not quite sure if this qualify as modification or rather a mismatch of parts…

Big wings that don’t fly…

well the JASDF actually out did the Y-8 and snoopy…

For now I will take most of this report with a pinch of salt. However the 2010 date keeps coming up and to me that seems like a reasonable amount of time for the PLAN to get the Varyag operational in one form or another. Further more Varyag is ‘non-atomic’ and fits within the tonnage range given for the transitional carrier in the above article. It seems that every week it becomes more and more likely that Varyag will enter service with the PLAN.

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

Well we’ve seen PLAN with its two step approach to war shops now. ie 052C and 051C.

The carrier could also be the case. Although there is no confirmation but increasing the consensus is that the Carrier will be new built and not the Varyag.

A nuke carrier will actually surves PLAN better as it eases the burgen of replenishing a carrier and increases the range of operability of such a naval task group.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/070313/1/bi19.html

Article and photo in Chinese, dated 13 March 2007.
The ROCAF F-5E/F is named Zhong Zheng, after the late ROC President Jiang Zhong Zheng.
As the current ROC government, under President Chen, has been removing references to China, the KMT (Chinese Nationalist Party), and the ROC from the names of ROC government and non-government organisations and sites, such as the KMT memorial hall and ROC post office, by changing “Zhong Hua XXX” to “Taiwan XXX”; some politicians suggest the ROCAF F-5E/F nickname should be dropped.

LOL the name changing issue is surprisingly a dumb move on the part of DDP and playing into PRC hands…
Now Taiwan is defacto the “province” Taiwan at the cost of Taiwanese industry that has to bare significant losses.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/070318/4/bq4z.html

Article in Chinese, dated 19 March 2007.
Rumour about ROCAF resurrecting the concept of buying AV-8B, because the USA has stalled the sale of F-16C/D to Taiwan.

Heh the AV-8B again. Didn’t they reject the original offer due to the refusal of blue vixen radar? Now most of the current airframes are antiques and more suited to be in a museum.
considering that the offer is made along with the eurofighter, Bae seems to be despirate to sell a platform… any platform.

and this is just another AAW DDG with a phased array radar system

Well most of the time its the western media that mades mastakes in labeling new platforms with american platform in mind.

i.e. the 052C was never labeld aegis until Kanwa coined the term red aegis.
Then people picked up the term and somehow it even made it onto the annual report to congress. Now you can’t condemn people for using the term since it already have seen widespread use.

If it’s like comparing mandarines and oranges and condeming those that call a mandarines an orange. Its nice if they knew the difference but quite inconsequential as we know what they mean.

does this mean PAF is going to conduct weapons integration iteself?

Do they have another radar in mind?
Or more importantly what missile do they intend to use since the Chinese maybe unwilling to give out operating code of the SD-10.

And what ever happened to the no RD-93 for Pakistan?

] Seriously, the PRC and the CCP are AFAIK fundamentally ruled by a committee of nine CCP elders, two of whom are Uncle Hu and Uncle Wen. One of the nine, Huang, is as ill as Castro, and fails to appear at the national meetings now going on in Bei Jing.

Wow you must think Hu and Gang must be geniuses’… in order for them to single handily know all the problems and decide upon the course of action for the every law and regulation that is passes during congress.
The truth is Hu know as much about the country as his underlings is willing report and he has as much decision power as the amount of solutions proposed by the national congress. He doesn’t draft the laws, or control interest rate, or order the deployment troops, or simply has any say in the amount of pay a soldier gets.
Most likely the only difference between Hu and Bush is that Hu doesn’t leave office after 4 years.

Btw Huang isn’t ill per say, but ill because his personal underling the then chief secretary (comparatively one step up from mayor) of shanghai is sacked for cruption charges. H’s just riding out the waves till he retire.