CV Liaoning needs "years" to be "combat ready"
Perhaps one of her successor carriers might even be launched when she is "combat ready" and all their experimenting with carrier aviation has a foundation.Military.comChina: New Carrier Needs Time to...
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I wonder if it will turn out to be a paper tiger, and the Russians sold them a pig in a poke?
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Put another nickel in - in the nicklelodeon:Photos: J-31 full-scale model on aircraft carrier flight deck replica 27 Sep...
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That tower reminds me of the huge thin on Hermes (95).
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it took us years to develop carrier aviation into an effective force. And a carrier and air wing today with fully developed doctrine, tactics, procedures, etc., takes a year training cycle to be rated...
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Nightwatch2 wrote:it took us years to develop carrier aviation into an effective force. And a carrier and air wing today with fully developed doctrine, tactics, procedures, etc., takes a year training...
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that last point is one very worth taking note of!!
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I certainly think they're going about this in a smarter way than say, India, with it's diverse air groups, multiplicity of engineering arrangements (steam plants from the UK, US and Russia, GT's on...
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Indeed. It's worrisome because they are huge and have a very nationalistic population. They are looking at the very long term, and it's easy to imagine them wanting to grab the very weak countries...
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And historically China has always had issues holding itself together, with the break down generally running up casualties in the hundreds of thousands even in historical times. Right now 'China' is...
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