aonestudio
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The usual, hosting a beach party on the island of Formosa.What is China planning to do with these ships?
About 50% bigger displacement, though.In-deck rather than deck-edge elevators and long, skinny island bring to mind the SCS/Príncipe de Asturias.
My money would be on hot work. Welding sparks found something sufficiently flammable.That is bad news, anyone know how the fire started?
One LHA like that typically carries one company and a couple platoons of battalion support company.How many ships would it take to lift a PLA armoured or mechanised division?
On an individual ship level, I think it does match the US various LHAs. Just doesn't have the mass shipping side of it yet, though I bet the PLAN could press-gang a whole bunch of big Ro-Ros if they needed to.I think my question is relevent. The number and capability of PLAN amphibious shipping is being treated as if it matches US capabilities. It clearly does not. Moreover the US has WW2 and Korean experience of forced antry and over 70 years experience of unopposed sealift. China has zilch.
Escort carriers typically carried ASW planes, and that's a place the Chinese are really lacking right now.gimme a break... the chinese put a miniature EMALS on a LHD to launch drones - because it would take too long to develop a VSTOL F-35 look-alike ?
My mind is blown.
That's a whole new take at the "escort carrier" &"CVL" concepts harcking back to WWII... weird idea. Time will tell if there is any pertinence to it, or if it was just an idiotic move...
Curious that neither appears to have any aviation onboard at all during this shoot.
VSTOL jets are a pain in the ass to design and build. How long did it take to get Harrier or F35B working?Anymore news on whether the PLAN are going to be designing a VSTOL fighter anytime soon? It would give the LHDs some more offensive capability instead of just using them for helicopters.
Ships rarely do have aircraft onboard for sea trials. Barring maybe a helicopter for hauling people around. Lots of pictures of the Ford with a bare flight deck doing max turns and stuff.Curious that neither appears to have any aviation onboard at all during this shoot.
It may shock you to learn that I'm familiar with sea trials. However, 31 was commissioned in '21 and 32 in 22. The photos FL posted aren't from a sea trials, they're from a PHOTOEX shot during/around a recent exercise. Normally, during such a shoot, PLAN like other Navies will pose aircraft on the decks. It's unusual that they'd put the two ships into formation and do the media thing with bare decks.Ships rarely do have aircraft onboard for sea trials. Barring maybe a helicopter for hauling people around. Lots of pictures of the Ford with a bare flight deck doing max turns and stuff.
Ah, missed that those were not sea trials, my bad!It may shock you to learn that I'm familiar with sea trials. However, 31 was commissioned in '21 and 32 in 22. The photos FL posted aren't from a sea trials, they're from a PHOTOEX shot during/around a recent exercise. Normally, during such a shoot, PLAN like other Navies will pose aircraft on the decks. It's unusual that they'd put the two ships into formation and do the media thing with bare decks.
Possible but unlikely.Never say never Scott Kenny about the PLAN VSTOL, they may design and build a VSTOL fighter in total secrecy and reveal it when we least expect it.
Possibly when a US SecDef is in town after saying it would take them 20 years to pull it off.Never say never Scott Kenny about the PLAN VSTOL, they may design and build a VSTOL fighter in total secrecy and reveal it when we least expect it.
Said SecDef would have to have really pissed off his Chinese counterparts to have them do that.Possibly when a US SecDef is in town after saying it would take them 20 years to pull it off.![]()
To be able to use their STOVL LHAs as ASW carriers and their Type 03s as attack carriers.Why would the PLAN develop an Osprey clone and use it as a AWE platform when they are about to field the KJ-600 AWACs that will be based on the Type 003 aircraft carrier, somehow I very much doubt the PLAN will develop yet another AWACS aircraft.
If I remember correctly, the first prototype of the J-20 (2001) had its maiden flight (or was it unveiled) when the US secretary of defence was visiting China.Said SecDef would have to have really pissed off his Chinese counterparts to have them do that.
That's a whole lot of "not giving the SecDef any face" which is generally not something done in Asian cultures (edit) no matter how much they don't like you as a person. (/edit)
I'd still laugh my ass off if they did, mind you.
To be able to use their STOVL LHAs as ASW carriers and their Type 03s as attack carriers.
Updated 076 LHD renders alongside 075. .. would have been perfect If J-35 was also on deck
made by 大包CG/wb
Never say never Scott Kenny about the PLAN VSTOL, they may design and build a VSTOL fighter in total secrecy and reveal it when we least expect it.