First impressive images of China’s Aircraft Carrier Battle Group

China Defense Blog ^ | January 3, 2013 | Staff

[Former Proud Canadian]

Thanks, Jeff.

[Jeff Head]

See my post 60. wWithin a couple of years they will have their full airwing aboard and operating. still lots to learn, but they are methodically going about it.

They have also practised and trained with three of their pre production models which are carrier qualified. They have trained one group of eight pilots with those aircraft already, who are now training more.

Here's a couple of pics of them training/qualifying off of the Liaoning earlier this year.

Liaoning Training/Qualifying with J-15 Strike Fighters

Here's a link to an earlier video of the same:

Video of take-offs and landings on the Chinese carrier

[Zhang Fei]

See my post 60. wWithin a couple of years they will have their full airwing aboard and operating. still lots to learn, but they are methodically going about it. They have also practised and trained with three of their pre production models which are carrier qualified. They have trained one group of eight pilots with those aircraft already, who are now training more. Here's a couple of pics of them training/qualifying off of the Liaoning earlier this year.

I have to hand it to them - they are going about this as systematically as they've upgraded the civilian infrastructure (power stations, roads, water supply, telco, et al). If the pictures here are any guide, it looks like they will have an operational carrier, and maybe CBG, sooner than many expect.

[Zhang Fei]

Here's a couple of pics of them training/qualifying off of the Liaoning earlier this year.

Still, I suspect if they had the means to launch and recover 8 carrier-based aircraft at one go, we'd be seeing pics of these aircraft in the air instead of the lame ones of the land-based bombers.