PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)

That means the catapult-capable J-15 should be almost complete as well.

bd popeye said:

This kind of stuff bothers me.. a lot..
In the link below is supposed to be Chinese steam catapult site..unless I read the translation incorrectly;

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The top half of the first photo maybe in China the rest of the photos are of NEAC Lakehurst NJ...see below Just zoom in and compare;

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Like Bltizo said, the picture is for comparsion only. The chinese caption below the pictures clearly stayed that's land-based US Navy shipboard catapult device Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station.

The point was that these structures look similar in both pics. Sina is not very reliable with accuracy of military news sometimes, but in this case they are just trying to prove the Chinese site is also catapult device testing center like the one in Lakehurst Naval Air Engineering Station.

Thanks guys for the clarification....I just hope that one day that google translate can really translate Chinese...

test bd said:

Thanks guys for the clarification....I just hope that one day that google translate can really translate Chinese...

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Try Bing they're a little better.

asif iqbal said:

2 x carriers and 48 x J15

Very good naval aviation

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yeapp and it would be more powerful than most countries navy and air force combined (outside top 15-20)

Deino said:

Is this some guesswork or already a rumour that I missed ?

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It's a working title until the official name was announced.

Remember way back before ex-Varyag was named Liaoning, many people called her "Shilang", the name of Qing general/admiral who took Taiwan, the last strong hold of Ming dynasty?

lcloo said:

Remember way back before ex-Varyag was named Liaoning, many people called her "Shilang", the name of Qing general/admiral who took Taiwan, the last strong hold of Ming dynasty?

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The PLAN doesn't name line ships after people.

Only training ships gets named after people, which is why that suggestion was floated at all - since it was suggested that the Liaoning might be inducted as a "training carrier".

However, with the PLAN naming her the Liaoning, it means she is a fully combat capable ship of the line, and thus any subsequent, new built carriers would also be ships of the line and not training ships. Thus they would be names after provinces, and not people.

It would be very interesting if they name a carrier "Taiwan" one day, although I think the PLAN would resist until after Taiwan has reunited with the rest of China before doing that. But if that day ever comes, you can bet the very next carrier to be launched will be named "Taiwan".

Superconducting electromagnetic catapult. Note the J-15s.

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