PLA Navy and Naval Air Force

A cargo ship with a flat top so large helicopters can land is not really the same as a proper helicopter landing ship with 5 times more helicopters and two naval infantry brigades and their armour and four landing ships on board...

The first prototype of the Chinese AWACS carrier-based aircraft made its first flight

It is reported that on August 29, 2020, the first prototype of the Chinese carrier-based AWACS and control aircraft made its maiden flight at the Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation airfield in Xi'an.

The aircraft will be equipped with the KLC-7 aviation radar with an active phased antenna array (AFAR) developed by the Chinese state electronics industry corporation China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC).

The new Chinese carrier-based AWACS and control system is intended to be included in the air group of a promising Chinese aircraft carrier, which is being built at a shipyard in Shanghai.






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Clear picture of the modified PLAN sovremenny. Looks like the engines are working good. No black smoke there..

Troll.

The only Sovs with smoke problems suffer from attention via Photoshop and western trolls like you...

Troll on your self. I have no western agenda. If anything a very east intrest. If anyone should be called a troll its you..a Russian one. Suspect

The question was raised earlier if the engines had been updated during the modification of the ships in the class, thats why I posted the picture.

Edit:
By you even it seems....

"A good idea to keep the guns... they will be very useful supporting landings and with new technology in guided shells they could become rather versatile weapons... if they choose to buy of develop something similar themselves.

Have heard they had issues with the propulsion... hope that is sorted out too."

Btw there is a video of one going under a bridge in the baltic sea, it repainted the bridge in black with its smoke so yeah that ship smkes a lot.

Smoke coming out of the smoke stack is not an engine problem, and all ship engines smoke from time to time.

There were problems with the Sovs engines in terms of reliability and maintenance issues as well, but nothing ever to do with whether it smoked to some western standard that western ships are never held to.

They are called smoke stacks for a reason, their purpose is to move the smoke emitted from the engines of the ship away from the deck... even if they didn't smoke at all the heat would stand out like a smoke screen on a thermal imaging system to much greater distances than any smoke because smoke is generally cold and very hot plumes of gas don't naturally occur at sea... a good indicator that there is a ship there.

And I will politely tell you not to call me a troll again.

You are right, what you did was not trolling... it was flame baiting.

Anyone has a picture of the hangar ? Does that class has one ?

Yes, it does.

A Chinese model:



and a Soviet one with the door open:



The hangars are small but with the rotors folded the Helix is tiny.

Satellite images of the Chinese naval aviation ground test and training complex

The original was taken from colleague dambiev in Satellite images of the Chinese ground test and training complex for naval aviation The Chinese complex was built at the Huandikong airfield, located on the shores of the Bohai Bay of the Yellow Sea, eight kilometers south of the city of Xingcheng, Liaoning province and the Xingcheng airfield of the Chinese Naval Academy of Aviation. The construction of the complex began in 2008 and was completed by 2013, although the first takeoff of the prototype J-15 carrier-based fighter from the complex's springboard took place in January 2012.





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How many photos have you seen them sailing around with a helicopter sitting on the pad?

Why waste space with a half hangar where you can poke the nose of the helicopter into it but not enough to shut the doors...?

That would be odd I would think.

Helix helicopters are very compact and with their main rotors folded are very small, though they are quite tall.

Notice the hangar in the bottom photo above... not enormously deep, though quite tall.

I seem to remember on one ship type the hangar could be extended to fit the helicopter, so the hangars are generally designed to be very compact anyway.

The mini hangars on new ships may be used for multirole Ka-226T helicopters they are thinking of using... they have modular rear pods like thunderbird 2 I think... but obviously TB2 was not a helicopter.