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To: Jeff Head
including effective strike fighters

Effective, vs what?

One would assume that the J-15 would suffer from the same limitations as the Su-33 (although there is some dispute that the J-15 is a direct reverse-engineering of the Sea Flanker). Specifically that the need to use the ski jump to get airborne imposes significant range and stores carriage limitations.

The Russians were prepared to accept these limitations because for them the primary role for the Brezhnev-class (now Kuznetsov-class) carriers were to provide defensive aircover for their missile shooters (such as the Kirovs and Slavas) which were their primary offensive platforms.

Attack, more specifically light attack (which is all the Su-33 is capable of) was a secondary consideration. Long-range medium/heavy attack wasn't even really on the table; the Sea Flanker's engines just aren't powerful enough, even when launching from the mid-ships position.
132 posted on 08/13/2011 2:11:54 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter
The Chinese J15 is able to launch, like the SU=-33 wth several thousand kilos of ordinance and still fight out to a 700km range or so.

With buddy stores they can extend that.

They will carry air to air and air to surface. Their version of harpoon type missiles in the strike role.

It will be many years before they are effecdtive in the blue waters against us. They will be more so in the China Sea under the umbrella of their land air.

But not so with other nations there in the WESTPAC. That's why India, Jpana, S. Korea and Australia are all scrambling now to get their own naval air developed and commissioned.

140 posted on 08/13/2011 2:34:34 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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