It makes perfect sense, a few more meters in length, another meter of beam, alongside various smaller mods one would expect from an improved 003A. Question is will they add another cat or another elevator? Which would it need most? I would say another elevator to speed up aircraft movement, but that's just me.
00X/004 future nuclear CATOBAR carrier thread
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Exactly. You also needs to have troops stationed there, every politician compromised through mass surveilence, and also allow enough grifts to make them stay loyal, and create an organisation like EU to make puppet work against each other for you. The art of neo imperialism goes far beyond just brute force.
A question, some months ago a similar hull study excerpt as we just saw for possibly the 003A was posted of likely the 004, but i can't find it now, from memory the waterline length was 310 meters and width 41 meters (compared to 300x 40 for 003A), is that correct? Could anyone repost that by any chance?
PS: Found it, it was 315x 42 meters, and estimated at 110,000 tons.
PS: Found it, it was 315x 42 meters, and estimated at 110,000 tons.
I only see 2 elevators on the starboard side of the 20. Perhaps they think the elevator aft of the island isn't worth it and will in turn make the other 2 bigger.
really? I thought it was much larger, albeit from a rough estimate just based off of the scale on google maps.
It's for the waterline length, the flight deck is overhanged. Nimitz class's WL line is only 317m with around 16m of overhang. If 004 do indeed max out at over 320m WL than it's definitely possible for a 340m+ flight deck.
There is actually one more elevator at the port side of CVN-20, as denoted by the caution stripes outlining the elevator deck.
In fact, the 3D model of the CVN-20 made by Big Bun CG is actually largely inspired by the Ford CVNs.
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2 elevators on the starboard side of the "CVN-20" with a very aft island (and 1 elevator on the port side next to the waist) is the same overall configuration as Ford class.
340m Flight deck is possible but that would need the ship to squeeze into the drydock with a much lower end to end separation distance than what the Fujian had, a 35% reduction. Using previous satellite imagery, I've made this graphic below. I would put 340m as the maximum possible extent as separation distances below 10m seems highly unlikely.
Fujian in drydock
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I wouldn't necessarily take "spacing between drydock" to be an expected, consistent measure when the sample size is so small.
For example, prior to CV-18, the CV-17 built at Dalian had spacing that was 30m from the bow-most part of the ship to the drydock wall, and nearly 20m at the aftmost part of the ship
Given they're going to be building larger ships in the same drydock, it's more reasonable to surmise that the positioning/spacing of existing ships built so far are simply "under"-sized for what the drydock is able to maximally accommodate.
and if we look at the construction of USN CVNs (in this case a Ford class, USS JFK I believe), they barely have a few meters between the aft flight deck section and the wall of the drydock (the length of the dock means the bow spacing is not a factor), so a spacing of some 10-15m either side seems eminently reasonable.
(That said, I don't really have a horse in the race as to what the actual expected length of DL's carrier will be)
