Posted on 10/10/2005 10:17:52 AM PDT by Jeff Head
The PLAN is readying the former Russian carrier Varyag for something. These pictures show the exterior painting now being completed in the standard PLAN surface combatant colors, with the superstructure preparing to be painted.
They have been working on the project in their naval shipyards for over two year now.
Lot of effort going into this ship. With the development of their area air defense (Aegis-like) destroyers, and with this new standard paint scheme, I cannot believe it is just to sit around and serve as a casino. Especially since the company that was to be the casino holding company, as I understand it, has long since gone out of business.
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What happens in Varyag stays in Varyag.
Great to see them being dumb enough to waste money on this.
Thanks for the update and photos -
I agree, unlike Russia, China has no intent to let her ships sit in port and "rust away".
Can you spell: T-A-I-W-A-N
Good stuff Jeff ~ it's right down your ally ~ Bump!
Like I said in the past, Our Wal-Mart money at work.
It will take them years to become proficient and a lot of money...and I bet they will not stop with one carrier. But they have a lot of money to spend and have shown an interest in spending it in a massive military buildup across the board.
The Russians operate the sister ship, the Kuznetszov with full deck carrier aircraft, the SU-27 naval derivitive. They call it STOAL, short take off, arrested landing, using the boy jump and afterburner power for the short take-off.
Taiwan will only be their first objective. I believe they ultimately intend to project power out beyond the second island chain.
Thanks...its just a continuation of something we have been talking about for several years.
Here's the list of submarines destroyed by the the Chinese Navy in their entire history:
They'll never be able to defend it from an ASW perspective (and that's leaving out the myriad other ways the thing can be destroyed). It's clearly a waste of money; surprisingly, there's quite a bit of info out there about the debate within the PLAN of the advisability of attempting to enter the carrier game. Having read them I'd have to clearly agree with the anti-carrier guys (from their perspective.)
Sadly so.
Great pictures. What's the origin of these pictures? Also, the ship doesn't appear to be in a dry dock, how can it be painted?
They could certainly make life complicated if that thing starts steaming around the Straits of Formosa.
Can't we just send those "missing" military trained dolphins from the gulf over there and plead ignorance as carrier lies on it's side in the harbor.
They do, the expertise came from the Russians.
Will they be able to get that bad boy through the Panama Canal?
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