CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

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Nevermore said:
I cannot find evidence proving that 003 and 001, 002 utilize the same aircraft hangar.
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A picture of 002's hangar. We know the front of the hangar ends at the edge of the front hangar door, same as the Kuznetsov and 001. We know the hangar doors are at the same location on Kuznetsov, 001 and 002. We know there is room to fit
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, and appear to be the same case here in 002's hangar. Ergo, the hangar on all three ships are the same size.
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I am not able to upload images as they are "too big" for some reasons, or I would have added annotation. If you look at
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, you would see a deep rectangular opening near the bow, and a partially covered square shallow opening near the stern. You will be able to find them at the same location in this
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. The arrangement of the engine rooms on both ships is A-B-C-B-A, where A is the turbine rooms, B is the boiler rooms, C is neither. These compartments are bounded between the front and rear hangar doors.
 
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I am not able to upload images as they are "too big" for some reasons, or I would have added annotation. If you look at
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, you would see a deep rectangular opening near the bow, and a partially covered square shallow opening near the stern. You will be able to find them at the same location in this
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. The arrangement of the engine rooms on both ships is A-B-C-B-A, where A is the turbine rooms, B is the boiler rooms, C is neither. These compartments are bounded between the front and rear hangar doors.
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ACuriousPLAFan said:
Another notable observation by Big Bun CG on Weibo is the long strip struçture located at the top of the right side of the hangar deck celling (bracketed in yellow) on Fujian in the photo below. That structure is very likely to be a dry goods supply gantry.

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This is similar to how the USN typically conducts underway replenishment of dry goods for their CVNs, where the onboard gantry will be folded up when operating the deck elevator, and be folded down when in use for underway replenishment. With transfer cables and winches attached and connecting said gantry and that on the fast combat support ship, dry goods can be transferred directly into the hangar deck, which enables easier sorting and distribution of dry goods replenishment across the carrier.

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This is an important capability step-up from Liaoning and Shandong, where the dry goods resupply gantry is located outside the hangar deck. This means that the rear deck elevator must be in the lowered position to allow the dry goods that have arrived onboard the carrier to be moved into the hangar deck for sorting and distribution.

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One additional benefit to having similar dry goods supply gantry setup as those onboard the US CVNs is that the deck elevator can be in the up position, which adds additional aircraft/helicopter parking space onto the flight deck which is otherwise not available on the PLAN STOBAR twins.
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The first picture shows Fujian's forward hangar posted last year. There seem to be a cut out on the forward part of the hangar. There is definitely some design changes and improvements. Now to know the details, one must wait for more pictures and news posted within the ship, but that will take a long time before those details can be out.
 
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