PLAN Carrier Strike Group and Airwing

Re: What will the 1st PLAN Carrier Battle Group (CBG) look like?

as I know, the Varjag - 2 years ago - was a hull to be scrapped. To make the engines of elevators run was expansive, and not needed by a amuesement ship. These investments is only need for recurrence using.

Re: Latest Varyag Pics

the US and French will not help China, and arrested landing of Brazil or Argentines is not so much different to arrested landing of the russians.
China studied the western (australian) optical landing system of melbourne, so - may be - the installed this system an board of Varjag.
Also the traffic at the deck to me seems not to be so different betw. STOAR and Catapult launching.
And operating of CBGs including cooperation to Planes, DDGs, Subs and .... is nearly the same job.
The southamericans will pretty shure have some more experience as the russians for that.

Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

interesting to hear...not to admiting anything....(you didn't hear anything, i DIDN'T say that the was a bit writter's fault in myself... )

so this is a full-leght novel...hmm and did you mentioned it was selfpublished? if you mind, it would be interesting to hear more of this book and writtings in general, tough perhaps in another topic?...tough it still doesen't mean i have any abitious towards writting...nor at least you didn't hear it from me...

Re: What will the 1st PLAN Carrier Battle Group (CBG) look like?

Sczepan said:

as I know, the Varjag - 2 years ago - was a hull to be scrapped. These investments is only need for recurrence using.

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I agree.

Re: Latest Varyag Pics

Sczepan said:

The southamericans will pretty shure have some more experience as the russians for that.

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Depends on their budgets over the years...how much training they were able to afford.

The Russians are also not able to afford a lot of training and exercises for their carrier now...but theirs is a much more modern carrier and it is of the same class ship as the Varyag.

I believe the PLAN will get much more help and milage from the Russian advisors...but I am sure they will use whatever expertise they can get to help boost their own learning curve, South American, French, Indian, etc..

Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

Gollevainen said:

it still doesen't mean i have any abitious towards writting...nor at least you didn't hear it from me...

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Hehehe...it was a lot of fun...but it was also a lot of work. A LOT of work over about a four year period.

There are five full, length novels in the series. When I was completed I put out one very large hardback novel with smaller type print that contains all five.

I used this company to make the books and distribute them. They were very reasonable. They get them out to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and quite a few other online places. LightningSource is owned by a very large book wholesaler, Ingram.

I did all of the formatting, including the cover art, and then converted an MSWord document to Adobe (using a full version of Adobe Acrobat and the distiller), which is the format they require. I also released them all as eBooks in both the Adobe Reader and MS Reader formats.

With a company like LIGHTNIONGSOURCE around, virtually anyone can self publish and then have the material out on Amazon. Of course...it is left to you to do your own advertising. Most of mine is word of mouth through various forums, friends, relatives, etc.

Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

did you ever planned to try and offer you book to any big (or should we say traditional) publisher?

and tough still not admitting anything...does this publisher allow just anything being published or do they have some sort of standarts for the general level of the books?

Re: Latest Varyag Pics

Jeff Head said:

.... I am sure they will use whatever expertise they can get to help boost their own learning curve, South American, French, Indian, etc..

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I agree.

Re: My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

Gollevainen said:

did you ever planned to try and offer you book to any big (or should we say traditional) publisher? ...does this publisher allow just anything being published or do they have some sort of standarts for the general level of the books?

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I had an agent for a while and he shopped it around...but it became clear it was more of "who you know" than "what you know" for an unknown like me...and I didn't know anyone.

So, I just did it myself.

LightningSource is very professional. They are not a publisher, just a "Print on Demand" distributor. They expect you to be an operating company (so I set up my own, one-man business) and they have agreements that you sign.

The result is I have been able to sell several thosuand copies on my own.

I believe if it ever did get the exposure...it would sell tens of thousands...but being the author, of course I would think that, hehehe.

Re: Latest Varyag Pics

Sczepan said:

the US and French will not help China, and arrested landing of Brazil or Argentines is not so much different to arrested landing of the russians.
China studied the western (australian) optical landing system of melbourne, so - may be - the installed this system an board of Varjag.
Also the traffic at the deck to me seems not to be so different betw. STOAR and Catapult launching.
And operating of CBGs including cooperation to Planes, DDGs, Subs and .... is nearly the same job.
The southamericans will pretty shure have some more experience as the russians for that.

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the frecnch? the offered to sell china a carrier in 95!