Chinese television has published a report from the land training complex NITKA carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Navy.
The test airfield is located on the shore of the Bohai Bay, the press was allowed to visit it in honor of the eighth anniversary of the start of flights from the aircraft carrier "Liaolin". The Chinese complex is an analog of the Russian one in Crimea, where the crews of the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier train.
The story features a j-15 carrier-based fighter with the tail number 552 - it was this aircraft that landed and took off from the Liaolin aircraft carrier on November 20, 2012, marking the birth of the Chinese Navy's carrier-based aviation.
Also in the frame appears a variant of the J-15, adapted for launching from a catapult, writes Dambiev. These devices are equipped with the third Chinese aircraft carrier.
Anton Valagin