PLAN Carrier Strike Group and Airwing
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Re: Latest Varyag Pics
If you run across any, please post them here.
Perhaps so...then that simply means that both of those images are older and that is fine too...although I am hoping for newer pics of Varyag with this thread. I am sure some more will be forthcoming sometime soon.kikyo said:
If you run across any, please post them here.
Re: Latest Varyag Pics
Interesting post from AFM, I think Jeff has already seen this one:
I've just been informed by friends in the Brazilian Mavy that recently in the last months a high ranking delegation of the Chinese Navy (PLAN) toured the Brazilian aircraft carrier and made a great many questions regarding how we operated our CV, number of pilots on board, Air wing personel, and the procedures for training of the landing signals officers..
Could this be another tip that they are finally going to build and operate their own carriers..
The Brazilian Navy officer also said they were the "most interested and thorough foreign visitors to the São Paulo" since it was received by the Brazilian Navy
Tough and precise questions...
Regards, Hammer
And another one about China's interest in su-33
" CHINESE INTEREST IN Su-33
Chinese interest in aircraft carriers has entered an active phase, and a Chinese delegation visited MAKS'2005 to carefully study all the necessary technologies. A presentation of the Su-33 and Su- 27KUB (Su-33UB) shipborne fighters was specially arranged for the Chinese party, including a late-evening Su-27KUB demonstration flight during the show. The Su27KUB, which was not included in the official list of aircraft on display, was only present at MAKS for half a day. It was brought from Saki, Ukraine, where it is being tested, specifically for the purpose of being presented to the Chinese delegation.
At the beginning of August, before the MAKS exhibition, a Chinese delegation visited St Petersburg, where it listened to presentations by representatives of the Nevskoye PKB ship design bureau, the designer of Russian aircraft carriers, as well as to other companies cooperating with Nevskoye PKB. The Chinese also examined aircraft carrier equipment, including automatic landing systems and arresting devices. The Chinese probably visited also the Ukrainian shipyard in Mykolayiv, which has built all Soviet aircraft carries, including the Admiral Kuznetsov and Varyag.
The Russians have submitted a three-stage proposal with various dates of delivery for selling Su-33 shipborne fighters:
- present version of Su-33 as used by the Russian Navy, armed only with air-to-air missiles and intended for fleet air defence;
- modernised Su-33M version with avionics and weapons similar to that of Su-30MK2 shore-based fighters operated by the Chinese Navy, including Kh-31A antiship missiles;
- future advanced version of multirole shipborne fighter similar to the shore-based Su-35 fighter presently under development.
For the time being, the two-seat shipborne Su-27KUB is considered by the Chinese as a training aircraft only. "
Interesting post from AFM, I think Jeff has already seen this one:
I've just been informed by friends in the Brazilian Mavy that recently in the last months a high ranking delegation of the Chinese Navy (PLAN) toured the Brazilian aircraft carrier and made a great many questions regarding how we operated our CV, number of pilots on board, Air wing personel, and the procedures for training of the landing signals officers..
Could this be another tip that they are finally going to build and operate their own carriers..
The Brazilian Navy officer also said they were the "most interested and thorough foreign visitors to the São Paulo" since it was received by the Brazilian Navy
Tough and precise questions...
Regards, Hammer
And another one about China's interest in su-33
" CHINESE INTEREST IN Su-33
Chinese interest in aircraft carriers has entered an active phase, and a Chinese delegation visited MAKS'2005 to carefully study all the necessary technologies. A presentation of the Su-33 and Su- 27KUB (Su-33UB) shipborne fighters was specially arranged for the Chinese party, including a late-evening Su-27KUB demonstration flight during the show. The Su27KUB, which was not included in the official list of aircraft on display, was only present at MAKS for half a day. It was brought from Saki, Ukraine, where it is being tested, specifically for the purpose of being presented to the Chinese delegation.
At the beginning of August, before the MAKS exhibition, a Chinese delegation visited St Petersburg, where it listened to presentations by representatives of the Nevskoye PKB ship design bureau, the designer of Russian aircraft carriers, as well as to other companies cooperating with Nevskoye PKB. The Chinese also examined aircraft carrier equipment, including automatic landing systems and arresting devices. The Chinese probably visited also the Ukrainian shipyard in Mykolayiv, which has built all Soviet aircraft carries, including the Admiral Kuznetsov and Varyag.
The Russians have submitted a three-stage proposal with various dates of delivery for selling Su-33 shipborne fighters:
- present version of Su-33 as used by the Russian Navy, armed only with air-to-air missiles and intended for fleet air defence;
- modernised Su-33M version with avionics and weapons similar to that of Su-30MK2 shore-based fighters operated by the Chinese Navy, including Kh-31A antiship missiles;
- future advanced version of multirole shipborne fighter similar to the shore-based Su-35 fighter presently under development.
For the time being, the two-seat shipborne Su-27KUB is considered by the Chinese as a training aircraft only. "
Re: Latest Varyag Pics
If this is accurate...it really cements in my mind that the PPRC and PLAN are moving very distinctly forward with making the Varyag operational...right now it is the only thing that we know of that would fit such a scenario.
Now this is news with some real teeth in it. Thank you so much tphuang.tphuang said:
If this is accurate...it really cements in my mind that the PPRC and PLAN are moving very distinctly forward with making the Varyag operational...right now it is the only thing that we know of that would fit such a scenario.