The Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark — the first Formosan carrier - base scrapper that is design to gibe and even outgo the American F / A-18E / F Super Hornet — is no longer a test image . This photo register to the full operative serial unitson the deck of the Liaoning , People ’s Liberation Army Navy ’s aircraft letter carrier .
According to the US Naval Institute,“these aircraft are very likely free-base at the newly construct bag near Huludao , Liaoning Province . Purpose - built as a carrier training deftness , the base boasts of 24 shelters for a regiment of fighter - sized aircraft , sustentation hangars , as well as ski - jumps and escape - pack of cards markings that retroflex those find oneself on the Liaoning . ”
Together with the Liaoning — a refurbished Soviet Kuznetsov - category postman — these J-15s complete China ’s very first step towards the world of a naval military force that can serve their global strategical interests and , eventually , be capable of facing the US Navy in combat . At this point , however , they are still very far away from matching the unique power of the US Navy — both in numbers of ships and aircraft as well as technical superiority . Even if the United States stopped to construct new vessel and aircraft justly now , it will take the Chinese at least a ten or two to get anywhere near the level of the American naval forces . Still , make the power to put an line base anywhere in the world is something that ca n’t be ignored .
The Liaoning aircraft carrier in activeness .
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