A 60,000 metrics tons carrier with not one, not two, not three, but FOUR catapults. No wonder it was abandoned. /s
00X/004 future nuclear CATOBAR carrier thread
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Because:
1. That module is a test/experimentation module, which is always built sometime before the actual ship construction work starts. Both the 003 CV Fujian and 076 LHD Sichuan have similar test/experimentation modules built sometime before the actual start of their construction.
2. Keel up, yes, but warships today are often built using modular construction method, i.e. ship module are fabricated first before being hauled for assembly inside a drydock/assembly hall.
In the meantime, given that said test/experimentation module has been spotted by satellite as early as early-mid 2024, I'd say that the actual construction work on the 004 CVN would've already started by now, even if only at preliminary stages.
Why haven't we heard any news from JNCX yet？There are no more CVs？
For one - In contrast to the Guancha Trios, @Captain 小潇 on Weibo strongly refutes the notion on the existence of Fujian's sister ship (i.e. CV-19). That is, the next Chinese carrier will be nuclear-powered, and that the Guancha Trio didn't really mean it*.
(*it = simultaneous construction of CV-19 and CVN-20)
The other would be that there is still no observable proof at Jiangnan Shipyard which indicates that the construction of CV-19 is already underway. If the first modules have already been fabricated (if the claim of CV-19 construction is indeed factual), then they are either still stored underneath fabrication halls, or we still haven't manage to identify them.
Either way, I suppose it remains to be seen whether we would see CV-19 and CVN-20, or just CVN-19 and CVN-20 onwards, straight-away.
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asif iqbal
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It doesn’t follow Chinese carrier construction
keel laid with modules dropped in by crane in a systematic synchronized method
probably a test like we seen back in 2013
but also good news that DL has some sort of carrier activity which we all suspected
keel laid with modules dropped in by crane in a systematic synchronized method
probably a test like we seen back in 2013
but also good news that DL has some sort of carrier activity which we all suspected