PLAN Carrier Strike Group and Airwing

MIGleader

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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. To make the engines of elevators run was expansive, and not needed by a amuesement ship. These investments is only need for recurrence using.

or a hull that was supposed to be scrapped, but it never happened
 

Jeff Head

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

MIGleader said:
or a hull that was supposed to be scrapped

I don't believe it was ever intended to be scrapped or made into a casino.

Sort of like that Japanese DDH designation...that's what it took to get it over to the PRC.
 

MIGleader

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

Jeff Head said:
I don't believe it was ever intended to be scrapped or made into a casino.

Sort of like that Japanese DDH designation...that's what it took to get it over to the PRC.

the chinese went through alot of effort to buy and get varyag to dalian. i dont think they would waste it as a training vessel or museum
 

Gollevainen

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proplem is that theres little or no change to get it translated to finnish in your resources...:(

but these agents...i came cross to them whit foreing literature, but in Finnish culture, they just seems not exictence. How did you get one? Do you have to know one from before or...?
 

Gollevainen

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Re: Latest Varyag Pics

Well, the Argentines and the Brazillians do have some carrier arrested landing and catapault launch experience...but it is limited when compared to the US...or, for that matter, to the French

well I was refering their political ideologyes and opinions. Hard to imagine somebody fighting decades against all kinds of Guevera-followers and sat in some junta could suddenly help openly communist nation to wage (possible) war agaisnt everything that they have believed for their whole life...
 

Jeff Head

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

MIGleader said:
the chinese went through alot of effort to buy and get varyag to dalian. i dont think they would waste it as a training vessel or museum

I agree...although, to a certain extent, it will begin its new life with the PLAN as a training vessel. Since they have no aircraft carrier experience, by default, they will spend several years training with it.
 

PLABUDDY

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

Jeff Head said:
I agree...although, to a certain extent, it will begin its noew life with the PLAN as a training vessel. Since they have no aircraft carrier experience, by default, they will spend several years training with it.
How long by your estimation do u think the PLAN will use Varyag as a training ship?
 

Jeff Head

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Re: Latest Varyag Pics

Gollevainen said:
well I was refering their political ideologyes and opinions...

From an ideological perspective, I see your point and agree. But not all are as committed and some of those can and will be be bought. It has always been that way...on both sides of the arguement.
 

Jeff Head

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

PLABUDDY said:
How long by your estimation do u think the PLAN will use Varyag as a training ship?

It will take years before the PLAN is truly proficient at carrier operations...in that sense, it will alwyas be training.

I believe the Varyag is an intitial, bridging step for the PLAN. A strong step because the Varyag is a big, very capable ship. They will use the Varyag to get the experience and expertise, while showing the flag with it (using it politically) and as a latent threat to other, smaller nations to not fool around with the PRC.

In the mean time, newer, indegenous carriers will probably be developed so that when they come out, the PLAN will have just that much more experience to begin with and can use them more effectively.
 

Jeff Head

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

Gollevainen said:
How did you get one? Do you have to know one from before or...?

Another, fairly well published author, saw and read my books and then referred me. But that agent was more focused on the non-fiction genre and little came of it.
 
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