J-15 carrier-borne fighter thread

[schenkus]

sorry guys but this photo is actually a CG done by 西葛西造舰, he has done alot of top of the class CGs of PLAN ships including 055 and future aircraft carrier. he has made a claim on weibo about this photo being his and that it was made in 2013.

I think what made us all fall for this CG is that it shows the kind of activity we expected to see by now after seeing all the images about 2 years ago.

It seems to me that after the first rush of videos and images we only got to see "replays" of old exercises and haven't really seen what has been happening on the carrier for the last year or so.

So here is my question: do you think the carrier is doing this kind of exercises (involving ~6 fighters and some helicopters on the flight deck at the same time) and the PLAN just keeps it secret or are they still at a stadium were they only start some prototype jets at a time ?

 

[Jeff Head]

here's a close up of the CGView attachment 14161

We WANTED to believe...so we did.

It is all the more clear now, from this latest, older pic that you have posted that it is in fact a CG pic, done some time ago.

I still believe that the escort mix could have been a warning signal...but, like I said, it was otherwise so well done, and we wanted it to be so...that we ran with it.

Just goes to show you, that even here on SD, with as much expertise as we have...we can still fall prey to mistakes.

Not that this individual event tried to fool us...hehehe...no, we just got a repost of his pic and let our own desires and imagination do the rest.

 

[SinoSoldier]

It's interesting how the first batch of the J-15 jets still sport pitot tubes. This implies that these jets do not have radars installed yet.

This notion leads me to believe that the first batch of (probably 12) J-15s will be used primarily for training and familiarization purposes in preparation for the induction of the second batch of the jet,. It is rumored that the second batch will recieve an active phased array radar.

 

[schenkus]

It's interesting how the first batch of the J-15 jets still sport pitot tubes. This implies that these jets do not have radars installed yet.

I don't think pitot tubes and radars are strictly exclusive, since F-16s seem to have one.
Would they be a problem with certain types of radar ?

 

[Jeff Head]

Nice pic:

 

[jkliz]

Cool.Wonder if its serial or prototype.

 

[Jeff Head]

Cool.Wonder if its serial or prototype.

It is supposed to be fairly recent so I am thinking it is a production aircraft.

But the lighting makes that almost impossible to verify.

 

[Deino]

 

[Ultra]

That's just beautiful.
Its about time China makes a movie about a hotshot J-15 naval pilot called Wild Bull, and the movie should be called BEST GUN..............

 

[Ultra]

Actually, after a bit of internet search, as it turns out, China DID make a movie imitating Top Gun...


I Watched China’s ‘Top Gun’ — So You Don’t Have To
‘I feel the need, the need for 速度!’
by KYLE MIZOKAMI

The Chinese government wants to take you into the danger zone. In 2011 Beijing released Sky Fighters, China’s answer to Top Gun. Like Top Gun, it’s about fighter pilots waging aerial war for their country.

But that’s where the comparison ends. Made by the Chinese military as domestic propaganda, Sky Fighters is possibly the worst movie with fighter planes ever made. And that’s saying a lot.

The film imitates Top Gun relentlessly in scene after scene, but in many ways it’s the American film’s exact opposite. While Top Gun is proof that a cheesy film can still be immensely enjoyable, Sky Fighters proves that a movie with fighter planes can actually be pretty awful.

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BAHAHAHAHAHAH, it looks and sounds horrible!
I will watch it tonight!