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Recently, the leaf Hoan Cau Times newspaper Post: Experts say China’s second aircraft carrier is ready to go to the South China Sea to stop “rioters.”
The previous article quoted some people, known as experts, as saying that video released by China Central Television (CCTV) earlier this week showed that the Shandong ship was ready to go to large areas to “improve the capacity of combat ”.
Ready to fight ?
The Shandong aircraft carrier was built by China, based on the Liaoning platform which bought old ships from Ukraine and later repaired. December 2019. Shandong ships are employed by naval forces in the South China War Zone. This is the force that operates in the South China Sea. The Shandong ship has a “home port” located at the Sanya base on Hainan Island.
Video released by CCTV shows the J-15 fighter taking off and landing on the Shandong ship, the Z-9S multi-purpose helicopter also appeared in this video.
Images of J-15 fighters landing on Shandong ships in video posted by CCTV |
Hoan Cau Times newspaper quoted an expert named Li Jie from China as saying that the video above shows that Shandong’s ship has reached basic combat capability after only one year of service to the PLAN. The fact that this warship does the live fire drills shown in the construction of two Chinese carrier battle groups is not just a “concept”.
Therefore, expert Li Jie said that the Shandong ship should be sent south, that is, to the East Sea, to implement an “effective deterrent” to “stabilize the situation.”
Power really damaged?
However, watching the video posted by CCTV about the Shandong aircraft carrier, the so-called real-time fire drills are only when the short-range HQ-10 missile missile into the air.
As for the significant capability of an aircraft carrier, the deployment of combat aircraft for combat is unclear. Specifically, according to the video above, the J-15s are not yet carrying missiles when they take off and land on the Shandong ship.
Meanwhile, international experts believe that the J-15 still has many problems to overcome when organizing operations with the Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers.
The reason, according to Dr. Satoru Nagao (Hudson Research Institute, USA) answered Youth, is the J-15 series of aircraft too heavy to take off and land on an aircraft carrier, while neither the Liaoning nor the Shandong have a built-in propeller. Therefore, the J-15 when it takes off in Liaoning or Shandong does not have propulsion systems.
However, the J-15 has a maximum total takeoff weight of up to 33 tons, while the F / A-18 aircraft on the US carrier has a maximum total takeoff payload of 23 tons. Meanwhile, they are not only equipped with aircraft launchers, the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers or the US Ford-class aircraft carriers have a displacement of more than 100,000 tons and measure more than 330 meters, which is much larger and longer than displacement of about 70,000. tons and a length of 300 and 315 m, respectively, of the Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers.
Compared to the Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikrant, which also has no aircraft propeller and has a water displacement equivalent to Shandong’s ship, the INS Vikrant uses a Mig 29 fighter with a total takeoff tonnage of just 18 tons, just the same 55 % compared to J-15.
From the aforementioned disadvantage, according to Dr. Satoru Nagao, the J-15 wants to take off easily on the Shandong aircraft carrier, it is forced to carry less weapons and fuel, leading to a significant reduction in combat capability, both in terms of firepower and combat range.
Images of J-15 fighters aboard ships from Shandong Photo: taken from CCTV clip |
In fact, according to the CCTV video, the J-15 aircraft still does not carry missiles when taking off, so the possibility of the handicap has not been overcome. Therefore, the combat capability of the Shandong aircraft carrier is difficult to achieve highly effectively.
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