CV-16, CV-17 STOBAR carrier thread (001/Liaoning, 002/Shandong)

Helius

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It looks like it could be a Z-8J AEW helicopter.

Naturally, you'd want a AEW plane and the plane guard plane to be first in the air prior to starting your fixed wing launch for that cycle.
Right of course! I owe the Z-18J an apology haha.

The lack of KJ-600 had me assuming the PLAN CVWs been operating without AEW&C all along lol.
 

by78

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Some screen captures of Carrier Liaoning.

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Yazzinra

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Im counting 23 fighters and 3 helicopters. Is that the most shes been seen with so far? Pretty packed flight deck too.
 

supersnoop

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That is a pretty pristine looking hangar. It's amazing when you look at the "before" photos.

I wonder if there will ever be a documentary made of the refurbishment work.
In many ways the refurbishment job is more difficult because there is pre-existing structures that you have to workaround. For Shandong, they could change anything they didn't like or need.

This is something that would go well on HGTV for sure, lol
 

banjex

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That is a pretty pristine looking hangar. It's amazing when you look at the "before" photos.

I wonder if there will ever be a documentary made of the refurbishment work.
In many ways the refurbishment job is more difficult because there is pre-existing structures that you have to workaround. For Shandong, they could change anything they didn't like or need.

This is something that would go well on HGTV for sure, lol
Yeah when the real estate bubbles collapse, that'll be their new topic haha
 
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