First Chinese Carrier Aviators

stragegy page ^ | 9/20/08 | strategy page

[Flavius]

[Natural Law]

"The Russians have warned China that it may take them a decade or more to develop the knowledge and skills needed to efficiently run an aircraft carrier."

It will take them much longer to effectively run an aircraft carrier in combat against the US. They need only ask the worlds second greatest carrier force ever (Japan).

[null and void]

They did pretty well at first...

[joma89]

Either way, I think China is patient enough to work at it for a decade or two. They have been patient for 70+ years.

JoMa

[Travis McGee]

ChiPing

[LiberConservative]

Just where are these carriers going to be manufactured? CHINA?! Hahahahaha!

[null and void]

700+ years

[paddles]

Flew over Dalian last December while on a KAL flight into Seoul. Broke out of the clouds at @15K, looked down and could plainly see the Varyag even out of my pathetically small coach class window. You can also find it pretty easily on Google Earth. While you’re there scroll East to find the USS Pueblo in Pyongyang.

[paddles]

Flew over Dalian last December while on a KAL flight into Seoul. Broke out of the clouds at @15K, looked down and could plainly see the Varyag even out of my pathetically small coach class window. You can also find it pretty easily on Google Earth. While you’re there scroll East to find the USS Pueblo in Pyongyang.

[blau993]

Have they scheduled their first Tailhook Convention yet?

[Centurion2000]

Tell them to look around at each other. Half of them will be dead over the next 10 years.

[johnnycap]

I hope China is patient, their economy is worth 1/2 what it was in February. Have you seen what has happened to THEIR stock market?

[SlapHappyPappy]

Actually, if you consider the fact that the turning point, Midway came only 6 months after Pearl Harbor, they really didn’t do that well. The real problem was that we’d allowed them to expand so far by that point that there was a lot that had to be cleaned up before we could really consider going after Japan itself.

It was pretty easy for them as long as they had no real opposition and the element of surprise.

[buccaneer81]

The Chi-Coms better hope they're more competent than this poor soul:

The late, lamented Wang Wei, the only fighter pilot ever to lose in an encounter with an E-3.

From ChineseJetPilot.com:

Squadron leader Wang Wei, China's Guardian of Territorial Airspace and Seawaters. Wang Wei sacrificed his life protecting China from the wild and arrogant U.S. Air Force. Wang Wei stood eight feet tall and laser beams shot from his eyes. Wei and his talking hoverjet, the 81099, protected the globe from barbaric acts of U.S. hegemonism. Wang Wei and 81099 were chopped to bits when they flew into the propellers of an American EP-3E spyplane. Even comrade Wei was no match for the school of sharks that consumed him in the waters of the South China Sea.

[SkyDancer]

Oh Yeah? Let them try this!

[bert]

.....They need only ask the worlds second greatest carrier force ever (Japan).....

I’m reading this thread watching Midway (for maybe the 142nd )time on AMC.

Spruance is leading the task force...... a brownshoe I think they called him. No carrier experience.

He won the decisive carrier engagement the second or third in history with inexperienced pilots and sailors.

[buccaneer81]

Or This:

[Polybius]

The Russians have warned China that it may take them a decade or more to develop the knowledge and skills needed to efficiently run an aircraft carrier.

First succesful carrier landing: HMS Furious, Sqn Cdr E. H. Dunning, 2 AUG 1917:

First fatal carrier landing: HMS Furious, Sqn Cdr E. H. Dunning, 7 AUG 1917:

[ASA Vet]

[SkyDancer]

Where’s the ‘chopper on the front lawn, eh????