PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)
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asif iqbal
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Oh yes that's the one I meant Z8 is old type helo 
Now THIS is a GREAT picture! Long awaited.
There are six J-15s top side (one just taking off), but there is a seventh that you can just see on the forward elevator. Also, a Z-18 helo back towards the back end of the angled deck, and a Ka-27 helo on the forward part of the angled deck. Nice.
As we predicted, they are exercising more aircraft on the carrier. I am sure we will see eight at some point this year now...if not more.
So, SEVEN J-15s confirmed aboard the Liaoning at once now. Outstanding!
There are six J-15s top side (one just taking off), but there is a seventh that you can just see on the forward elevator. Also, a Z-18 helo back towards the back end of the angled deck, and a Ka-27 helo on the forward part of the angled deck. Nice.
As we predicted, they are exercising more aircraft on the carrier. I am sure we will see eight at some point this year now...if not more.
So, SEVEN J-15s confirmed aboard the Liaoning at once now. Outstanding!
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Blackstone
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Very nice! PLAN deck aviation is beginning to catch up to the Indian Navy. Still got a long ways to go though.
Wow.. what we've been waiting to see.. now what I want to see is what are they doing on that flight deck? What training is taking place?
Any simulated operational situations taking place? Or just cats and traps? How about those helos? Doing SAR and ASW perhaps..or maybe even AEW.....
In the next couple of years the PLAN may have a fully operational CV.
Equation
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But way ahead of both Japan the Taiwan regime though.
Ultra
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But way ahead of both Japan the Taiwan regime though.
Probably not Japan, Japan do have aircraft carriers....of the sort...
Their Hyūga-class helicopter destroyers and Hyūga-class helicopter destroyers can both carry F-35s. Plus Japan did have carrier operational combat experience - one of the most extensive in the past during WWII (up against USN) although they all got wipe out.....
yuxiaochen
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sorry guys but this photo is actually a CG done by 西葛西造舰, he has done alot of top of the class CGs of PLAN ships including 055 and future aircraft carrier. he has made a claim on weibo about this photo being his and that it was made in 2013.
Drat, I suspected it might be so -- his CGIs are always very photo-realistic, especially the more recent ones. I thought I'd seen most of his carrier CGIs, which is why I'd gave this one the benefit of doubt.
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