PRC President reviews PLAN Naval Air

Jeff Head

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Equation said:
Great photos Jeff. I see a Liaoning full combat air group are being discussed and worked on.;)
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Yes they are, Equation. Good point.

Of course, this was a photo op, but they are obviously using that board and it would be interesting to see that board in an actual training exercise.

It would give us a better idea of the intended air wing...though we all know it will be something on the order of 18-24 J-15s.
 
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chuck731

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or better if Xi was man enough he should do like Vladimir putin and ride on the back of a double seat J-15 and land on the deck!
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And risk having the image come back to haunt him? Like Dukakis in a tank, or George Dubya bush landing on a carrier?
 
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South China Morning Post said:
President Xi Jinping has paid his first visit to the country's sole aircraft carrier - a trip that analysts said was designed to send a strong message to regional rivals.

Xi's inspection tour of the Liaoning in Dalian followed a series of naval advancements by China's neighbours, including Japan's launch of its largest military vessel since the second world war, the helicopter-carrier Izumo.

Yue Gang, a retired PLA colonel, said Xi's inspection tour was aimed at sending a signal to Tokyo. "It means China is developing its strategic weapon," Yue said. "China needs to further improve this weapon and should not be complacent with its recent [naval] advancement."

Ministry of National Defence spokesman Yang Yujun said on Thursday that although the Liaoning was China's first aircraft carrier, "there will surely be more in future".

China would fully consider the development of aircraft carriers in accordance with the needs of national defence and military build-up, Yang said at a news briefing.
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mr.bean said:
or better if Xi was man enough he should do like Vladimir putin and ride on the back of a double seat J-15 and land on the deck!
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That's the funniest thing I have heard. The measurement of the courage of a leader by him taking the seat of a fighter aircraft, just because a president had done it before. Hmm... maybe a whole lot of US presidents are not man enough, but are supreme leaders of the world's most powerful military. And maybe Mao is also not man enough because he didn't take the seat of a J-6 during his time, but had been giving the West big big problems.
 
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mr.bean said:
or better if Xi was man enough he should do like Vladimir putin and ride on the back of a double seat J-15 and land on the deck!
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If it were Putin he would be flying the J-15 himself, shirtless. But again there's the whole formality issue.
 
Jeff Head

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SinoSoldier said:
If it were Putin he would be flying the J-15 himself, shirtless. But again there's the whole formality issue.
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And while he were was in the cockpit, he'd fly to Siberia and he would hunt a Siberian Tiger with the J-15 and not even use its missiles or guns. He would swoop down on it while it ran across a snow field and kill it with the supersonic shock wave...then land on landing skis, skin it himself, eat its heart, and then pack its skin back to Moscow to be mounted.
 
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Jeff Head said:
And while he were was in the cockpit, he'd fly to Siberia and he would hunt a Siberian Tiger with the J-15 and not even use its missiles or guns. He would swoop down on it while it ran across a snow field and kill it with the supersonic shock wave...then land on landing skis, skin it himself, eat its heart, and then pack its skin back to Moscow to be mounted.
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Sounds more like Sara Palin :)
 
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mkhan said:
Sounds more like Sara Palin :)
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Well, Palin was raised hunting and fishing in Alaska. But she has never shot a Siberian Tiger.

Putin, on the other hand, apparently has..

In fact, he has done numerous PR videos to show how much a man's man he is...and given his expertise at Judo, his history in the KGB and his numerous exploits, it is probably true. But they really go out of the way to make it apparent.

Here's the PR video of his shooting a female Siberain Tiger that had escaped and was supposedly charging a camera crew. He knocked it down with a seadtion dart and they then carted it off..


[video=youtube;MCayaIk4UMg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCayaIk4UMg[/video]
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That's why I mentioned the Siberian Tiger in my earlier response. Putin has become sort of the Russian Chuck Norris.
 
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chuck731

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Different contemporary political culture at least.

Putin has successfully relied on his own larger then life public persona to stay in power. Under the current Chinese communist party a person trying to attain and stay in power on the strength of larger than life public persona will end up like Bo Xilai.

At different time in recent past, the situation was reversed. Mao stayed in power on the strength of his outsized public persona, including naked swims across Yangzhi, when the Soviet Union was led by dull apparatchiks like Brezhnev.
 
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