I have seen a number of pics...quite a few in fact...with J-15s landing and on deck, taking off, landing, etc. with four air to air missiles. Here are a few over the next two posts:
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I did see a couple of pics, when they were doing mainly qualifications with the prototype, of other than air to air missiles. Like these iron bombs:
I saw that pic earlier out on the web...not sure if it has been posted here. but we certraainly have pics of 111 on deck on the Liaoning:
Not sure if we've seen this before. J15...111, now on Liaoning Aircraft Carrier.
I have pics of all of them, including 117 which was lost, on deck on the carrier.
They have clearly rotated all of the production aircraft out for time on the carrier.
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Fine art.
Huitong's JZY-01 entry says the original JZY-01/Y-7 AEW demonstrator may have been to help provide the basis of a new fixed wing carrierborne AEW design (rather than a direct Y-7 mod), and he has a higher quality pic of the AEW that A man posted as an image for the caption.
I'm not sure if the plane in the images themselves are informed by any kind of reliable chatter or if they're just fan drawings though...
Anyway, in the past I have considered it would be a good idea to develop an ASW variant of any fixed wing carrier AEW aircraft, along with a COD variant of course.
A fixed wing carrier capable ASW plane could prove to be quite useful... not to mention it would be a nice supplement for land based ASW forces as well to complement the larger Y-8GX6. But like I said, I'm not sure if the images are meant to be representative of the musings of a fan or reflective of an actual design.
(ofc it goes without saying that even for art, some things are wrong, such as the tailhook position, which is painfully obvious would be right where the cargo ramp is, for the depicted COD variant)
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