Why would the page make any difference?
00X/004 future nuclear CATOBAR carrier thread
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Why would the page make any difference?
Y'all chill mans why is everyone on this forum so uptight about this shit we're (most of us are) ABCs with nothing better to do with our time or the like and not 'hot-blooded young soldiers serving in the PLA for the Great Patriotic Sino-American War' or summ.
Because we expect a basic level of posting etiquette so that people can adequately read what is being conveyed.
Even if people are here spending time because they have nothing better to do, we expect a basic level of etiquette and common sense.
If it is useful, one can view this forum as a way to learn to communicate as their best self rather than their worst self.
There are other platforms where expectations are lower.
I wasn't even upset lol, just confused. Like the reply button doesn't cost you anything to use, why would you not? And what does the page have anything to do with it? It's not a big deal either way, just weird is all. The same way you would give someone an odd look if they went down the stairs backwards, and explained by saying it's Tuesday.
I meant to say that I agree the vessel cannot be identified as a carrier based on the current satellite images.
The current structure in the dock may look short, but that’s because we might only be seeing the central hull section, plus the front section (where you are seeing a gap) which would then be lifted and attached once the main hull is built up.
This isn't atypical for carrier construction. The bow and stern modules are built separately and added later via lift. On the Ford, for example, the main hull section visible in dry dock during early construction phases was around 200 meters. The overall length comes together in stages, not all at once. See these pictures:
So we could be seeing only the part I marked in red with the rest(aka the thin line of keel blocks for the stern and bow modules) coming later:
That is not to say that you're wrong. It might indeed not be the 004 at all. But nothing that we've seen excludes it yet, either. Not the size and not the arrangement of the keel blocks.
By78's argument that we haven't heard anything from any real, credible sources is much more convincing than trying to interpret the satellite pictures in a way that makes a carrier impossible.
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And to add to that: This is, supposedly, taken with a gigantic heap of salt, a test module of the stern. A more rounded version than the 003's angular stern.
Seems the island still with a chimney at the rear? And the island is still a bit long?
The "chimney" on the mockup is much smaller than CV-18. It does not make any sense to be chimney.
The overall length of the super structure of Nimitz (including the separate tower) is relatively longer than CV-18 and the mockup if we use their aft deck width as reference. This means that the dimension of the super structure is not a good judgement. Ford class has a extremely small tower doesn't mean any larger tower is conventional.
I would say that even if the "chimney" like structure on the mockup stays on the deck eventually, it is still not enough to say what power plant it is.
OMG don't give the "has chimney but still nuclear" people any ideas. We can't go through that again