Posted on Apr 20, 2016
Explore China’s ‘Starter’ Aircraft Carrier in 3-D
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The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington, D.C., has posted online a new assessment of China’s aircraft carrier, including a 3-D interactive graphic of the Liaoning warship.
The research provides a side-by-side look at the carrier with those from the U.S., India and Japan.
In terms of combat capability, the Liaoning also comes up short next to, say, the USS Ronald Reagan, according to CSIS. The Liaoning’s air wing consists of 24 Shenyang J-15 multirole fighters, which are Chinese variants of Russia’s fourth-gen Sukhoi Su-33, while the Reagan carries 55 fixed wing aircraft, including the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet, in addition to more than 30 rotary aircraft, according to the organization.
In a taped question-and-answer session, Professor Andrew Erickson of the Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute said there is a wide range of contingencies — not involving combat — for which China might be expected to utilize its carrier.
“There is significant potential in the near future to take it overseas for some basic naval diplomacy, to show the flag, so to speak,” he said. “And this will already have tremendous symbolic and psychological effects.”
It might also send the Liaoning on humanitarian missions, such as disaster relief, or into crisis areas to evacuate its own or other citizens.
Erickson said China previously sent warships to Yemen to evacuate foreign nationals from that country as it descended into civil war.
“So the world will be watching what China does with its aircraft carrier, or aircraft carriers, over time,” he said.
The research provides a side-by-side look at the carrier with those from the U.S., India and Japan.
In terms of combat capability, the Liaoning also comes up short next to, say, the USS Ronald Reagan, according to CSIS. The Liaoning’s air wing consists of 24 Shenyang J-15 multirole fighters, which are Chinese variants of Russia’s fourth-gen Sukhoi Su-33, while the Reagan carries 55 fixed wing aircraft, including the F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet, in addition to more than 30 rotary aircraft, according to the organization.
In a taped question-and-answer session, Professor Andrew Erickson of the Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute said there is a wide range of contingencies — not involving combat — for which China might be expected to utilize its carrier.
“There is significant potential in the near future to take it overseas for some basic naval diplomacy, to show the flag, so to speak,” he said. “And this will already have tremendous symbolic and psychological effects.”
It might also send the Liaoning on humanitarian missions, such as disaster relief, or into crisis areas to evacuate its own or other citizens.
Erickson said China previously sent warships to Yemen to evacuate foreign nationals from that country as it descended into civil war.
“So the world will be watching what China does with its aircraft carrier, or aircraft carriers, over time,” he said.
Explore China’s ‘Starter’ Aircraft Carrier in 3-D
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China has been annexing regions in the South China Sea that have historically belonged to other countries, and continues to use belligerent military operations to enforce the seizures. China has claimed the entire South China Sea, including regions historically belonging to Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan and the Philippines. China’s claims are rejected by almost everyone outside of China, and China as well refuses to submit their claims to the United Nations court deciding such matters, apparently knowing their claims are groundless and that they would lose. On top of this the Chinese are developing an integrated systems of over the horizon radar, surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles, submarines, surface ships like aircraft carriers and aircraft whose purpose is to prevent our carriers from having freedom of movement and thus limiting their effective range. While China states its merely exercising its sovereignty this expansionism is much more of strategic importance than what's going on in the the Middle East. An Island here, a carrier there and the next thing you know its WWIII all over again in the South Pacific.
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PO2 Ron Burling
So far as I know, the main role of a 'bird farm' is to project power, clearly, the Chinese want into that business and we really can't do much about what they decide to do with that huge trade deficit we give them.
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Thanks for sharing SP5 Mark Kuzinski China’s ‘Starter’ Aircraft Carrier in 3-D.
Not available in stores but only through this 3-D offer :-)
Not available in stores but only through this 3-D offer :-)
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LTC Stephen F.
SP5 Mark Kuzinski - I think it would require a UPC code from every cereal made in China which would be easy but the kicker would be a UPC code from everything bootlegged in China. Capt Mark Strobl
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