Russia refuses to sell arresters for Chinese aircraft carrier

Rusnavy.com ^ | 25 November 2011

[sukhoi-30mki]

Aerial shot of the Varyag during recent trials

[2ndDivisionVet]

Don’t worry, Barry will sell them.

[spokeshave]

Ha...they done 3 sea trials and just figured out they need arresting wires....

...splash one squadron .....

[rarestia]

For the uninitiated... arresters are... what? The hooks used to slow landing aircraft on the flight deck?

[count-your-change]

Yes. A jet keeps power up on landing in case they have to go round again so an arrestor snags the plane to stop it.

[USNBandit]

I think they are talking about the arresting gear engines. When you see a plane land on a carrier and it catches a wire you are seeing just the visible portion of the arresting gear. Below deck that cross deck pendant is attached to big set of pulleys and a hydraulic ram to absorb the kinetic energy of the jet landing.

I would describe the engine in more detail, but who knows what the Russian came up with, instead.

[USNBandit]

I think they are talking about the arresting gear engines. When you see a plane land on a carrier and it catches a wire you are seeing just the visible portion of the arresting gear. Below deck that cross deck pendant is attached to big set of pulleys and a hydraulic ram to absorb the kinetic energy of the jet landing.

I would describe the engine in more detail, but who knows what the Russian came up with, instead.

[X-spurt]

Just like in days of old, especially with Czar Pootie, aside from both militarily engaging mainly civialians they remain most likely to shoot at each other long before we or anyone else needs to worry with either.

Other than being down-wind for any fallout, I would dig watching em go after one another.

[Stonewall Jackson]

FYI

[Chode]

"In the past, there used to be four arresters on an aircraft carrier, but the new Indian carrier is equipped with only three arresters, which indicates of high reliability of Russian systems".

bullsh!t... only one wire is snagged at a time so the reliability is a non-issue

four wires gives the pilot one more chance of snagging a wire on any given pass where three gives him one less chance

and the one wire is NOT the preferred wire anyway

[SeaHawkFan]

Are you anywhere near NAS Whidbey Island?

[Jeff Head]

Here's a higher res shot of that same pic...clearly the arrestor lines are not on the carrier yet...on her second trials. She does not have the J-15 aircraft ready yet (two prototypes and two now painted in official PLAN colors is all they have) in any case.

They will be checking out the vessel and its systems this time around...and perhaps making a few helo landings.

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CHINESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER

[Jeff Head]

Exactly. BZ.

[Last Dakotan]

As a public service to the Chinese I'll give them the technology from America's first carrier.

If this doesn't work they can pound sand.

[Jeff Head]

Thanks. See my post # 12.

[Avid Coug]

“Don’t worry, Barry will sell them.”

You are being too harsh. Barry will give them to China as a sign of his admiration.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Or to pay off a couple billions in debt?

[Secret Agent Man]

I was figuring Barry would sell them the VTOL F-35 version.

[surfer]

That’s exactly what I was thinking...lol.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Let the Chinese figure it out for themselves—Looks like the jets can take off but not land now—unless they use helos. It going to take them a while to figure this out—but they will.