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The EM launch power system based on AC vs DC reminds me of electric war that took place in US back then between 2 electrical inventors except this time it's between US vs China

Stick to facts talk, this forum is not for you to spew personal hatred loser. If you cannot stay neutral and stick to ethics, please resign from moderator post Thanks for reminding me on Ford class covering its EMALS. Thanks for reminding on USS Ford Class when launched. Guess it's for the...

That's the maximum limit for an aircraft to take off. An aircraft will only crawl on runway if you loaded heavier than the specified maximum take off weight for example max take off weight for J-15B at 72,000lb, you loaded it to 76,000lb then it might crawl on runway unable to go airborne.

F/A-18 is the most reliable & maintenance efficient fighter today. It's like Toyota of the sky, they would keep flying and flying able to delver weapons to destination and back. You have few aircraft manufactured in 1996 F/A-18C, F-16C, Su-27SK, Mig-29S all bought new at that time in your...

Just for sea trials and ensure all the equipment on Type 002 operational & working but not for long when Type 003 entering active service along with J-15B, J-35 fighters having the EMALS proven reliable. These J-15A on Shandong carriers aren't really new but from existing inventory by the way...

Tell this to USAF, USN, IAF pilots that have been to war for real, they'll laugh at you. An F-16C for example has 6900lb internal fuel tank and able to carry 13,500lb payload with G-limit reduced to 6G when fully loaded. When really necessary & being overwhelmed, the F-16C could take off on full...

Everyone is waiting for that. If the EMALS is efficient able to propel heavy fully loaded on maximum fuel & payload J-15B at over 72,000lb into the air easily, expect J-15B aerodynamic to be reduced for better low speed maneuverability and stability making carrier approach speed ideal and safest...

I can only think of 3 reasons why are they covering the rail launch with boxes, either: 1) they don't work sort of incomplete under development but needed to launch the carrier early 2) the rails design are advanced top secret technology that they don't want others to see and know how they...

For aircraft carriers, every number might represent 1 ship because it's a flagship and grand as in highest status. Also the number 4 is not nice in Chinese pronunciation so out of superstitious of bad luck, there might be no Type 004 being skipped to 005. Number 4, 14 are bad luck.

I was comparing the J-16 against J-11B color marking. Also J-10C vs J-10A color marking.

Charles De Gaulle is slow and small but it could propel a fully loaded aircraft to take off safely thanks to CATOBAR. French made the carrier mainly to protect its colony abroad to the south not far away and French did not expect to fight powerful enemy especially there's US and NATO alliance...

I clearly mentioned Type 004 and 005 will most likely be sister ships to Type 003 which means Type 004 and 005 will be Type 003 with different numbers to distinguish. Like US aircraft carriers, CVN-68 USS Nimitz, CVN-69 USS Eisenhower, CVN-70 USS Carl Vinson are all the same ships but different...

Do you see any J-15A being assigned to Type 002 Shandong class aircraft carrier so far? None, because as what the PLA Major General from Jiangsu province told me, he said China would not waste money building something that is not good when there's something better. Such as when there's Type 003...

Good that they got rid off the ugly black radome, light grey matches the tone better. J-16 and J-10C are ideal for air to ground search and destroy especially in taking out enemy tanks, troops emplacement, structures, ships & SEAD wild weasel operations taking out enemy SAM/AAA. Stealth fighters...

Type 004 and 005 will most likely be sister ship to Type 003 so they won't be nuclear powered. China needed more carriers in short time so by the time nuclear powered aircraft carrier completed R & D entering service, it would be Type 006, 007 or 008 already. Charles De Gaulle is not better...

Shandong aircraft carrier is now VTOL & drone carrier as per this website article: https://eurasiantimes.com/chinas-plan-leaked-a-fleet-of-vtol-drones-spotted-on-chinese-pla-navy/?amp Just like what I've posted earlier, PLAN won't be building anymore J-15A, not for Liaoning and never for Type...

If it's for fancy demonstration, that explains reasonably. Cheaper to launch them too than a single air to ground missile. Like the Wu Jing military movie, he hired PLA to fire rockets instead of missiles to keep cost low. Besides, the unguided rockets and bombs are obsolete in war nowadays...

The F-35 on full internal payload wasn't considered multi-role fighter that US military demonstration showed more F-35s required to carry out air strikes with those on air to ground role carrying only air to ground payload internally while those flying escort carry all AMRAAM internally. US has...

Not just MANPADS but any modern AAA-SAM system such as Pantsir S1, 2S6, Mk15 Phalanx CIWS, tactical SAM would pose serious threat to 4th generation & 5th generation fighters under 1.5Nm the effective range of rockets. In fact yes, any 4th generation fighters or newer still carrying unguided...

If the J-35 doesn't have sidebay, it will not be multi-role fighter. China missiles are wider and less compact compared to US counterpart that builds more smaller diameter or foldable fins missiles & bombs to squeeze into the F-22 and F-35 smaller internal bays. The F-22 is solely air to air...