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China-Japan-Koreas
China Ski Jump - Carrier Practice?
2009-08-14
Posted by:3dc

#3  You knew this was coming.
Posted by: Mike   2009-08-14 11:02  

#2  ...The problem with ski jumps is although they work quite nicely in getting birds airborne without a catapult, it cuts down on deck space. That's why these huge Soviet Russian CVs only carry about a third of the air wing that US CVs do. And you can't launch an AEW bird (like our E2) from a ski jump - that's CTOL all the way. And since modern CVs are just about unsurvivable and unusable without some kind of AEW, the Chinese and Soviet Russian ships aren't really that helpful.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2009-08-14 09:25  

#1  Build a carrier? Sure. Learn to fly from and land on one? Ok. Use as teh U.S. does? Not likely.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2009-08-14 09:18  

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