CV-16 Liaoning - Type 001 Aircraft Carrier News & Discussions

[monitor]

Haven't seen these pics before: Carrier Varyag was towed into Dalian port in March 2002, three years later, the rebuilding started.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

But this load out or configuration simply does not make any sense in terms op operation: Where should a landing J-15 come in ???

If You go by simply space on deck You could surely fit some more but then it would be even more stupid.

I really don't understand why fan-boys like these images so much?

Deino

Well there is this impression that even US carriers pack the landing areas with planes and use the forward catapults to launch. The reality is the front is usually packed with planes leaving the rear ship catapults and landing area open.

 

[Deino]

Quite a good video ...

 

[Deino]

Air Wing (at least in that image)
5x J-15
2× Z-18J AEW
2× Z-18F ASW
2× Z-9S SAR
1× Z-18 VIP
1× Z-8JH

 

[yusheng]

 

[samsara]

CV-16 Liaoning CBG on drill in the West Pacific

Bombers, AEW a/c & fighters fly through the Miyako Strait, conduct exercise with the far sea training flotilla in the Western Pacific today. — dafeng cao (@xinfengcao) March 2, 2017

 

[grey boy 2]

 

[Deino]

Very nice images of the Liaoning's home port Qingdao-Jiaonan

 

[samsara]

Very rare photos taken in May, 2003:
Carrier Varyag moored at Dalian port.

https://twitter.com/x/status/845283182966550528

WHO the sane mind might imagine back then that this rusty and ugly empty hull could be metamorphosed into a beautiful and potent carrier over a decade+ later?
Then followed by a sibling? Then a younger yet bigger brother?

And more to come... creating a BIG FAMILY

 

[Deino]

https://twitter.com/x/status/848856443369398272

 

[grey boy 2]

 

[Rocky rock]

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

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Wait a minute. Are these photos of Liaoning?

What are they doing here?

 

[Rocky rock]

Wait a minute. Are these photos of Liaoning?

What are they doing here?

No this isn't Liaoning A/C this is new 2nd Type 001A A/C under construction at Dalian Shipyard China.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

No this isn't Liaoning A/C this is new 2nd Type 002 A/C under construction at Dalian Shipyard China.

With a ski-jump. LOL.