PLAN Carrier Strike Group and Airwing

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Equation said:

What's that square red button on that protective oxygen mask for...anyone knows?

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This is ah shutoff button to stop Oxygen flow!
There are two Systems for firefighting: the under-pressure and the over-pressure System.
While in the under-pressure System the firefighter has to create a under-pressure inside the mask by breathing in all the time to open a valve which Releases the Oxygen flow (valve is closing again), in the over-pressure System the Oxygen flow is all the time present, so you have all the time a small over-prssure inside the mask. By breathing in the pressure decrease and more Oxygen will flow into the mask to hold the pressure inside. Benefit of the overpressure System is that in case of a leaky mask the smoke is not able to get into the mask and the outcoming Oxygen is also alerting the firefighter that there is any leak (you can feel it on your Skin and possible also hear the flow).

So, in this case we can see a over-pressure System and the button is to close a valve inside which stops the Oxygen flow to take off the mask - otherwise the Oxygen would flow all the time while not wearing the mask like in this Situation in the photo.
By breathing in the first time the valve will automatically open again and the over-pressure System is active.

Re: PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme..News & Views

Some guy and his models

Re: PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme..News & Views

It's for his grandson. The story is here:

no_name said:

Some guy and his models

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It looks big enough to scale for 1/72 planes, and you can actually get remote controlled planes at that scale, although kind of expensive a about $100 per plane and so far I've only seen real world propeller model like spitfire.

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Dannhill said:

It's for his grandson. The story is here:

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My kind of people. LOL!

Here's a guy who built a 1/72 scale USS Enterprise supercarrier and an entire air wing of 1/72 scale models to go on it. Took him 20 years, and it is not plastic.

He scratch built and worked with local machine shops to make everything.

I'll stick to 1/350 scale!


And here's a video:

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no_name said:

Some guy and his models

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Talk about a doting grandpa! Hats off to the old man and his mates indeed!

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China shows off new aircraft carrier to US defence chief


Tokyo (AFP) - China will show off its new aircraft carrier to US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday, allowing the Pentagon chief a first-hand look at a symbol of the country's growing military prowess.


Hagel will kick off a three-day tour of China with a visit to the carrier at Yuchi naval base in Qingdao, the first foreigner allowed aboard the vessel by the often secretive Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), officials said.

The carrier visit was "significant" as Washington has tried to forge a dialogue with China's top brass to defuse tensions and prodded Beijing to be more open about its military, said a senior US defence official.

"We requested this and they agreed," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The carrier, the Liaoning, "symbolises for the PLA their ambition to project naval power," the official said.

The Liaoning was a Soviet-made warship based in Ukraine that the Chinese bought and refitted, completing the work in September 2012 in a symbolic milestone for the country's expanding military.

China also reportedly has started constructing the second of four planned aircraft carriers, amid plans to begin operating an air wing of about 30 planes off the Liaoning as early as next year.

Unlike American aircraft carriers, the Liaoning is not nuclear-powered and has a shorter range, and it has no catapult system for launching aircraft but merely an inclined ramp.

The Liaoning nevertheless reinforces the image of China as a military power with global reach and could be used in confrontations with smaller countries that have territorial disputes with Beijing, analysts say.

The carrier also coincides with major investments in submarines, anti-ship missiles and other hardware designed to bolster China's naval clout in an area once solely dominated by the American fleet.


- 'Great responsibilities' -


Before travelling to China, Hagel warned Beijing against unilateral action to resolve territorial disagreements with its smaller neighbours, drawing a parallel with Russia's incursion in Ukraine.

"You cannot go around and redefine boundaries, violate territorial integrity and sovereignty of nations by force, coercion and intimidation -- whether it's in small islands in the Pacific, or large nations in Europe," Hagel said on Sunday during a visit to Tokyo.

"So I want to talk to our Chinese friends about this."

He said he would talk to the Chinese about "respect for their neighbours" and that as "a great power," China has "great responsibilities."

His blunt comments underscored a tougher line in recent months by the US government on China's approach to territorial claims in the South China Sea and the East China Sea, after some Southeast Asian countries accused Beijing of intimidatory tactics.

While in Tokyo, Hagel promised to send two more missile defence ships to Japan and reaffirmed Washington's military treaty commitments, seeking to reassure its longtime ally as Tokyo grapples with a tense dispute with Beijing over islands in the East China Sea.

The US ships would join five Aegis missile defence vessels already stationed in the area, and were part of an American strategic "rebalance" to the Asia-Pacific, officials said.

Hagel's announcement follows the deployment of a second early warning US radar to Japan, P-8 maritime surveillance aircraft and plans to bring unmanned Global Hawk drones to the country.

Although Hagel said the US warships were being sent to help counter the threat posed by North Korea, the move also carried symbolic weight amid Japan's tense stand-off with China over the East China Sea.

Tokyo scrambled military aircraft last month after three Chinese planes flew near Japanese airspace, the latest confrontation in the dispute.

Re: J-15 Carrier Multirole Fighter thread

no_name said:

Basically China needs to convince other countries that military cooperation with them brings benefits, as Pakistan would certainly agree from their point of view. ...

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what about Brazil??

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Wrong carrier type, J15 wouldn't work from her deck.

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absolutely certainly? Can an airplane like the J-15 not be modified for a catapult take off? Above all if a catapult seems anyway for the next carrier generation intended ...