Chinese new domestic Air Craft carrier

China honors navy aviation officer Dai Mingmeng as a "Heroic Test Pilot"

 

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A meeting to honor navy aviation officer Dai Mingmeng as a "Heroic Test Pilot," for his outstanding performances as a carrier-based aircraft test pilot was held by the Central Military Commission (CMC) on Monday.Dai was among the first batch of test pilots for China's carrier-based aircraft. He took the lead in dangerous test flight programs and was the first to manage a ski-jump takeoff and landing with the help of arresting wires, expanding the country's fixed-wing aircraft from land-based to carrier-based operations.

Ski-jump refers to aircraft running along a ramp that is curved upwards for takeoff.Navy commander Wu Shengli, who is also a CMC member, awarded Dai the medal and certificate under a commendation order signed by Chinese President and CMC Chairman Xi Jinping.

HMS Queen Elizabeth: How will she be used?

F-35B To Fly At Christening Of Brits’ Newest Aircraft Carrier, If Weather OK

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Do not expect any official confirmation, but the British will allow Lockheed Martin’s F-35B to make its first flight outside of the United States on July 4 when the country’s newest aircraft carrier is christened by Her Majesty the Queen.

Apparently eager not to disappoint Queen Elizabeth, should the plane not be able to fly in the Scottish weather, and desirous of keeping the media’s focus on the majestic carrier upon which she will be cracking a bottle of Champagne open, the powers that be have decided not to confirm or deny that the aircraft will be on hand. (Could the Queen Elizabeth be christened with a good single malt Scotch, given the locale? Also, the Royal Navy no longer calls them christenings; it’s officially a naming ceremony.`

Liaoning aircraft carrier back to dry dock in Dalian for refit and upgrade

Liaoning and J-15 Flying Shark Naval Fighters

PLAN Aircraft Carrier Liaoning operations

Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning with battle carrier group

PLA 'sinks' US carrier in DF-21D missile test in Gobi

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The People's Liberation Army has successfully sunk a US aircraft carrier, according to a satellite photo provided by Google Earth, reports our sister paper Want Daily — though the strike was a war game, the carrier a mock-up platform and the "sinking" occurred on dry land in a remote part of western China.

A satellite image reveals two large craters on a 200-meter-long white platform in the Gobi desert used to simulate the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. The photo was first posted on SAORBATS, an internet forum based in Argentina. Military analysts believed the craters would have been created by China's DF-21D anti-ship missile, dubbed the "carrier killer."

While claiming that the missile has the capability to hit aircraft carriers 2,000 kilometers away, the nationalistic Chinese tabloid Global Times stated that the weapon was only designed for self-defense; the DF-21D will never pose a serious threat to US national security because it is not even able to reach Hawaii, the newspaper said, though fully aware of the US naval deployment in the Western Pacific.

Underlining this point, Global Times took a common line from China's national defense doctrine before the country acquired an aircraft carrier of its own — namely that carriers are an offensive weapon while anti-ship missiles are defensive. "It can be used like a stick to hit the dog intruding on our backyard, but it can never be used to attack the house where the dog comes from," the paper's commentary said.

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Indian Navy all set to launch its first (SBTF) Shore-Based Test Facility for its Naval Aircraft

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Ski Jump for the Mig-29 K aircrafts clearly visible below.



India will launch its first Shore-Based Test Facility (SBTF) at Naval Air Station INS Hansa in Goa for training naval fighter pilots operating from aircraft carriers.MiG-29K pilots are currently using this facility for training, before they commence operations on INS Vikramaditya in Karwar.

The ski-jump part of the facility is complete and has already been certified in 2013, after which the MiG-29K fighters have undertaken a number of take-off trials successfully. 

Marine Nationale (French Navy) and US Navy joint Aircraft Carriers deployment

Pictures of USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group combined operations with the French navy's Task Force 473 (with the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier) in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. 

The French Navy likely named the Operation “Bois Belleau” (Belleau Wood, a famous WWI battle that took place in France and involved the US Army and US Marine Corps) because some major joint Marine Nationale (French Navy) – U.S. Navy maneuvers and exercises are planned. According to the French Navy, operation Bois Belleau will enable the French and US navies to reach the highest level of cooperation to date. The U.S. Carrier Battle Group formed around the Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier USS Harry S. Truman, will be present in the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf at the same time. There will be a joint deployment and close cooperation for five weeks between the two CVBGs. France and the United States are leading strategic partners and the only nations to deploy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers capable of projecting massive fire-power.

The presence of the Charles de Gaulle will also be an opportunity for the French Navy to conduct high-level cooperation with partner countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

As INS Vikramaditya reaches INS Kadamba, pilots plan to move from MiG-29 Simulator Facility to actual landings and takeoff from INS Vikramaditya

India's newest and biggest ever warship, the INS Vikramaditya, arrived at its home port of Karwar in Karnataka after an uninterrupted six-week sail from northern Russia.The 44,500-ton aircraft carrier, which has been under a nine year refit in Russia, docked at the naval base on Tuesday evening.The aircraft carrier, which undertook the long sail home without any armament or combat aircraft on board, will over the next few months get integrated with the Western Naval Command.

At its home port of Karwar, celebrations have been planned for the arrival of the warship, with the families of over 1600 sailors on board waiting to meet their loved ones after several months.The crew of the warship had gone to the Russian town of Severodvinsk last year for training.With the ship now at its home base, preparations have been made to ensure that it is operationalised at the earliest. The ship currently does not have its main armament — the MiG 29 K fighters — and merely has a small chopper complement on board for utility missions. The plan now is to start with the first landings and takeoffs of the fighters on board Vikramaditya within a few weeks.

While Russian aviators have landed and taken off from the carrier during trials in Russia, no Indian pilot has been qualified yet for deck operations.At present, Indian pilots are being trained on simulators to operate from the confines of the small flight deck. A shore-based training facility in Goa, where the MiG 29 K fighter squadrons will be based, is also set to start training pilots on landing and taking off from the carrier. The facility is a replica of the Vikramaditya flight deck — for both taking off from a ski jump and landing with arrestor wires.The certification of both pilots and air controllers has to be completed before the ship can formally join the fleet. A team of around 83 Russian personnel, who sailed with the ship, will remain in Karwar over the next year as part of the one year guarantee of the Sevmash shipyard.

INS Vikramaditya Video with Sea Harriers

Indian Aircraft Carrier INS Vikramaditya Enters The Arabian Sea with probable future battle strike group

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Tight security as INS Vikramaditya (R33) crosses the Suez Canal thru trouble spots towards Arabian Sea

INS Vikramaditya (R33) to reach home base before mid-January 2014.

Indian Navy sources said that the carrier was joined at the Arabian Sea by around 10 warships from Navy’s Western Fleet, led by its commander Rear Admiral Anil Chawla.

Indian Aircraft carrier Vikramaditya (R33) in Lisbon, Portugal

To leave Lisbon for home base tomorrow on 18 Dec 2013.

INS Vikramaditya is now in Lisbon and waiting for refueling in the morning on December 18 ship should head towards the Strait of Gibraltar.

The carrier is now waiting for a tanker in Lisbon, 18 in the morning leave their current parking lot and will go through the Strait of Gibraltar.

7 US aircraft carriers at Bremerton, Washington

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility

Serving Aircraft carriers of the world

The French navy has one nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which is named after the country's late president, Charles de Gaulle

U.S. aircratf carrier Carl Vinson

U.S. aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman

U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower

U.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln

India's only aircraft carrier, the INS Viraat, is a warship that was purchased from the United Kingdom. It was formerly known as the HMS Hermes before being refitted by India

The 17,000-metric ton Principe de Asturias is the aircraft carriers used by the Spanish Navy

The 14,000-metric ton aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi of Italy

Receiving most of its military heritage from the former Soviet Union, Russia now operates the Admiral Kuznetsov, with a displacement of more than 67,000 metric tons