Shouldn't it be on the port side instead? And there are three large boxes.
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The guidance for visual approaches is the usual way on the port side, the guideance for instrument approaches (surveillance radar, localizer, glideslope, speed control, several cameras) will be installed on the starboard side, at the back of the island and at the runway centerline below the ramp.
thanks for the infor. I only know the mirrors/lights on the port side. I still have doubts though. The three boxes on Liaoning seems huge and "inappropriately" camouflaged in army color. Even they are instruments as you said, they look like temporary installment, hope more photos can show details.
Can you show me these equipment on a U.S. carrier?
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some of them, the biggest ones:
The Chinese may use mobile airforce equipment on their carrier, something like , because at this moment they have no carrierborn approach system.
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Nah, there are a couple of good sized fixed rear looking array on the aft of Liaoning for that role.
In the picture below (relevant part circled in red) -- if one traces the landing strip's central line down to the aft, you'll come across a distinctive rectangular array, and a second similar "vertical" array next to it.
I remember back when Liaoning was still being refitted, and the holes in the hull were cut out and equipped with arrays, that these arrays were speculated to be for landing approach.
Whatever the camoflauged modules on Liaoning is, we know that it shouldn't be essential to the aircraft carrier's function, because it was only there for a little while and we haven't seen it there in pictures and videos since (meaning if it were something as essential like instruments for landing, it should constantly be on the ship).
I think the camoflauged modules were merely some additional telemetry systems or testing equipment for the carrier's initial workup and have since been removed quite a while ago.
I sincerely doubt they were any DEW modulesl..
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Two antennas (localizer and glideslop) for a straight in approach is old-fashioned. It is used for over 50 years, civil and military. May be, they are experimenting with or something else and curved approaches?
Potentially, but I think the key point is that the camoflauged modules probably are not something essential to the carrier's function (like instruments and sensors to assist landings), but probably test equipment instead.
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There is some Camouflaged Boxes on the deck of CNS Liaoning (CV-16).
Anyone have an Idea?
Is that just 30mm Type 1130 CIWS, and HQ-10 Missiles?
Probably testing the equipment at sea to see how it would work?
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The distinctive shape only found on an aircraft carrier.
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