According to 兔子家的种花人(and Captain repeating that claim) we could be seeing radiation shielding components. This is just one persons's interpretation, so it might very well be very wrong:
00X/004 future nuclear CATOBAR carrier thread
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It just points to a very large ship. Of course, the extremely slow rate of construction also points to a military ship. So, two and two together we can be somewhat sure whatever is in the dry dock is a very large, navy ship. The only options would really be either the 004 or 076.
We don't know if this is going to be even included in the design. Word from Captain is 004 is going to use conventional hull form like US carriers and not the bulged soviet hulls so the beam measured is probably going to be the actual beam width at the waterline.
But the outlook is still too questionable, with some features of Pugliese system (an Italian Style!!!!!!!!!)
We'll see when more blocks are placed, but even then HuangJiaHu facility was still measured to have a deck width of over 80 meters so it does make sense for such a wide beam
43m width is way too small of a ship
It is not though, Ford class is only 41m wide. 43m for a carrier if confirmed is basically unheard of and would mean it's the largest carrier ever built in the world by displacement and size.
