Posted on 02/23/2021 6:46:25 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
There are stronger signs that China’s next aircraft carrier will be fitted with an advanced type of aircraft launch system, with official confirmation of a test flight of a carrier-based early warning plane. State broadcaster CCTV confirmed in a report on the weekend that the KJ-600, the country’s first domestically developed fixed-wing early warning aircraft, had a test flight in Xian, Shaanxi province, in late January. The KJ-600 is designed to operate from an aircraft carrier but its weight and turboprop engines make it less powerful than a jet, requiring help from a catapult for take-off. China has two aircraft carriers on the water, the Liaoning and the Shandong, but both have ski jump decks for take-off.
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“Stop saying we released the virus. If you continue to say this, we will release another one.”
Completely different. Look, the rearmost pilot’s window has a slightly different shape. /s
LOL.
I shouldn’t laugh, but I am.
They have at least one steam CVN building and perhaps 2 more using EMALS. All nuclear powered, no ski jump.
Me too. They are so blatant about it. Reminds me of Stalin telling his engineers to make a Soviet copy of the B-29. They were so terrorized they copied the Boeing logo on the yoke and the bullet holes and aluminum repair patches on the rear fuselage.
Maybe their strategy is to make it look so much like a US Navy plane that it’ll confuse Tom Cruise in his F-18.
Ahhh yes. What would we do without Tom Cruise protecting us???
Great story about the B-29-ski...Communism at its finest. These clowns are no different, except that human life appears even less significant to them, if that is possible.
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