SamuraiBlue
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And since we haven't seen any indicative proof we can't be certain, can we?
PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)
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Very interesting, my friend.
The areas behind the tracks could in fact be excavations to house catapult machinery.
This is yet another place we should carefully watch to see what the PL:AN is doing. If they put in place a catapult capability at their training facility it can only mean that they have probably been testing it elsewhere.
It would become an operation there at Huangdicun similar to Lakehurst, NJ, in the states.
It would certainly mean that the PLANB will have a CATOBAR carrier in the works. Perhaps after whatever is currently being constructed.
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Not for me at least. I believe others, like Popeye agree at this point that it is not 100% confirmed.
Likely perhaps at this point...but we need some more details to confirm it.
All I know it's a large ship. Anything else is speculation. as Jeff has stated many times..."Time will tell".
Um, no -- I'm not talking about indicative proof right now. I am speaking specifically around the subject of the overhanging sponsons. You have not acknowledged or accepted (or even disputed if you disagree) the fact that at this stage of construction, expecting the side overhanging sponsons to be mounted is not logical, given they have yet to even finish the hangar deck level yet.
If you really wish to use the overhanging sponsons as an arbitary yes/no line for determining whether it is a carrier, then that is fine -- I don't have an issue with it, but expecting it at this early stage of construction and then saying "it isn't there, therefore it cannot be a carrier" is pretty poor logic, don't you think?
The same pictures have been posted in the J-15 thread.
It's generally a good rule of thumb, that if one finds new pictures, to see if the relevant threads already have them.
SamuraiBlue
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When did PLAN planes start being able to take off without a ski jump from a carrier?
It's not a touch and go since it doesn't have it's arresting hook down either.
Blackstone
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In addition to what SamuraiBlue said above, when will we see pictures of J-15s taking off and landing with dummy munitions to simulate combat loads?
It is a touch and go -- if the hook was down, then it would be called a missed trap, a "bolter".
A touch and go is meant to allow a pilot to practice the landing maneuvre without actually landing... on a carrier, that means they would not put down the tailhook.
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