Chinese Navy Massive build up!

[Top_Gun_101]

Article about the modernization of the chinese navy
http://www.jeffhead.com/redseadragon/2007.htm

 

[BarrettRC8]

I'm actually teaching an undergrad class on the rising Chinese threat tomorrow. Interesting link. Thanks.

 

[Flash]

Article about the modernization of the chinese navy
http://www.jeffhead.com/redseadragon/2007.htm

Interesting site, pretty pictures.........but riddled with inaccuracies.......

Did you notice he is trying to sell some novels (bottom of the site) relating to the subject?

 

[Brett327]

Article about the modernization of the chinese navy
http://www.jeffhead.com/redseadragon/2007.htm

Brett

 

[mxracer19]

Brett that about sums it up! Man some of those ships sure do look sweet though.

 

[BlackBearHockey]

Can an engineer please explain to the English major what the premise behind the ramps at the end of the carrier is?

 

[MasterBates]

It's a "Ski Jump". Non-Catapult aircraft carriers use them to help get planes airborne. Must work well, since they are widely used.

 

[PropStop]

Cool, more targets.

 

[schwarti]

There was also an article in March's issue of Proceedings that focused on the Chinese navy buildup.

 

[Lawman]

It's a "Ski Jump". Non-Catapult aircraft carriers use them to help get planes airborne. Must work well, since they are widely used.

Read extreamly limited Payload/Fuel for aircraft taking off. And due to the non-existance of any tanker assets other then taking your SU/Mig aircraft and forcing them to do weight restricted buddy tanking duties you get an extreamly limited combat radius.

Ill see if I can find that website that showed the differnces between a Land Based and a Carrier based Flanker due to the neccesary weight penelties. It was pretty sad really.

 

[raptor10]

The counterpoint to the above article.

 

[webmaster]

Cool, more targets.

You crack me up sometimes... no wonder you are going to be a WTI, eh?

 

[PropStop]

You crack me up sometimes... no wonder you are going to be a WTI, eh?

Just like to watch things go BOOM! :icon_smil

 

[Rasczak]

Read extreamly limited Payload/Fuel for aircraft taking off. And due to the non-existance of any tanker assets other then taking your SU/Mig aircraft and forcing them to do weight restricted buddy tanking duties you get an extreamly limited combat radius.

Ill see if I can find that website that showed the differnces between a Land Based and a Carrier based Flanker due to the neccesary weight penelties. It was pretty sad really.

Enough for them to get to Taiwan no?

This may be a bit off topic but, any speculation as to why they have not gone for it yet?

 

[raptor10]

Enough for them to get to Taiwan no?

This may be a bit off topic but, any speculation as to why they have not gone for it yet?

Because of US...