Um, I was referring to the J-15.:o

It is clearly visible under the tailcone in the BW wireframe above (which has filename j15g.jpg)
As for the photographs, most are too blurry to tell.

This pic, however, I think you can distinguish the hook under the tailcone.

While I won’t claim to have the slightest degree of technical expertise with aircraft, none of those pics show an arrestor hook.

It should be snug underneath the SU33s rear radar cone (which is smaller and shaped differently compared to a regular SU-27)

Russia mulls purchase of Ukrainian missile cruiser

Russia considers purchasing an unfinished missile cruiser from Ukraine, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky said on Saturday.

Construction of the Slava class Admiral Lobov cruiser was launched in 1984 at the Nikolayev shipyard in Ukraine but stalled in the late 1980s due to a sharp reduction in military expenditure.

The cruiser was renamed the Ukraina in 1992.
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THey are leaving it wide open (but surely there will be some form of pay off for the use of facilties on Ukrainian soil.)

“We agreed with the Ukrainian side that we will consider all variants of the ship’s fate and present our proposals by the next meting in the fourth of the year,” Vysotsky said

A senior Russian Navy official told RIA Novosti the cruiser was only 50% complete and that the repairs and upgrade would cost up to 35 billion rubles.

He said that while this sum was enough to buy four Kilo class non-atomic submarines or four Steregushchy class corvettes for the Russian Navy, Moscow may still press ahead with the purchase as part of the wider campaign to reset relation with Kiev.

The BPE is US style, it is basically a modified Sea Control Ship.

10,000 tons worth of ‘modification’?! I think you’re selling the BPE design seriously short.

Bundesmarine was before 1990 – now ist called Deutsche Marine 😉

But i think, the structure of 9000 will be not not reality…it´s now just a example

Ja, ab 1990 ist die aktuelle Bezeichnis ‘Deutsche Marine’. However, it is still Bundesrepublic Deutschland and Bundeswehr isn’t is? So, technically, to refer to Bundesmarine is not incorrect.

Die deutsche Einheit im Jahr 1990 wurde im rechtlichen Sinne nicht durch die Vereinigung zweier Staaten, sondern durch den Beitritt der fünf neuen Länder sowie dem wiedervereinigten Berlin zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland vollzogen. Mit der DDR sind ihre Institutionen untergegangen, während die der Bundesrepublik fortbestehen, so auch bezüglich der Streitkräfte. Personal und in geringem Umfang das Material der Volksmarine der DDR wurden übernommen. Die Führung der Marine hat 1995 trotz der institutionellen Kontinuität entschieden, die bisherige, stets inoffizielle, Bezeichnung Bundesmarine nicht mehr zu verwenden, sondern fortan den Begriff Deutsche Marine in allen offiziellen Texten zu benutzen

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Marine

If the purpose structure of 9000 (18000 now) official posts became a reality, the German navy becomes for the first time smaller than of the Netherlands Navy(10000 official posts).

Source: http://www.kn-online.de/schleswig_holstein/aus_dem_land/157904-Vorzeitiger-Abschied-von-den-Schnellbooten.html

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Though I have no ill will towards the Bundesmarine, the Koninklijke Marine will be pleased. After the thrashing it received, at least the Dutch navy will now have this going for it.

Interesting in the LHD pics is their role in refuelling their own escorts. Much like one finds in Spanish navy flattops (both) and Thai flattop. Have not seen this facility in e.g. Invincible, Garibaldi, Cavour, Mistral, Hyuga, Dokdo etc.

Wouldn’t mind owning me a bird like the L-29 … 😀

The only thing odd about this is the Israeli ship, the rest is just the Truman group which is on a routine deployment.

I’m sure they (the Israeli’s) would prefer this to going around the Cape (which they have no problem doing, if necessary, as they’ve demonstrated in the past). And going together with a large group of US ships provides some extra security/protection, I would think, just in case. Also, it may just be that traffic control set it up this way, to have all navy ships that presented themselves move as a single group.