kwaigonegin
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Did Liaoning enter dry dock after her 1st sea trial? I can't remember
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Yes, exactly the same procedure. Few days after the first sea trial she went into the drydock.
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I think we shouldn't be so quick as to point towards the Liaoning's trial procedures as a regular standard. Remember that the Liaoning's hull have spend more then decade basically neglected before it was tended to. So it would be understandable that the PLAN would be fretting over her that much.
But this new CV is the very first of construction practice, it should not be treated as much difference as Liaoning. Actually, Liaoning being old doesn't make it worse than a new construction, it has stayed in the dry dock for a very long time giving enough time to inspect as a new construction.
The second construction (if there is to be) may skip this back to dry dock, but I would not do it to the first. Think about you fix your bathroom (piping and sealing etc.) for the first time, compared to doing it many times as a professional.
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Being old and left out to the elements for more than a decade in a half completed form is more than enough to make anyone apprehensive of its integrity at first glance.
Whereas the Type 001A is practically spanking new, that's the difference.
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kwaigonegin
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in that case this is likely a non event then!
No one here has said the 'Liaoning's trial procedures as a regular standard', most people here do wish there is no issue and probably try to find some relevant information. But if it does has, it is what it is, people will accept it.
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Yes, it was planned that way from the beginning. I think we will observe this behavior with every new Chinese aircraft carrier.
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And off topic note here and one most likely to be a very triggering one :
I find the current saltiness of the Russian defense supporters to be absolutely delicious. One well known poster (or a troll depending on your pov) went so far as to claim that a firm in St Petersburg came up with the design on the Type 001A. A far fetched claim by any logical stretch of notion. Or that the current Admiral Kuznetsov cannot be accounted for its problems because according to him "Its an aircraft-carrying cruiser, not a carrier".
I find the current saltiness of the Russian defense supporters to be absolutely delicious. One well known poster (or a troll depending on your pov) went so far as to claim that a firm in St Petersburg came up with the design on the Type 001A. A far fetched claim by any logical stretch of notion. Or that the current Admiral Kuznetsov cannot be accounted for its problems because according to him "Its an aircraft-carrying cruiser, not a carrier".
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Does the PLAN ever plan to do shock trials for its carriers, as the USN does ?
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