00X/004 future nuclear CATOBAR carrier thread

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AndrewS

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tankphobia said:
Building a completely new class of supersized carrier requiring brand new infrastructure seems extremely risky. Not only are you keeping an increased number of very expensive asset (J-XS) in a single basket, but also maintenance will be uniquely vulnerable to disruption due to the increased size and hence reduced number of drydocks that are appropriate.

A couple extra nuclear Fujians will do the job just fine, leaping straight to the biggest when the first CATOBAR carrier is still doing sea trials seems far too ambitious, to put it mildly.
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My view is that they'll have to build additional maintenance drydocks anyway, so they can size for whatever carrier they settle on.

And a nuclear carrier will have to be a completely different design to the Fujian.
The Fujian was originally planned with steam catapults and is presumably an evolution of the Shandong which was STOBAR.

I think the size of the ship matters less than the maturity of the technologies that will be out in the ship.
 
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bsdnf

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I don't think building a new dock is that much of an issue. first 076 was assembled in the Changxing Phase II new dock, which took less than two years to complete. 00X nuclear-powered supercarriers can build a new dock while building in sections. And the PLA will definitely more than one nuclear-powered supercarrier
 
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Deino said:
According to a friend with access to much better images, this „appears to be an incomplete or partially covered J-15. In an HD image it looks like the outer bit of the right wing is exposed and it has the FLANKER style profile and wingtip rail.“

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in case you missed my reply above!

"According to a friend with access to much better images, this „appears to be an incomplete or partially covered J-15. In an HD image it looks like the outer bit of the right wing is exposed and it has the FLANKER style profile and wingtip rail.“"
 
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ACuriousPLAFan

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no_name said:
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Made by someone. I'm not sure about the stern elevator and straight landing layout though, looks like one wide boy.
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Whoever designed the flight deck of that aircraft carrier 3D model doesn't really have a good grasp on how and why CV(N)s are designed the way we see today, even for the relative basics.

There are very good reasons why the flight decks of CV(N)s are designed with the landing strips (angled or straight) running through the longitudinal axis of the warship. Doing like what the guy did with the 3D model above is literally asking for the port side flight deck segments to be snapped off in the long run - Or that the construction costs of the CV(N) stacking up unnecessarily.

The location of the elevator deck at the stern end of the ship (and right beside the stern end of the landing strip at that, lol) too is also hilarious. That's basically calling for improper structural loading concentrations at the portside stern region of the warship.
 
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