Chinese Aviation Developments

[GroundPounder]

Your link just goes to page 1 of this thread. If I was the lady reading the names though, I'd have immediately caught on and stopped and said this must be a prank.


Why were the Japanese teens hooting and laughing?

Fixed the link, thanks.


They were laughing, joking around, taking selfies and such. It was like they were standing in front of some tourist attraction, that was the funniest thing they had ever seen.

It was obviously disrespectful, but I could not tell you what they were actually saying. Like I said, had there not been a language barrier, I was planning on telling them to be respectful of the space they were in. They looked to be in their late teens, to early 20s.

 

[hlg6016]

Your link just goes to page 1 of this thread. If I was the lady reading the names though, I'd have immediately caught on and stopped and said this must be a prank.


Why were the Japanese teens hooting and laughing?

The Japanese kids were probably better behaved.

 

[GroundPounder]

The Japanese kids were probably better behaved.

The Japanese kids were the ones being disrespectful. They were the ones laughing, joking, and taking selfies in front of the airplane like it was roadside attraction.

 

[hlg6016]

The Japanese kids were the ones being disrespectful. They were the ones laughing, joking, and taking selfies in front of the airplane like it was roadside attraction.

That's disappointing, Then again they have a whole different outlook on why that airplane is a museum piece than we do.

 

[Flash]

Here are the clearest photos yet of the PRC's type 003 aircraft carrier CNS Fujian (CV-18). Conventionally-powered and about the size of the later USN CVs: perhaps 80,000-plus tons full-load displacement. Electromagnetic catapults. Their J-35 strike fighter is still in test, but speculation is that initially the air wing will include catapult-capable modified J-15 Flankers.

Magnets don't work when wet, don't they know that?

 

[number9]

Magnets don't work when wet, don't they know that?

 

[Llarry]

The Zhuhai airshow is in progress in China. Lots of hardware shown. I've searched in vain for a good quality photo of the KJ-600 AEW aircraft (E-2 clone). Here are a few photos of Zhuhai November 2024...

#1 - Z-21 naval helo (H-60 Plus clone)

#2 - Y-8 ASW variant

#3 - H-6K Badger with ASMs

#4 - J-35A prototype (AF version, not Navy CATOBAR variant)

 

[Llarry]

One more photo, this time of the interim PLA Navy carrier-based CATOBAR fighter, the Shenyang J-15T Flanker-X2. To my knowledge, the Russians never adapted the Flanker for catapult takeoffs, so this is a Chinese innovation.

 

[Gatordev]

That sensor on the turtle back of the Z-20 still perplexes me. The only thing that seems to make sense would be...SATCOM?

It's also interesting that when you Google-image "naval Z-20," the majority of the images show a navalized Z-20 (F and J) without a radome, though occasionally you'll see a picture with a version that has a radar (if it's real).

 

[Flash]

#1 - Z-21 naval helo (H-60 Plus clone)

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I wonder how the dimensions compare to the Mitsubishi SH-60K/L, as that is a lengthened version of the H-60 and this one appears to be as well.

#3 - H-6K Badger with ASMs

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Not just any ASM's but they look like ALBMs, an old idea that they and the Russians have made 'new' again.

 

[pilot_man]

Fixed the link, thanks.


They were laughing, joking around, taking selfies and such. It was like they were standing in front of some tourist attraction, that was the funniest thing they had ever seen.

It was obviously disrespectful, but I could not tell you what they were actually saying. Like I said, had there not been a language barrier, I was planning on telling them to be respectful of the space they were in. They looked to be in their late teens, to early 20s.

I'm obviously pretty late to this party but what makes you think they were Japanese teens?

I had a similar conversation with a Army O-6 one time about the rude Japanese tourists running around DC. Turns out they were probably Chinese tourists and this guy couldn't tell the difference.

What you are talking about sounds nothing like the Japanese. Unless it was a group of Yakuza, then all bets are off.

 

[GroundPounder]

They were speaking Japanese, and to me appeared Japanese. It would have been almost 20 years ago, had it happened now I would suspect people being outlandish for a social media post.

Had they been speaking English, I would have tried to educate them. It was obvious they knew what they were looking at, which made the whole thing even more weird and disrespectful. They didn't appear to be as part of a tour group, and I never saw them with adults.

They appeared to be HS aged, and definitely not Yakuza.