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India will get those arresters from Russia but unlike China our sales are approved.
Liaoning (Varyag) - Chinese Aircraft Carrier
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Whoever was on the plane and took this picture, lucky man!Meanwhile, on the road again.
India will get those arresters from Russia but unlike China our sales are approved.
As if we need the russian for an arrester. It's an old picture in case you wonder.Being able to buy something which Chinese aren't able to is a big thing to be proud of, isn't it?
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Pic on the bottom left is supposedly the arrestor system on the Varyag below deck. Beside it is a comparison with its American counterpart. I've always suspected it had already been installed, and the only thing not yet fitted is the arresting cables. For one, the Varyag's flight deck has already been completed, and an anti-skid surface applied. To install that heavy gear, it would all have to be ripped out again.
That says a lot about the authenticity of the author who wrote that article.
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Satellite gets pic of Chinese carrier
This Dec. 8, 2011 satellite image provided by the the DigitalGlobe Analysis Center shows the Chinese aircraft carrier Varyag sailing in the Yellow Sea, approximately 100 kilometers south-southeast of the port of Dalian, China.
FILE - In this April 17, 2011 file photo, China's first aircraft carrier, the former "Varyag" of Ukraine, is under restoration in a shipyard in Dalian in northeastern China's Liaoning province. The commercial U.S. satellite company DigitalGlobe Inc. said Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 that one of its satellites captured a photo of "Vayag" on Dec. 8 in the Yellow Sea off the Chinese coast. The aircraft carrier has generated intense international interest because of what it might portend about China's intentions as a military power. China has said the carrier is intended for research and training. (AP Photo, File) CHINA OUT
DENVER (AP) — A commercial U.S. satellite company said it has captured a photo of China's first aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea off the Chinese coast.
DigitalGlobe Inc. said Wednesday one of its satellites photographed the carrier Dec. 8. A DigitalGlobe analyst found the image Tuesday while searching through photos.
Stephen Wood, director of DigitalGlobe's analysis center, said he's confident the ship is the Chinese carrier because of the location and date of the photo. The carrier was on a sea trial at the time.
DigitalGlobe, based in Longmont, Colo., sells satellite imagery and analysis to clients that include the U.S. military, emergency response agencies and private companies. DigitalGlobe has three orbiting satellites and a fourth is under construction.
The aircraft carrier has generated intense international interest because of what it might portend about China's intentions as a military power.
The former Soviet Union started building the carrier, which it called the Varyag, but never finished it. When the Soviet Union collapsed, it ended up in the hands of Ukraine, a former Soviet republic.
China bought the ship from Ukraine in 1998 and spent years refurbishing it. It had no engines, weaponry or navigation systems when China acquired it.
China has said the carrier is intended for research and training, which has led to speculation that it plans to build future copies.
China initially said little about its plans for the carrier but has been more open in recent years, said Bonnie S. Glaser, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"It wasn't until the Chinese actually announced they were sending it out on a trial run they admitted, 'Yes, we are actually launching a carrier,'" she said.
China publicly announced two sea trials for the carrier that occurred this year, she said.
The carrier's progress is in line with the U.S. military's expectations, said Cmdr. Leslie Hull-Ryde, a Defense Department spokeswoman.
A Defense Department report to Congress this year said the carrier could become operationally available to the Chinese navy by the end of next year but without aircraft.
"From that point, it will take several additional years before the carrier has an operationally viable air group," Hull-Ryde said in an email.
She declined to comment on the DigitalGlobe photo, saying it was an intelligence matter.
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APNewsBreak: Satellite gets pic of Chinese carrier - Yahoo! News
This Dec. 8, 2011 satellite image provided by the the DigitalGlobe Analysis Center shows the Chinese aircraft carrier Varyag sailing in the Yellow Sea, approximately 100 kilometers south-southeast of the port of Dalian, China.
FILE - In this April 17, 2011 file photo, China's first aircraft carrier, the former "Varyag" of Ukraine, is under restoration in a shipyard in Dalian in northeastern China's Liaoning province. The commercial U.S. satellite company DigitalGlobe Inc. said Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 that one of its satellites captured a photo of "Vayag" on Dec. 8 in the Yellow Sea off the Chinese coast. The aircraft carrier has generated intense international interest because of what it might portend about China's intentions as a military power. China has said the carrier is intended for research and training. (AP Photo, File) CHINA OUT
DENVER (AP) — A commercial U.S. satellite company said it has captured a photo of China's first aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea off the Chinese coast.
DigitalGlobe Inc. said Wednesday one of its satellites photographed the carrier Dec. 8. A DigitalGlobe analyst found the image Tuesday while searching through photos.
Stephen Wood, director of DigitalGlobe's analysis center, said he's confident the ship is the Chinese carrier because of the location and date of the photo. The carrier was on a sea trial at the time.
DigitalGlobe, based in Longmont, Colo., sells satellite imagery and analysis to clients that include the U.S. military, emergency response agencies and private companies. DigitalGlobe has three orbiting satellites and a fourth is under construction.
The aircraft carrier has generated intense international interest because of what it might portend about China's intentions as a military power.
The former Soviet Union started building the carrier, which it called the Varyag, but never finished it. When the Soviet Union collapsed, it ended up in the hands of Ukraine, a former Soviet republic.
China bought the ship from Ukraine in 1998 and spent years refurbishing it. It had no engines, weaponry or navigation systems when China acquired it.
China has said the carrier is intended for research and training, which has led to speculation that it plans to build future copies.
China initially said little about its plans for the carrier but has been more open in recent years, said Bonnie S. Glaser, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"It wasn't until the Chinese actually announced they were sending it out on a trial run they admitted, 'Yes, we are actually launching a carrier,'" she said.
China publicly announced two sea trials for the carrier that occurred this year, she said.
The carrier's progress is in line with the U.S. military's expectations, said Cmdr. Leslie Hull-Ryde, a Defense Department spokeswoman.
A Defense Department report to Congress this year said the carrier could become operationally available to the Chinese navy by the end of next year but without aircraft.
"From that point, it will take several additional years before the carrier has an operationally viable air group," Hull-Ryde said in an email.
She declined to comment on the DigitalGlobe photo, saying it was an intelligence matter.
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APNewsBreak: Satellite gets pic of Chinese carrier - Yahoo! News
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Exactly, silly chinese just spend billions on the AC but they dont plan to have any air wings on it.they don't have it
The same one who claimed j-20 didnt exist?WHERE IS ARMAND SAYING THAT IT DIDN'T HAVE PROPULSION???
He is the one living in his happyland.
Now someone start say it has no jetWHERE IS ARMAND SAYING THAT IT DIDN'T HAVE PROPULSION???
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