Aircraft wing perspective of the Chinese aircraft carrier will increase by 50% compared with the number of aircraft on an aircraft carrier "Lyaolin". Liaoning is the former heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Varyag", purchased from Ukraine. Russian "Admiral Kuznetsov" is built with him on a project.
Earlier this month, the promising Chinese aircraft carrier 001A was his seventh Test in the Yellow Sea. The Chinese edition of South China Morning Post evaluate the potential of the new ship, comparing it to the already existing in China available to the aircraft carrier "Lyaolin". According to the author, promising ship surpasses the former Soviet "Varyag", China bought from Ukraine.
According to data published in the article,, 001A type of got wings 36 J-15 fighter. "Lyaolin" on board has 24 Aircraft. The new carrier is an upgraded version of Liaoning ("Varyag"), and, in fact, heir to the heavy aircraft carrier project 1143.5.
Another obvious difference will be reduced "island" control tower and a greater head of ship construction program Hu Wenming, in an interview with CCTV channel.
Both platforms look almost identical, but in terms of design, used technologies and development they differ greatly.
– said Hu, president of the China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSIC).
Total displacement of an aircraft carrier under construction – 70 000 tonnes, compared with 58 600 tons in the "Liaoning". Besides, the ship received a longer take-off site - 315 meters against 304.
Type 001A will receive a digital radar system Type 346 "Sea Star" with the active phased array antenna. Among other things,, "Liaoning" is on board, the crew is about 2000 human. Both ships operate on chetyrehvalnyh steam turbines, however, the maximum speed is less promising carrier grandparent: 31 anti-node 32 the former "Varyag".
China has accumulated large when upgrading "Liaoning", and it has helped to build and operate a Type 001A.
-He emphasizes military expert from Hong Kong Song Chzhunpin.
Former heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Varyag" was laid 6 December 1985 years at the shipyard of the Black Sea Shipyard in Nikolaev under the name of "Riga". In 1990, it changed its name. After the collapse of the USSR the ship departed Ukraine, after which its construction was stopped. AT 1998 It was sold to China. Since 2005, the Chinese state-owned corporation engaged in the modernization of the aircraft carrier CSIC shipyard in Dalian. The ship was handed over to China in Navy 2012 year.
Aircraft J-15, It is the main wing Liaoning, It is based on a carrier-based fighter Su-33. aircraft prototype, T-10K, It was bought on the same Ukraine in 2001,, and carefully studied the Chinese engineers. Besides, presumably, formed in the base plane and J-11 technology, I am a copy of the Su-27.
