Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian photographed sailing through the Taiwan strait with not a single aircraft on the deck. The Ministry of National Defense declared today that the National army has used joint intelligence and investigation methods to closely monitor the whole process and understand its actions.https://mna.mnd.gov.tw/news/detail/?UserKey=7e4604d6-2225-4e13-95f1-2af92ca8685c
>>65270205>where are all the jets?>fell off
>>65270205Chinks currently don't have enough naval fighters for their carriers. Building modern jets is actually harder than building ships.
>>65270215>enough naval fighters for their carriers>j-15 built: 116+
>>65270216is it really doctrine to store them folded and loaded like that?
>>65270205there are stealth aircraft on the deck though
>>65270221IDK it's just the first picture google gave me
>>65270205Tf, How close do you have to get to have such a good quality picture? Is the Taiwan air force just doing flyovers around the carrier?
>>65270216Those blue things look like props pretending to be missiles.
>>6527023920-30km away with modern targeting pods
>>65270239Maybe Sniper pod from a newly arrived F16V.
>>65270205Whether this is real or not does not concern me. I want to hear about this thing sailing beyond the Malacca strait. Until then, China is merely a regional power.
Over 70% of the top ranked pla generals (the central military commission) are in political jails, I guess they have much more to concern other than some random plane-less wannabe aircraft carrier.
>>65270264Why even care about where it sails in general? Until China actually uses it in a war, there's zero point to anything.
>>65270254I'm not seeing a nozzle at all, they're probably for training
>>65270258>20-30km away with modern targeting podsSeems decent resolution.
>>65270268>Over 70% of the top ranked pla generals (the central military commission) are in political jailsCitation required.
>>65270221>is it really doctrineI too wondered bout that...>>65270279Oh.
>>65270270>there's zero point to anythingPosturing and jingoism is NOT pointless to a paper tiger.
>>65270291>paper tigersuch a rich comment
>>65270216Look how clean those planes are. That's probably why they're not on the deck in OP, seaspray corrosion is inevitable and it'll ruin the squeaky-clean image of the PLANAFAGS or whatever the hell they call themselves.
>>65270638NTA but I'd like the equipment that I pay for with my taxes to look brand new
>>65270205i don't know enough about this subject so i'll ask, isn't the standard to take the planes inside the ship? unless you're going to war or something and have runways already in place for the excess planes you're carrying?
>>65270665If your shit looks brand new, it means it hasn't done anything.
>>65270681As far as I'm aware, it's more typical to keep aircraft undergoing maintenance in the hangar deck and the combat-ready aircraft on the flight deck.
>>65270254Dummy rounds are blue, I think all countries do this.
>doing a postural thing>don't put aircraft on deck so you can't be accused of 'provocative'>if typical Chinese 'accident' happens, you don't lose the aircraft There can be plenty of reasons why they did this. Italy used to have aircraft carriers without aircraft until they sold it.
>>65270773is that why your cock is so clean?
>>65270205Shakedown cruise?
>>65270264Due to ideology, China does not even exert power in the region.
>>65270372Implessive
>>65271160looks like the front fell off
These China threads are so tiring and banal, it's the same pro-China and anti-China retards being retarded and circle jerking, like the Russia-Ukraine threads.
>>65271130no, thats from the spit-shining your mom gave it.
>>65271281>both sides le samelol
they don't want to give the wrong idea and get shot at
>>65271368Yeah, you're both faggot cheerleaders who should go to /int/ or /pol/ unless you want to talk about actual weapons and war.
>>65271400You should stop holding your eyes like that or they'll stick like that permanently.
>>65271406Case in point. How do you double down on the same shit-tier posting that belongs on /int/ and not /k/?Yeah, yeah, fuck chinks. Can we talk about their Navy instead of their little dicks or something?
65271192Very normalhttps://desuarchive.org/k/search/filename/Breaking_News_Chinese_destroyer_and_coast_guard_ship_damaged_in_confrontation_with_Philippine_Coast_Guard-134a285a.jpg/
>>65270205If the Taiwanese had balls they would have done a touch and go.
>>65270823Imagine>Chinese accident happens >an entire aircraft carrier and it's contents lost at seaThe reactions online would be incredible
>>65270205while the west struggles to keep up with 6th gen stealth fighters, the peoples' republic of china has already deployed its 8th gen stealth fighters, undetectable even in the visible light spectrum
>>65272000heh
>>65270205You know what would be a great power move? Have that thing sail all the way to Hawaii and have it loitering around just outside territorial waters while RIMPAC is going on.
>>65271281trying to talk about new chinese aircraft here is fucking impossible
>>65272549you can thank years of intentional and intensive chinese shilling campaigns for that.
