They are antennae.
PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)
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They are antennae.
I see this on US aircraft carriers as well. And I thought it some sort of aid for landing haha
antiterror13
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This big boat is being built so fast, amazing...
When aircraft carriers started their careers those were in perpendicular position to the flight decks and put on parallel position for the flight ops to reduce air fluctuations above the flight deck. So I wouldn't say that PLAN invented it, nor Russians did. I would bet on US Navy, Imperial Japanese Navy or Royal Navy for this matter.Does it mean PLAN copied from the US carriers... trust me somebody would say so
I think you just missed his point, which was to mock the idea that anyone would be nonsensical enough to argue that whip antennae mounted on the edges of a carrier's flight deck are somehow a unique arrangement that can be logically accused to be "copied" by anyone.
This of course is a reference to the bigger stereotype where every superficial resemblance of any sort of hardware or software that comes from any single Chinese industry (but in our case, the Chinese military industrial complex) is automatically a "copy," even for rather obvious things such as configurations or arrangements of hardware where certain ways of arranging things is the industry norm or even the most logical, physically possible way to design something within the laws of present technology.
Needless to say, the arrangement of whip antennae on the edges of a carrier's flight deck fits that bill rather well, so antiterror is essentially making a friendly jab at the folks who have made similar claims like that in the past, or to pre-empt those who may consider doing so again in future for this case.
So whichever navy first fielded such a configuration isn't relevant, because that was never part of his point.
I think that most of posters here know close to nothing when it comes naval warfare so I wanted to point out one of the most characteristic things on the flight deck of aircraft carriers with a bit of history behind it since it was used the way it's today for close to 90 years.
Too bad most of you take anything informative as some sort of attack on Chinese technology, warfare etc. Nowhere I wrote that it's inferior to anything or something like that. And yes, when it comes to those antennas it's a 'copy' just like you wrote. But that's not a bad thing as anchor or rudder which is on every warship around the world. And accept that Chinese Navy isn't showcasing any 'new trends' in that area and it's devoloping it's systems mainly because of the fact that it can't be imported rather than anything else.
That's a quite immature remark, quite low in aim as well, quite fitting for a dude who read a few books and considered himself an expert.
I don't want to have it adrift further in flamebait but people here do know a thing or two. One thing for sure, you or your Imperial Japan didn't write Admiralty Seamanship Handbook.
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