New Flight Ops Video From China's Carrier Features Loaded Up J-15 Fighters

The Drive ^ | JULY 3, 2017 | TYLER ROGOWAY

[Spktyr]

That’s what their DF-21D ballistic anti-ship missiles are for. Those are MRBMs converted to antishipping duty instead of land attack. They have a reported 1340 mile range.

Their surface craft and subs are for mopping up after the carrier goes down.

[central_va]

I guess CV’s lack some kind of cool factor that I don’t get.

[central_va]

If the ChiComs start shooting nukes at out Navy then there are way bigger problem going on in the world to deal with.

[central_va]

Nuclear surface ships are a waste. Underway refueling is easy and the Navy has perfected it. Conventional carriers are the way to go. I’d rather have a huge conventional surface fleet then a small all nuclear fleet. You can’t have both.

[Malcolm Reynolds]

Except that ‘carrier killer’ isn’t the wonder weapon it’s reported to be. It requires a lot of support gear, which makes it easy to find. It’s road mobile, but has to launch from a hard site. A ballistic missile can’t track a moving target on its own. Those assets would be targeted immediately. It’s interceptable in the mid course phase. The active homing in the terminal phase is subject to countermeasures.

[Malcolm Reynolds]

Yes, but you can’t reliably work off the assumption their capabilities will be dynamic and our will remain static. We learned that from the last big threat we faced in the Pacific.

[central_va]

Yes, but you can’t reliably work off the assumption their capabilities will be dynamic and our will remain static.

Do you know how long it takes to build a dry dock big enough for a CVN? With globalist running everything it is a wonder we still have ONE big dry dock in the USA.

[Secret Agent Man]

Also of note it is not nuclear powered, so range will be an issue for them.

[Malcolm Reynolds]

Maybe I wasn’t clear as to what I meant by capabilities. Early in the 20th Century, you ruled the sea with battleships. By the mid point of the same era, it was the carrier. Now, almost 2 decades into the 21st, who knows what the next step will be.

[Sergio]

Infra-red search and track (IRST). It’s kinda like radar, but detects heat sources passively, so it can detect other aircraft without having to turn on it’s radar.

[Sergio]

Little things mean a lot. If you view the video, at about the 4:12 mark you can see the pilot's oxygen mask, it seems to be pretty solid.

Compare that to the mask shown below.

The difference is the soft rubber oval right below the night vision goggle. These ovals, one on either side of the oxygen mask, allow the pilot to pinch and blow into the nose to equalize the pressure his/her ears that often happens when coming down from higher altitudes. Prevents ruptured ear drums in the worst case, but is mainly for pilot comfort.

It's a little detail, but one that shows we are still ahead in the game and that we place a little more value on our troops.

[Spktyr]

The DF-21D doesn’t have to have a nuclear warhead. Just a decent mass coming down at suborbital velocity will punch a great big hole in the carrier from the deck to the keel all by itself. The shockwave from the impact would gut the internal decks. See the Rods From God concept.

[puppypusher]

“Is that R2D2 immediately to the front right of the fighter cockpit?”

It looks to be an Infrared Search and Track Video system.

With that thing you can detect aircraft without activating your search and attack radars. Slave your missiles to it.

[manc]

It is a joke how our military has been treated, and ship builders etc have been ignored , while the free traders looked to weaken us as a country. Makes me sick how the country is such a state , and left by obama.