Video Of Chinese Aircraft Carrier Liaoning CV 16 Setting Sail

Video Of Chinese Aircraft Carrier Liaoning CV 16 Set Sail for a traning mission. Liaoning CV 16  deploys Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark navalized J-11B fighter jet.

Chinese Type 071 YUZHAO Class Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD)

Chinese Type 071 YUZHAO Class Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD) is armed with 1x AK-176 76 mm gun and 4x 30 mm  AK-630 close-in weapon system (CIWS). Type 071 YUZHAO LDPs are capable of carrying 15 armored vehicles along with 800 soldiers of the People's Liberation Army.

Its flight deck allows operations of both Z-8 Super Frelon and Z-9 Haitun helicopters.

Detailed illustration of the Chinese Type 071 YUZHAO Class Amphibious Transport Dock (LPD)

Indian Navy INS Vikramaditya Aircraft Carrier

Scaled model of the Indian Navy's INS Vikramaditya Aircraft Carrier along with its aircomplement of Mig-29k Fighter jets and Kamov Ka-31 Helix Airborne Early Warning (AEW) helicopter.

Indian Navy's INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier will hae an aircomplement of 16-24 MiG-29K/KUB fighter jets , 4 Ka-31 Airborne Early Warning helicopters and 4 helicopters for anti-submarine warfare carrier (ASW).

Chinese Y-8 GX6 Turboprop Maritime Patrol and Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft

Chinese Y-8/9 GX6 Turboprop Long Range Maritime Patrol and Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft which is being developed for the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy). 

The Y-8/9 GX6 Maritime Patrol and Anti-Submarine Warfare Aircraft is outfitted with a multi-mission surface search radar, a Electro-Optical (EO)/Infrared (IR) sensors turret and a magnetic anomaly detector (MAD) boom.

USN USS Shiloh (CG-67) Spotted With Chinese Type 052C Luyang-II Destroyer

USS Shiloh (CG-67) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser United States Navy (USN) visits ZhanJiang.

USS Shiloh (CG-67) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser spotted with the Type 052C (Luyang-II Class) Guided Missile Destroyer of Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy).

Zubr Class Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) Arrives in China

Zubr class air-cushioned landing craft has arrived in the Zhujiang River in Guangzhou, capital city of south China's Guangzhou Province. Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy) has purchase four Zubr Class Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) from Feodosiya Shipbuilding Company in the Ukraine.

MQ-4C Triton Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System

The MQ-4C Triton broad area maritime surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) flew for the first time on May 22, 2013. The MQ-4C Triton is variant of the RQ-4B Global Hawk operated by the Hawk United States Air Force (USAF). 

 The MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system (UAS) can carry 1,452kg of payload internally and 1,089kgs on external hard points.

The MQ-4C Triton Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System  is capable of maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) missions up to 24 hours at altitudes greater than 15,000 m at a radius of 3,700 km.

The MQ-4C Triton flew for eight minutes flight in restricted airspace, the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft, controlled by ground-based Navy and Northrop Grumman personnel, reached 20,000 feet altitude.

First Indian P-8I Poseidon Maritime & Anti Submarine Warfare Aircraft Delivered

Indian Navy has taken the delivery of the 1st of 8 Boeing P-8I Poseidon Long Range Maritime Reconnaissance and Anti Submarine Warfare (LRMRASW) aircrafts. The P-8I Poseidon is based on the modified Boeing 737-800(NG) airframe.

American X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS)

American X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator on the fligh deck of the United States Navy's USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) Aircraft Carrier.

Mig-29K Fighter Jet Becomes Operational With Indian Navy

Indian Navy has commission has 1st squadron ( INAS 303 'Black Panthers) of the carrier-based MiG-29K naval fighter jet at the INS Hansa naval airbase in Dabolim, Goa.

MiG-29K naval fighter jet will oeprate from the INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier.

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