Rate the likelyhood of the CN pressing the Liaoning into service if China has to evacuate its citizens from some distant country. I am thinking of a Libya type scenario where Chinese nationals were told to immediately leave the country when the Libyan government fell and China was hard pressed to quickly pull its people out.

Hard pressed? I remember reading they chartered a ship and got them out quickly and even some other nationals got to hitch a ride because their countries couldn’t get them out quick enough.

I do not understand why you insist in talking about ICBMs in a discussion about a weapon that was not intended to the deal with ICBMs.

Knocking out ICBMs is how it was promoted at first. Now it’s not just proves my point about hype.

No – as I have just explained, it could be 500 km or more downrange from the launch point. When the threat was a 1,300 km range missile, the ABL would have remained outside of Iranian and North Korean territory.

Moon light says 5-6 secs at 500 km. That’s a long time to fix your laser at the same spot.

The ABL was never intended to engage cruise missiles.

And that’s why an enemy can circumvent ABL and the ideal conditions that are needed to make this work.

even the S-400 can only reach 400 km :confused: so i dont think the 500-600 km of YAL-1 is short , not to mention it can shotdown SAM as well , and the smaller SAM seem to be easier to intercept than ICBM :rolleyes:

A nuclear armed country is going to have more tricks up their sleeves than that. Like an adversary is only going to have air defenses around the ICBM? You’re a perfect example of what I’m talking about ideal conditions. You need a S-400 stationed next to the ICBM being launched in order for this laser to get a chance. How far does this airbourne laser have to travel to get into range? Sorry to tell you but the country you want to stop isn’t going to allow an enemy airbourne laser to loiter over their territory just so it can knock down one of their ICBMs. You can have this laser how far outside enemy territory then when a launch is detected how fast can it get into range? The answer is the US would’ve already been hit by that ICBM by the time it gets into range. That’s called too late. Now who’s rolling eyes?

It’s all hype. Laser energy dissipates the longer the distance. So that means the longer the laser will have to be trained on the target in order to burn through. They’re tricking you so you can go wow in that video seeing the laser and the target in action in the same picture. All that says is it’s works in short range and in the most ideal conditions. Short range enough to be easily shot down.

I just took another look at the landing after the first flight.
Can it be that the nose landing gear actually touches ground and then lifts up again?
The aircraft seems to pitch up AFTER touchdown, lifting the nose landing gear well above the surface.

Crappy piloting or crappy engineering?

Wishing thinking or denial?

I bet you saw the bad quality footage of the angle from the front. Look at the other video where you get a side angle and it doesn’t touch the ground at all.

You mean like fabricating evidence to go to war with Iraq over WMDs that were never found for a terrorist attack comitted by mostly Saudis whose leader was hiding in Afghanistan? How about Grenada or Panama? What about leaders elected in a democracy that the West doesn’t like therefore bully until the democracy picks a leader that meets with teh West’s approval. Pretty hypocrtical to go around calling others bullies.

Weaker neighbors? I wouldn’t call Japan a weaker neighbor. And look at that weaker neighbor the Philippines who had their militia invade Malayasian territory calling it historically belonging to the Philippines. Malayasian military forces have suffered some casualties from the invasion.

I read someone post how the empennage on the Y-20 when it first came out was a sign of poor overall aerodynamic design. What does that say of the C-17 then?

J 20 is very big,fat and long for a fighter even in the heavy fighter class,its empty weight whould almost certainly be 50,000lb+ and its wing loading whould be very high and heavy because of its small wings and wing area even with the canards. I am confused is it confirmed that J20 is longer than 21 meters?

If you want to say the same for a Su-33… yes. Why don’t you check the recent satellite images. It’s shorter.