To be more accurate-"what difference China speed makes!!" Look at the reaction time of the rescue effort initiated by the Chinese gov't during the recent Xizang-Tibet earhquake -"Chubby Girls" Y20's were in the air within 30 minutes with aid/personnel.Love itWhat a difference a little over a year makes. From a few joined keel modules to her launch, the speed is impressive.
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Type 076 LHD/LHA discussion
- Thread starter banjex
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For as long as I can remember, every time China makes an engineering accomplishment for example:
2003 - Shenzhou 5 mission.........First Chinese man in space
2008 - Beijing to Tianjin line........China's first HSR rail line
2011 - J-20 stealth jet fighter.......First flight
There was no shortage of "snide remarks" coming from Western media sources stating China:
a) copy
b) borrow
c) stole
the technology, or is simply replicating the West's previous engineering accomplishments.
I think the most unique aspect of the Type 076 warship is not its EM catapult or the fact it's the largest amphibious ship.....I haven't heard any "snide remarks" coming from Western media sources. It's as if all the hecklers in the room have decided to be quiet and sit down. Folks I think we've entered an inflection point between Chinese and Western relations.
If someone could produce a image where J15 or J35 fighter silhouettes are placed over the aircraft parking areas on the Type 76 flight deck and/or lifts, we might be able to see if operating heavy manned fighters from it is realistically possible. It looks pretty tight to me.Just to confirm, the 076 does have arresting gear, right? If that is so, and coupled with the EMALS, that would be an elegant way of bypassing building a VTOL fighter, since at least the J-35 should be able to operate off it (in addition to the various UCAV/CCAs) ? This way the 076 would oppose head-on (in terms of capability i mean) the american LHAs with their F-35Bs. And while having the J-50 operate off it as theorized some pages back would be a bit premature for now, a future 076A variant (let's call it that) might as well be able to do that too.
I think there has been a bit of shock and awe in the last quarter with the dual carrier performance, zhuhai airshow, and mao bday surprises. From my social media obeservation, only the bottom feeders are still harping on "copying"
So they are basically like die-hard flat-earth believer equivalent of defense enthusiasts.
Well, to borrow a line from old Joe,I think Americans/westerners are finally realizing that China finally catching up enough that they can actually innovate and come up with radical new designs is actually a bad thing for them. In another decade, Americans will wish to go back to the days where they could claim that China copied everything from them. We already saw that with the Russians, not happy that China copied so much of their aerospace tech back in the 90s/00s, but even more unhappy when Chinese aerospace completely surpassed them.
"You can't believe in competition only when you are winning."