PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)

Is there really movies or photos of the Russian carrier with six aircraft parked on the bow? Somehow I have the impression that the Chinese use their aircraft carrier more effective than the Russians.

Jeff Head said:

Six J-15s aboard Liaoning. I predicted this late last year and wondered whether we would see it this year.

But here it is:

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according to chinese forum, they counted total 8 J-15 in the video footage:
100、103、105、106、107、109、113、114

Another module added today on 001A. No photo yet.

I suspect the long lead items on the definite commitment to build the new Chinese carrier with specific long lead items were made around 2008. That was when China first made specific public commentaries about the need for a nation like China to build carriers. That was really not an opinion piece but really meant as an oblique announcement that carrier building is underway.

Based on other information, the formal contract to built the hull was probably not issued at the time, and two ship yards were still in competition for the contract.
The basic hull design was no doubt complete by 2008, but the detailed engineering design suitable for cutting steel was probably not completed until the shipyard was selected and could participate in finalizing the last details needed by the fabrication technique. I think the yard was selected around 2010, the blue prints finished a year later, and
The fabrication of the first hull component probably started around beginning of 2012.

This article should be obvious to everybody that followed closely the carrier program. But still considering China never built or operated Carrier and has to do everything from scratch with no help from outside. 4 or 5 year after launch of Liaoning, she will have operational carrier in time for the new carrier.That is extremely fast. A great day for Chinese navy

China says carrier operations improving as navy chief visits
China is getting better and better at operating fighter jets from its lone aircraft carrier, with confident pilots and an increasing number of flying operations, the military's newspaper said on Friday as China's navy chief visited the ship.

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China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) navy soldiers march at Tiananmen Square during the military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing September 3, 2015. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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  BEIJING: China is getting better and better at operating fighter jets from its lone aircraft carrier, with confident pilots and an increasing number of flying operations, the military's newspaper said on Friday as China's navy chief visited the ship.
  
  The Liaoning, a Soviet-era ship bought from Ukraine in 1998 and refitted in China, has long been a symbol of China's naval build-up.
  
  China wants to develop an ocean-going "blue water" navy capable of defending the world's second largest economy's growing interests as it adopts a more assertive stance in territorial disputes with neighbours in the South China and East China seas.
  
  The official People's Liberation Army Daily said in a front-page editorial that the carrier had achieved "obvious progress" in raising its combat effectiveness since the start of the year.
  
  The number of aircraft based on the carrier and the number of daily flights had both increased, while "many" pilots had qualified to operate the Shenyang J-15 fighter jet on the carrier, the report said.
  
  The navy had therefore made a "key breakthrough" in shifting from the testing phase to being able to operate ship-borne aircraft, the newspaper said.
  
  Chinese nay chief Wu Shengli visited the ship this week, meeting pilots, sitting in an aircraft cockpit and answering questions about how China could speed up the operational capability of the ship, the report said.
  
  It said the drills Wu oversaw happened somewhere in the Bohai Sea, off northeastern China.
  
  The Liaoning has already taken part in operations in the South China Sea, where China has competing claims with Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Brunei.
  
  Successfully operating the 60,000-tonne Liaoning is the first step in what state media and some military experts believe will be the deployment of domestically built carriers by 2020.
  
  Taiwan's Defence Ministry said in September China was building two aircraft carriers that would be the same size as the Liaoning.
  
  Little is known about China's aircraft carrier programme, which is a state secret, although Chinese state media have hinted new vessels are being built.
  
  The Pentagon said in a report earlier this year Beijing could build multiple aircraft carriers over the next 15 years.
  
  (Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Paul Tait

Taking shape! Said to be 9th module.

Enhancing the above photo

Wow picture quality is getting worst and worst these days

Latest video of J-15's landing/taking-off on Liaoning.

Merry Christmas to all.

Nice video. Very nice. Good to see something newer from CV-16. The crew members I saw on the roof looked professional. Excellent.

I'd like to know how they keep that flight deck in such a pristine condition. I mean really. It always looks new. Amazing in fact.