A fishing boat videotaped an extra-oversized fishing boat doing some fishery activities off southern Taiwan.
CV-16, CV-17 STOBAR carrier thread (001/Liaoning, 002/Shandong)
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Short answer: Yes.
Carriers are operated in cycles counted in a certain amount of months, with each deployment, training, and maintenance period planned out. Of course, this can change and we've seen USN do it quite unhealthily to its carrier fleet in the last decade. But it's generally preferable to stick to a healthy cycle. USN conventional carrier needed a COH that requires dry-docking every 72 months, which is 6 years. The last time Liaoning was in drydock for a notional COH was back in June 2018. It's been about 58 months since and while we don't know exactly what the operating cycle for PLAN looks like, it would seem to me a 60-month cycle is not too often.
As for Admiral Kutznezov...
This facility they put together hardly even counts as a drydock, it's just two smaller drydocks merged with a concrete pond built in front... They had to actually blow the damn thing open to let her out. Even back in the Soviet era, they didn't provide their ships with good maintenance infrastructure. I wouldn't use the Russian Navy as a good indicator of a healthy operation.
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Rofl the metric you should be looking at isn't frequency of going in and out of drydock but rather amount of time spent in drydock versus outside of drydock.
I don't care CAG, this here says you can pack them in more than that! Make it so!
Sure would be a headache to unpack that ...
Not if you've got a transporter...
Why was a fishing boat allowed so close to the carrier? Or was this taken from one of the escort ships.
Also I'm guessing the other j15s are kept in hanger in this type of weather? I could only see one on the deck.
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Why do you think a civilian boat would be prohibited from getting that close?
It's peacetime, they aren't at war. It's very normal for civilian ships to be able to happen to be able to pass naval ships quite closely in peacetime.
Likely most of the airwing is in the hangar, a couple might be in sortie, and a couple might be obscured by the island.
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reminds me of the old days over decade ago when we first seen smoke from the boilers when it was first refitted
then came the clearing of the deck cranes
that time China was in its infancy in carrier construction
from no Carriers to 3 x Carriers + 3 x LHD + 8 x LPD in 10 years, so much flat deck space
I wonder where we will be in 10 years time