CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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There is no need to go anywhere near 4% of China's GDP for military spending, but yes, Chinese wartime production levels would likely look extraordinary, assuming production was uninterrupted.
My guestimate is that mass-produced Chinese nuclear carriers with an airwing would be in the ballpark of $10 Bn. And let's say they commission 1 per year, as a peacetime cold-war scenario.
For another $10 Bn, they could get 5?? Type-095 SSNs every year.
After 10 years, that's 10 nuclear supercarriers plus 50 SSNs.
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That's an annual procurement cost of $20 Bn, or about 0.2% of China's GDP.
Of course, you have operating costs as well, but the final figure might only be 0.4%? of GDP after 10 years.
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End of discussion, as per Deino
I thought it was a joke on the cranes.
We already know that the angle of ski jump of CV-17 is different from CV-16. It is new to me that the video says that the shape (形线) of the whole ship (CV-17) is also different. It took one and half year to design. So IMO CV-17 is a new ship from CV-16 instead of improvement/upgrade/variant, similar to the relationship between Nimitz and Ford.
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Well, of course it is, given the extreme difference in size alone. The same way that 1143.5 (i.e. 001/001A) is quite different from 1143.4(Vikramaditya), despite their common 1143 number.
They are still probably closely related (hence all the 1143.9 jokes) though, but it's crystal clear that it's a new design. It can't be anything else.
Fujian is due to return to Jiangnan tomorrow after wrapping up her 1st sea trial. Posted by @horobeyo on Twitter.
