PLAN Carrier Strike Group and Airwing

Re: What will the 1st PLAN Carrier Battle Group (CBG) look like?

take this pic
and add Varjag (someone in the old forum got this idea), Minsk and Kiew - and you'll have a part of future PLAN CBG

Re: What will the 1st PLAN Carrier Battle Group (CBG) look like?

That was my thread in the old forum. Thanks for linking to it. This overhead pic was meant (there and here) to be a satellite depiction of what that ocean-going pic also depicted.

Re: What will the 1st PLAN Carrier Battle Group (CBG) look like?

tphuang said:

JF-17 isn't developed for naval stuff. It's all going to be su-33 or naval J-10s.

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He never said JF-17

Re: What will the 1st PLAN Carrier Battle Group (CBG) look like?

Here's that pic:

Re: What will the 1st PLAN Carrier Battle Group (CBG) look like?

Su-27 Pilot said:

And allow me to add the planes to the carrier ??

20 JH-7 fighter/bomber
20 J-10 multirole fighter
20 Su-30 MKK/MKK2 fighter/bomber
2-3 AWACS
5 Ka-28 Transport helicopters
5 AS 565 Naval multirole helicopters

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I do not believe that many will fit on the Varyag. Maybe 12 J-10, 16 SU-33 and AWAC and ASW helos.

Re: What will the 1st PLAN Carrier Battle Group (CBG) look like?

Su-27 Pilot said:

And allow me to add the planes to the carrier ??

20 JH-7 fighter/bomber
20 J-10 multirole fighter
20 Su-30 MKK/MKK2 fighter/bomber
2-3 AWACS
5 Ka-28 Transport helicopters
5 AS 565 Naval multirole helicopters

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Pilot Varyag's capablity is 32 aircrafts( 22 su-27s and su-30s) and 10 helicopters.

A Nimitz class carrier can cayyr 56 aircrafts..wow!

Re: Anti-Carrier Trump Card

Back in the day...January 1973 .way before most of you were born down around Guantanomo Bay I saw an A-7B Corsair from VA-72 operating off the USS John F Kennedy sink a old Gearing class DD with a single MK 84(2000LB) bomb. It was only guided by gravity. It hit the old DD amidships and split it in half. The DD sank in no time. It was quite a sight.

Re: Anti-Carrier Trump Card

an la can counter a sub, but not its torpedo. if the kilo got a first few shots at the cvbg, there is going to be losses. then the kilo needs to get its butt out of there or else...

Re: What will the 1st PLAN Carrier Battle Group (CBG) look like?

the varyag is messed up in the last pic. the island is on the wrong side.

i doubt the chinese would use j-10's and flankers on the carrier. its one or the other.

the fastest way would be buy around 20 sea flankers and 5 helixs. then you can customize later.

Re: AWACS for future chinese carrier

maybe the propellors can work like rotors and the plan will be able to take off vertically.