...and there you go.
Does not take long (most of the time) for someone on SD to come up with the exact nature of what we are looking at.
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Does not take long (most of the time) for someone on SD to come up with the exact nature of what we are looking at.
asif iqbal
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Yeah I have the same feeling we could expect some big deck action from here on now
Fighters and helos all in the mix and formation sailing too
Fighters and helos all in the mix and formation sailing too
Blackstone
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It'd also be great to see some strike mission videos from Liaoning's J-15s.
and a nice formation overflight!
Those planes couldn't have flown off the Liaoning.
I haven't seen evidence of flight operation while Liaoning is in company of the task force (in other words actual operational training as oppose to conversion training). I imagine that will take another 1-2 years.
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kwaigonegin
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I don't think Jeff was implying they were but rather hoping that when he sees some photo op in the future again it will be. Besides in that picture it's quite evident those are not Flanker airframes but clearly JH-7s in formation
Jeff did say that they are JH-7 which are land based in his comments... check the link. I think he meant the photo show aircraft overflight off the carrier. not that they took off from it.
The whole point of the photo and the discussion was precisely that those aircraft, JH-7s, did not fly off of the Liaoning.
You are taking the single picture out of context and also not placing it in reference to the discussion it was posted as a part of.
I was speaking to AFB, who indicated that when the Liaoning goes out this time, with what we hope are 4-6 J-15s, he hopes that they will do a formation flight of the Liaoning aircraft.
I then responded that and said, "this time" (meaning the new exercise), that they would need to actually fly off of the carrier, as opposed to "last time," when they had a fly over of land based aircraft as a part of the photo op and exercise.
I showed that picure of the last time the Liaoning was out to show that during those exercises a flight of land based JH-7s is what flew over.
But this is all something that could have been deduced by simply reading a few of the posts, rather than jumping to a conclusion that was never meant. Anyhow, apparently other posters got that point. Sorry if I was not clear.
So...of course those aircraft pictured in my post couldn't have flown off the Liaoning. They are land based JH-7 aircraft, which was my point.
Precisely.
...and at the link I provided, I did say this about that particular picture:
Jeff Head Link said:
Anyhow, I felt I had made it clear what I meant. Sorry if there was any confusion.
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On a kind of side note,
Do anyone know if there are take off assist rockets available for the J15?
Yes, it is a messy, imperfect, lower tempo option, but it should be able to put a fully loaded strike fighter into the air which will help ramped carriers achieve more strike capacity; and take off assist rockets had been around for some time...
Do anyone know if there are take off assist rockets available for the J15?
Yes, it is a messy, imperfect, lower tempo option, but it should be able to put a fully loaded strike fighter into the air which will help ramped carriers achieve more strike capacity; and take off assist rockets had been around for some time...
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