PLAN Photos & Videos

We need to fix this thing about only five photos per post and the delay between post needs to be shortened to 30 seconds..just sayin'!.

Photos taken on May 19th thru 21st, 2015 shows the China-Russia "Joint Sea-2015" drills. Chinese and Russian naval forces on Thursday ended their joint military exercises in the Mediterranean. The "Joint Sea-2015" drills, involving six Russian and three Chinese ships, were staged in four phases, focusing on maritime defense, replenishment and escorting. It was the fourth since joint China-Russia sea drills began in 2012. (Xinhua/Xiong Libing)

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More of the joint China Russian Mediterranean drills..

Last batch of the Mediterranean drills..

Chinese-Russian joint anti-terrorist action

Now THIS is a GREAT picture! Long awaited.

There are six J-15s top side (one just taking off), but there is a seventh that you can just see on the forward elevator. Also, a Z-18 helo back towards the back end of the angled deck, and a Ka-27 helo on the forward part of the angled deck. Nice.

As we predicted, they are exercising more aircraft on the carrier. I am sure we will see eight at some point this year now...if not more.

So, SEVEN J-15s confirmed aboard the Liaoning at once now. Outstanding!

yuxiaochen said:

sorry guys but this photo is actually a CG done by 西葛西造舰, he has done alot of top of the class CGs of PLAN ships including 055 and future aircraft carrier. he has made a claim on weibo about this photo being his and that it was made in 2013.

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Oh well...if that is so, then it took us all in.

I guess we wanted it too badly.

But it is a very good CGI...although admittedly the escorts looked somewhat fishy. I figured the aircraft were so well done on the deck...oh well.

yuxiaochen said:

sorry guys but this photo is actually a CG done by 西葛西造舰, he has done alot of top of the class CGs of PLAN ships including 055 and future aircraft carrier. he has made a claim on weibo about this photo being his and that it was made in 2013.

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Actually I still don't think so ... if You compare to this CG below also made by him it looks much clearer, cleaner, much more perfect than the image posted yesterday shot out from a helicopter in flight. It has the same imperfections like the latest J-15-images ... but maybe I simply want it too much to be real.

Therefore ... tell him please to post this CG !

this is him on weibo claiming that the CG was done in 2013 to celebrate Liaoning's first fleet sail

Deino said:

Actually I still don't think so ... if You compare to this CG below also made by him it looks much clearer, cleaner, much more perfect than the image posted yesterday shot out from a helicopter in flight. It has the same imperfections like the latest J-15-images ... but maybe I simply want it too much to be real.

Therefore ... tell him please to post this CG !

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here's a close up of the CG

yuxiaochen said:

sorry guys but this photo is actually a CG done by 西葛西造舰, he has done alot of top of the class CGs of PLAN ships including 055 and future aircraft carrier. he has made a claim on weibo about this photo being his and that it was made in 2013.

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I think what made us all fall for this CG is that it shows the kind of activity we expected to see by now after seeing all the images about 2 years ago.

It seems to me that after the first rush of videos and images we only got to see "replays" of old exercises and haven't really seen what has been happening on the carrier for the last year or so.

So here is my question: do you think the carrier is doing this kind of exercises (involving ~6 fighters and some helicopters on the flight deck at the same time) and the PLAN just keeps it secret or are they still at a stadium were they only start some prototype jets at a time ?