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To: StoneWall Brigade

This is fan-bou are to go along with a typical Russian prognmostication about their future prowess.

That carrier will neve be built.

1) It’s a STOBAR carrier, meaning it traps landing aircraft on arrestor wires and has a ski-lift to help launch instead of catapults. But if you simply look at it, across the angled deck, it has no avenue for bolters. This is an aircraft that misses all trap wires and then has to “bolt,” or speed off the end of the angled deck. but this ridiculous design does not allow for that. They sho a ski-jump off the end of the angled deck. Ergo...fan-biu art...not a serious design.

2) If the Russians were capable of, willing to, and could afford a 80,000 ton nuclear powered carrier, IMHO, no way would it be STOBAR in the first place. They are severally limited in the number of sorties they can maintain, and in the weight loads their aircraft and take off with. They would build it CATOBAR like ours...meaning Cats and Traps.

No...this is just an exotic looking piece of art work with no real substance.


20 posted on 08/13/2015 8:34:34 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Jeff Head

Thanks Jeff as always your analysis is much spot much.


21 posted on 08/14/2015 3:04:46 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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