danielchin
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Are those WS-10s I see? If so, this aircraft represents not just Chinese catapult viability but also maritime jet engine maturity.
It also appears to be prototype '5' so can we assume there are four other prototypes undergoing testing?
Also curious whether the radome hosts a J-16-esque AESA radar or if they kept the J-11B radar.
Edit: On further inspection, the pitot tube makes me think this is only the J-11B's radar. The J-16's AESA does not have pitot tubes IIRC.
Good questions and observations.
This is another clear indication that a Chinese CATOBAR carrier is on the way...and probably sooner rather than later.
Clearly, 001A, which we suspect will be CV-17, is getting closer and closer to launch, and it will be STOBAR.
But I think we can presume that somewhere, especially with all the rumors and chatter to that effect, that 002 has probably started and is the deisng that these new J15s and their heavier landing gera were designed for.
Exciting thing to see!
Jura The idiot
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From post #676, I could not hear any language other than Chinese and Russian. I don't know the Russians, but PLA has a special school "解放军外国语学院", "PLA Foreign Language Institute". Russian is surely one of the languages that top the number of speakers in that institute. So there is no problem to insert an Russian speaking officer in the Chinese team.
Some background: Russian was the 1st foreign language until the mid 1960s in China, then from 1990s (the collapse of Soviet Union) there was an increase of demand for Russian speakers in many tech and science institutes due to the imported Soviet scientists and technicians and technical documents. I remember back in my school days in the 1990s, a researcher in the institute where I studied told me that she has to refresh her Russian skill that she dropped for decades. Since then the importance of Russian only increased.
Some background: Russian was the 1st foreign language until the mid 1960s in China, then from 1990s (the collapse of Soviet Union) there was an increase of demand for Russian speakers in many tech and science institutes due to the imported Soviet scientists and technicians and technical documents. I remember back in my school days in the 1990s, a researcher in the institute where I studied told me that she has to refresh her Russian skill that she dropped for decades. Since then the importance of Russian only increased.
Jura The idiot
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about two per second, that's what a 3" can do
(OTO and AK-176 come to my mind because https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/russian-military-news-reports-data-etc.t1545/page-390#post-416358I would've thought this could've been a demonstration of the ability to engage a surface and an air target simultaneously (in general, fire-controls enable several targets tracked, fire can be switched between them) ... do you have any details?