乌克兰高官：中国印度想使用航母训练基地

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VOA Chinese, Aug 12, 2013.
http://www.voachinese.com/conten ... 130812/1728003.html

Quote:

"俄罗斯战略专家科诺瓦洛夫说，前苏联的所有航空母舰都在乌克兰建造。位于乌克兰克里米亚半岛的'尼特卡'基地是前苏联唯一的一个训练航空母舰舰载飞行员的基地。科诺瓦洛夫说：'苏联时代仅有一个陆上的模拟航母飞行员起降的训练基地。这个基地拥有复杂设施。训练基地上有模拟航母甲板的起降跑道，还有可勾住和拦截舰载机降落用的阻拦索等。' 科诺瓦洛夫说，'尼特卡'基地的跑道还设有专门的机械装置，可模拟海浪引起的甲板晃动。

"乌克兰军备问题专家德姆丘克说 * * * 互联网上前些年曾出现过照片，显示中国模仿'尼特卡'已建成了自己的舰载机飞行员训练基地。但这些消息都无法得到确认。

"乌克兰媒体报道，中国几年前也曾计划租赁'尼特卡'训练基地，但因为俄罗斯不想同中国共同使用这个基地 * * * 乌克兰把'尼特卡'训练基地完全出租给了俄罗斯。

Note: "俄罗斯目前正在巴伦支海为印度测试已经改装的，前苏联时期建造的'戈尔什科夫海军上将'号航母，这艘航母预计将在今年12月交付印度海军服役。'库兹涅佐夫海军上将'号航母是'戈尔什科夫海军上将'的深度改进型。"
(a) Barents Sea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barents_Sea
(the sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barents [c 1550-1597, who worked for the Netherlands, not Russia])
(b) Kiev-class aircraft carrier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev-class_aircraft_carrier
(name changes for the fourth ship of the class: Baku (1987–1991), Admiral Gorshkov (1991-1995), now Vikramaditya [Sanskrit meaning "Brave as the Sun"] ([e]ntering Indian service in 2013))
(c) China's aircraft carrier Liaoning is the second ship in Kuznetsov class. See List of aircraft carriers of Russia and the Soviet Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis ... nd_the_Soviet_Union


(2) India, China Interested in Ukraine’s Carrier Pilot Training Site - Minister. RIA Novosti, Aug 9, 2013.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20130809/ ... ite---Minister.html

Note:
(a) Novofedorivka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novofedorivka
(a Ukrainian Air Force base (formerly Soviet Naval Aviation) in western Crimean Peninsula;  the base was also home to the only Soviet aircraft carrier landing trainer and test site, the Nazyemniy Ispitateiniy Treynirovochniy Kompleks Aviatsii (NITKA))
(b) For Yeisk, see Yeysk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeysk
(The town is build [in 1848] primarily on the Yeya Spit, which separates the Yeya River from the Sea of Azov)

* spit (n): "a small point of land especially of sand or gravel running into a body of water"
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spit
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India, China Interested in Ukraine’s Carrier Pilot Training Site - Minister
17:41 09/08/2013

KIEV, August 9 (RIA Novosti) - India and China are interested in using Ukraine’s carrier-deck pilot training site in Crimea, a senior defense official said Friday.

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry told RIA Novosti in mid-July that Moscow had officially informed Kiev that it will not use the Nitka site in 2013.

“There are other countries that are showing some interest in using Nitka. These are India, China and others,” Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Mozharovskiy said.

No agreements have been reached with those nations to that effect yet, he said, adding that Russia has not officially ruled out operating the Nitka facility in future, and Ukrainian-Russian negotiations on the issue are ongoing.

In March, Ukrainian First Deputy Defense Minister Oleksandr Oleinik said Ukraine, which does not operate fixed-wing shipborne naval aircraft, was considering leasing out the Nitka training site to other countries.

Under a 1997 bilateral agreement, Russia has occasionally used Nitka, currently the only land-based training facility for its carrier-based fixed-wing pilots.

In May, Russian Navy Commander Admiral Viktor Chirkov said a new Russian carrier-deck pilot training site near Yeisk, on Russia's Black Sea coast would be ready for operation by next year.

Work on the training facility “is proceeding according to plan,” he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The Nitka Center was built in the Soviet era for pilots to practice taking-off and landing from aircraft carrier decks. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the facility remained under Ukraine’s control.

The center has facilities including a launch pad, a catapult launch device and arrester wires, a glide-path localizer, a marker beacon, and an optical landing system.

India is awaiting delivery of a refurbished Russian aircraft carrier which will operate Russian MiG-29K fighter jets. China only has one carrier, from which naval aircraft were seen operating for the first time last year, and has little experience of fixed-wing naval operations.

Most other aircraft carrier operators either use short take-off/vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft whose crews would not need a facility like Nitka, or have their own such facilities, or use only ships for training.