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We are getting there - step by step, overseas trial, with air wing back & testing - so touched especially seeing the night landing!! I do appreciate prudent preparation. In the mean time, recall members here once talked about buying HMS R09 PoW: UK's broken-down £3bn warship HMS Prince of Wales...

An coincidence? CV-16 Liaoning just started regular mainenance and its sister back from refit. Aircraft carrier Shandong ready for far sea drills as Liaoning starts regular maintenance (pdnews.cn) Hope Vicky catches up with service log soon. - Sidenote, Japan (JSDF) observed a 320 taking-off...

Well, to clarify (for myself), no one here claims that STOVL/STOBAR aircraft (carrier) is "junk". All past few posts started with someone (used to) call J15 & Liaoning "junk". Like @Adm Kenobi said, even J-15 is incomparable to FA-18/Rafale in loading (a big if unless PLA reveals the real...

On top of that, you won't really want to compare the service records of so-called-junk Liaoning against Vikramaditya... ... Liaoning sail in December (winter): https://news.usni.org/2023/01/02/chinese-liaoning-carrier-strike-group-now-in-east-china-sea-pla-drones-operating-near-japan v.s...

Well, the matter is: that "optimized" fighter got only one: F35B/C, and perhaps the only one in foreseeable future. (while I agree we should NOT go for it). Thing is: once we go to CATOBAR for IAC-2, just like China is doing, I wonder any aircraft manufacturer, other than US and China (LM and...