group of the aircraft carrier 17 Shandong, is now training on the island of Hainan near the South China Sea.
I was wrong. That looks indeed like Lingshui.
It's a bit weird that the mid figure serials, the 30-somethings, are still at just 6 airframes, all consecutive numbers. While at the same time we're seeing the 00s and 10s and 60s and 70s in large numbers.
Makes me wonder if there are actually not many more of planes with those 30 something serials.
And if so, would that mean they're part of some special, small size unit? But what purpose could a 6 or so sized unit be for? Training?
Makes me wonder if there are actually not many more of planes with those 30 something serials.
And if so, would that mean they're part of some special, small size unit? But what purpose could a 6 or so sized unit be for? Training?
They'll have more J-15s as the production continues; the CV-17 & CV-18 will need quite a few of them.
I'm not really sure, but my feeling tells me we are seeing in fact two different units - one for the NTC (Liaoning) at Huangdicun and one for the STC (Shandong) at Lingshui. Today, both are maybe not yet fully established (at least at Lingshui) and are based together with sharing mixed deployments, but for the future I assume all 01-24 + 30-35 are for the NTC (= 30 minus those crashed/lost/written off or about 28 J-15s), while all 6x/7x-serials are for the SCS, so that we will eventually see from no. 60 up to no. 87/88.
Why there is a cut or break between no. 24 and 30 - aka 6 more J-15s - I cannot explain ...
Maybe anyone of you has a more reasonable theory?