China has reported the completion of long sea trials of the newest aircraft carrier "Shandong" (Type-001A). Aircraft carrier, created in China, I was in the sea about 22 day.
Chinese media reported that, that during this test was carried out several tests on the airplane take off from the deck of the ship and the Chinese, respectively, landing on the deck. emphasizes, that after such tests on the deck, "Shandong" fighter he left tire tracks of its chassis.
It is also reported, that was tested during the test and the so-called Anderson's maneuver with the minimum possible for such a warship radius. Anderson maneuver called one of the salvation of man overboard techniques.
Testing “take-off landing” exercised based fighter J-15, the base model which is the Su-33. This aircraft with folded wings can be seen on the aircraft carrier pictures “Shandong”, returned after tests. Also on Deck Type-001A can see a couple of helicopters Navy People's Liberation Army of China.
According to recent reports, of the Chinese Navy aircraft carrier “Shandong” must enter this fall. and one more aircraft carrier being built at Chinese shipyards “Soviet scheme”. Further embodiments of aircraft carriers, China is going to realize a flat deck – by “American scheme”.
