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gelgoog said:
Quite likely the IEPS systems were not ready on time and like I said they originally thought the CATOBAR carriers would use steam catapults. The change in the design to EMALS on Type 002 was made really late in the design period. Way after the Type 001A began actual construction. It took some major convincing.

So hindsight is 20/20. Yes IEPS would be nicer considering how, say, the QE-class is designed, and that they did go for EMALS in the end. But this was not possible to know nor were the components for IEPS readily available at the time. I think.

Just consider all the components you would need. Higher power gas turbines than the ones used on the Type 055, electric power generators (only recently did news of a 20MW converter become available according to news reports), and electric engines.

I think it is quite likely if they do go for a system like that they will test the IEPS components on a smaller vessel first. Rather than on the carrier. At least that is how I would do it.
Think of how the Type 45 destroyer preceded the QE-class in British service.
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Well, there is also the intermediate step of going for turbo-electric propulsion (100+ year old concept). Seeing that type 002 is also going for steam turbines, that could open the doors to semi-integrated propulsion where the prop shafts and catapults are steam turbine driven and all the other electrical systems are powered through separate generators.
 
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