China says it has conducted the first landing of a fighter jet on its new aircraft carrier.
The Chinese-made J-15 made the successful landing on the Liaoning, a former Soviet carrier, during recent exercises, the defence ministry said in a report yesterday on the flight tests.
The Liaoning went into service in September in a symbolic milestone for China's growing military muscle that comes at a time when Beijing is increasingly embroiled in a series of territorial disputes with its neighbours.
halls120 wrote:Unless I'm missing something, this carrier has one significant shortcoming - it can't land and launch aircraft simultaneously.
JeffSFO wrote:halls120 wrote:Unless I'm missing something, this carrier has one significant shortcoming - it can't land and launch aircraft simultaneously.
It's far from being combat/operationally ready but the Kuznetsov class aircraft carriers have angled decks so why wouldn't it be able to launch and land simultaneously?
JeffSFO wrote:halls120 wrote:Unless I'm missing something, this carrier has one significant shortcoming - it can't land and launch aircraft simultaneously.
It's far from being combat/operationally ready but the Kuznetsov class aircraft carriers have angled decks so why wouldn't it be able to launch and land simultaneously?
miamiair wrote:JeffSFO wrote:halls120 wrote:Unless I'm missing something, this carrier has one significant shortcoming - it can't land and launch aircraft simultaneously.
It's far from being combat/operationally ready but the Kuznetsov class aircraft carriers have angled decks so why wouldn't it be able to launch and land simultaneously?
They may be able to land simultaneously, but they can't get four birds of in less than a minute like we can.
miamiair wrote:They may be able to land simultaneously, but they can't get four birds of in less than a minute like we can.
halls120 wrote:Well, it' shard to tell from the video, but since they don't have catapults, they have to take off farther back from the bow, and it looks like where they start is back in the landing pattern.
helvknight wrote:But can they do this?
