PLAN Carrier Strike Group and Airwing

F40Racer said:

I'm curious about the flight deck configurations of future Chinese carriers. If PLAN choose build indiginous large carriers with more than 60,000 tons of displacement, I wonder if it will have a ski jump ramp like the Varyag or will it have steam catapults like the US carriers.

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F40Racer said:

I'm curious about the flight deck configurations of future Chinese carriers. If PLAN choose build indiginous large carriers with more than 60,000 tons of displacement, I wonder if it will have a ski jump ramp like the Varyag or will it have steam catapults like the US carriers.

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F40Racer said:

I'm curious about the flight deck configurations of future Chinese carriers. If PLAN choose build indiginous large carriers with more than 60,000 tons of displacement, I wonder if it will have a ski jump ramp like the Varyag or will it have steam catapults like the US carriers.

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Jeff Head said:

Yes indeed, something bigger is possible. One of the concepts the US has studied is the Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) which can move (albeit slowly) to its area of operations and then change its position once there. Very big...like 5,000 feet long and representative of a true offshore airbase with full facilities, as well as a provisioning point for Amphibiuos assault or other naval task forces. Depicted here:

But something like this is a long, long way off for the PLAN, and is only being studied in the US, probably never implemented

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Jeff Head said:

Yes indeed, something bigger is possible. One of the concepts the US has studied is the Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) which can move (albeit slowly) to its area of operations and then change its position once there. Very big...like 5,000 feet long and representative of a true offshore airbase with full facilities, as well as a provisioning point for Amphibiuos assault or other naval task forces. Depicted here:

But something like this is a long, long way off for the PLAN, and is only being studied in the US, probably never implemented

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Jeff Head said:

Yes indeed, something bigger is possible. One of the concepts the US has studied is the Mobile Offshore Base (MOB) which can move (albeit slowly) to its area of operations and then change its position once there. Very big...like 5,000 feet long and representative of a true offshore airbase with full facilities, as well as a provisioning point for Amphibiuos assault or other naval task forces. Depicted here:

But something like this is a long, long way off for the PLAN, and is only being studied in the US, probably never implemented

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