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Agree, also the recycling plant is where obsolete JH-7 & J-8 should belong. JH-7 is also seriously underpowered with numbers of crashes. It's more of liability flying coffin for pilots when war happens. The poor maneuverability would make it difficult to evade and spoof incoming missiles. It...

Why do they bother to build conventional Type 002 carrier if they have both steam catapult and EMALS technology? Ski jump launch carrier, the J-15 can't fill more than 15,000lb of internal fuel and carries only air to air missiles or 2x anti-ship missiles to keep maximum take off weight below...

Not to say the J-15 with pulse doppler radar is entirely incapable. Only not as good as AESA in detection, tracking, ECCM against US advanced ECM, more manual work, slower response. US will be flying latest fighters with AESA if they are up against China. J-15 as maritime fighters will be...

Seems like this amphibious assault ship will be ready soon. What will be added to flight deck and well deck? Some WZ10, WZ19 attack helicopters, WZ20 ASW. Then in well deck amphibious IFV, no Zubir hovercraft?

You're posting this in conjunction of my post on getting rid of the J-8? ,

PLAN carrier is still waiting to confirm whether their next carrier could get catapult or EMALS ready. Ski jump is just not ideal for fighters on full load launch. That's why I call these J-15 on carrier still stuck with sea trial and training. They are pending for future to fix. If what you...

F-111G/F has even better range on internal fuel alone flying at low level supersonic that F-15E can't match. Yet US phased out the F-111F that could pull more than 5G better turn rate than J-8 & JH-7. Reason being when deployed to war out of sudden spotted and pursued by enemy fighters will be...

Just get rid of all those obsolete J-7, J-8, JH-7 old obsolete junk flying coffin that will only be shot down if flown against US. The H-8 old Tu-16 Badger too should retire. US F/A-18E/F would splash it out of the sky before it could get into missile effective range of US naval fleet. Just come...

In case the island is not enough and avoid damaging corals, that'll shut those environmentalists up. Concrete carrier is tougher and easier to land/take off compared to current PLAN carrier that can't get catapult launch ready. A large mobile airport platform is good enough for conventional take...

I said technology derived from IL-76 out of reverse engineering. Antonov is desperate for business and China should buy aircrafts such as AN-72 Coaler, AN-225 Mriya and fund some of their new airlifter project to reverse engineer.

J-15 is still on sea trial and at risk of crashing from failed launch. J-15 will only be fitted with old radar and engine until there's good launch system for carrier being truly functional. Why is it so difficult for China to come up with catapult launch that has been around in 50's that even...

Y20 is newer ofcourse better than the old IL-76 It copied some design cue and features from C-17 to improve lift. Nothing more. Ukraine is hit with economic downturns and won't hesitate to sell technology to China. While Antonov is still open to offer, China should quickly buy technology for...

China can't create catapult that already existed during 60's? Even French old Clemenceau carrier been using catapult launch for old etendard

That's probably concrete carrier like concrete battleship made by US during WW2. Not a bad idea having a large concrete carrier towed to Spratlys for South China Sea defense.

I remember you mentioned better paint coating to withstand sea salt. As for the radar, thought it's been using AESA all these while. Or is it because of still under testing and carrier trial, they fitted old pulse doppler radar from J11A/B temporarily until they are fit for active sea patrol...

What are the improvement on batch 3 J-15? It has been more than a year since J-15 conducting rail launch on mock flight deck. Do you prefer EMALS or catapult launch? I prefer steam catapult because it's mechanical and easier to fix.

Y20 made with technology reverse engineered from IL-76, don't expect it to match C-17 Globemaster III that could carry 2x M-1A2SEP. Since Ukraine breakaway and owned AN-226 Mriya Cossack, China should pay Ukraine for the AN-226 technology buyout to come up with true heavy airlifter

Look at US conventional aircraft carrier USS America class, they don't need nuclear reactor for for the catapult launch. Only EMALS required nuclear reactor to generate electricity for the magnetic rail launch. Why is it so difficult for China to come up with steam catapult?

Good, should focus on J-10C production, need to phase out all old obsolete J-7/8. Should replace all old JH-7 with J-16 too in order to qualify modern air force status.

Any idea what is the maximum dry & afterburning thrust WS10 can it tune? Dry 20,000lb & 31,000lb with afterburner? Or 22,000lb & 33,000lb respectively? Empty weight 42,000lb Gross weight 71,000lb (larger internal fuel) F22 dry thrust 26,000lb & 35,000lb with afterburner giving it high thrust...