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China’s Flying Sharks

... aircraft carriers had qualitatively greater potential in terms of aviation. The only worthy rivals of the U.S. Grumman F-14 Tomcats and McDonnell Douglas F/A 18 Hornets were the MiG-29 and Sukhoi Su-27s. Ground-based fighters are rarely allocated to the navy (there are many more examples of the reverse process taking place). The flight decks of carriers are too short for conventional fighter jets to take offs. This is where the catapult — the universal method of increasing an aircraft’s take-off ...

27.04.2017

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The Future of Russia's Naval Aviation

... group of 15 Soviet-built SU-33s, several SU-25TG training aircraft and helicopters used to take to sea on rare occasions, while prospects for renovation of the carrier aviation were extremely vague. The overall situation prompted elimination of the naval aviation as a Navy service rather than its advance. RIA Novosti Russian fifth-generation fighter Carrier Aircraft: New Hope Prospects for a major change began to dawn in 2011 with the contract on building the Mistral -class amphibious assault ships for the Russian ...

24.07.2014

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U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)