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Do we have a name yet?
CV-17 Shandong (002 carrier) Thread I ...News, Views and operations
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Apologies, I hadn't realised. I only just saw the news circulating on the Chinese boards and thought it was new material.
re #701....
CV 16 was named Liaoning. It was from a rusty hull to what it is now. Dalian shipyard is in Liaoning Province; hence, CV 16 Liaoning.
The chosen name represents one of the coastal provinces....
As Hainan Province is at South China Sea, and China attaches great importance to it...I think CV 17 may be named Hainan.
Similarly, CV 18 may be named Zhejiang where JNCX shipyard is located at.....
That's my two bob worth.....
CV 16 was named Liaoning. It was from a rusty hull to what it is now. Dalian shipyard is in Liaoning Province; hence, CV 16 Liaoning.
The chosen name represents one of the coastal provinces....
As Hainan Province is at South China Sea, and China attaches great importance to it...I think CV 17 may be named Hainan.
Similarly, CV 18 may be named Zhejiang where JNCX shipyard is located at.....
That's my two bob worth.....
They are a good way before launch.
If we go by the Liaoning as an example, here is how she looked at launch. But the Liaoning emerged from dry dock painted, but with all of he work on the island to do and all of the weapons to be added and the flight deck to have its zinc chromate finish and painting done.
The Type 001A is doing a lot of that now before launch...but still has to be painted.
It (the Liaoning) did not have a "launch" like the Type001A will.
I believe it will be further along than the Liaoning was when it came out of dry dock after being refitted for several years.
Here she was coming out of it...and her hull was painted at the time:
If we go by the Liaoning as an example, here is how she looked at launch. But the Liaoning emerged from dry dock painted, but with all of he work on the island to do and all of the weapons to be added and the flight deck to have its zinc chromate finish and painting done.
The Type 001A is doing a lot of that now before launch...but still has to be painted.
It (the Liaoning) did not have a "launch" like the Type001A will.
I believe it will be further along than the Liaoning was when it came out of dry dock after being refitted for several years.
Here she was coming out of it...and her hull was painted at the time:
Island get exact design here ?
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No, not. The drawing is a mixture of few facts (old Liaoning-shape island) and much more dreams (Type 001A-shape carrier with waist catapult).
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