INS Vikramaditya commissioned

[Penguin]

I know that. But if you look at the aft of the deck there are no markings that out lines the barricade. The barricade is normally located about the last arrester wire. But on the Vikramaditya there is nothing there. This is a serious oversight.

It is deployed on the same points where arresting wires are.

 

[Penguin]

http://*********************/jh4cz/assets/MiG-29K-lands-on-Vikramaditya.jpg

 

[Abingdonboy]

Has anyone else notice that the Vikramaditya doesn't have a barricade ? A barricade is used for emergency landings. Its not a disaster but this simply means that when Indian pilots have problems with their planes they can't make emergency landings on the deck and will have to ditch their planes in the water to be rescued by helicopters.

Nonsense. The VIKY has such a system but it's not a permanent fixture. It will only be used when needed.

 

[sancho]

Crossposting from the key forum (credits to Jinan):

 

[Tridibans]

Crossposting from the key forum (credits to Jinan):

Why R33 bears a Bhutanese flag?

 

[sancho]

Why R33 bears a Bhutanese flag?

Mistake of the website.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Nonsense. The VIKY has such a system but it's not a permanent fixture. It will only be used when needed.

LOLL. Every Carrier has that Barrier. As did the old INS Vikrant or the HMS Hermes/INS Viraat. Though both of them likely never had to unfurl them after they converted to STOVL air ops.

 

[BigDaddyWatch]

Nonsense. The VIKY has such a system but it's not a permanent fixture. It will only be used when needed.

The Vikramaditya doesn't come with a barricade just like it doesn't come with jet blast deflectors and CIWS weapons. I don't see the marking of the barricade on the deck. You can see those markings and outlines like you can see the markings and outlines of a elevator or a jet blast deflector on the deck. The admiral Gorshkov didn't need a barricade just like it didn't need jet blast deflectors because it was a VSTOL carrier were the planes took off and landed vertically. And during the refit they didn't bother to add those things to the ship as it involves cutting open the deck and installing hydraulic systems that may not square with existing systems.

 

[Juice]

The country where this website is based....

Why would the US attack your carrier?

 

[Penguin]

I don't see the marking of the barricade on the deck. You can see those markings and outlines like you can see the markings and outlines of a elevator or a jet blast deflector on the deck. The admiral Gorshkov didn't need a barricade just like it didn't need jet blast deflectors because it was a VSTOL carrier were the planes took off and landed vertically. And during the refit they didn't bother to add those things to the ship as it involves cutting open the deck and installing hydraulic systems that may not square with existing systems.

Oh, I see now, which markings you are referring to on the US ship: for the foldable 'poles' that hold up the barrier.

I don't see any of those markings either on the Kuznetsov/Varyag/Liaoning, which was not designed per se for VSTOL operations... but that type does seem to have them: aside the second most forward arrestor wire. See line drawing and look closely at the Liaoning pic. It goes to show that absence of markings doesn't necessarily mean absence of the barrier.

 

[Penguin]

This line drawing of Vikramaditya does seem to have 'poles' for a barrier (middle arrestor wire)

But this (newer?) one doesn't

and I don't see it on pictures (yet) ... at least not in this pic

But wait, how about this one (see just above the opened canopy for the first Mig29K to the left of the folded wing of the second Mig29K, running from the group of men down and to the left to the single man walking away)

 

[scholseys]

Finally this made in China carrier is commissioned.

 

[Penguin]

Diagram of US aircraft carrier barricade
SourceUS Navy; CV NATOPS Manual

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Finally this made in China carrier is commissioned.

Which Carrier are you talkin' about? Only two carriers have been commissioned recently, neither made in China.
Are you talkin' about the one made in Chalna, right?

 

[Penguin]

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