CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[lcloo]

If they are mockups, how did they get onboard unless they were already onboard when the ship departed?

They were hoisted onboard before the first sea trial and have been on the ship since then.

 

[Iron Man]

Looks like a cloud to me. If it was a shock trial it not only looks too close for comfort for such a large explosion, it's also weird the 003 is turning towards the 'blast' as it's going off.

 

[Paulo R Siqueira]

 

[vincent]

If they are mockups, how did they get onboard unless they were already onboard when the ship departed?

Maybe the mockups were in the hangar when the ship set sail.

 

[Iron Man]

This video makes it even more likely that photo represents a cloud. Otherwise, that 'blast' in the photo would have been a massive one with twice the length of the 003, whereas the blast in the Ford video was less than the length of the Ford. Also, the 003 is angled wrt the 'blast', which seems would not be a good way to test the integrity of the bulkheads since the stern of the 003 would receive far less force than the bow.

 

[Phantom Chuck]

I tried Winxvideo AI to run the enhancement process. It looks a little bit better now.
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The stain 1/4 of the way along the angle deck look like landing tire skid marks.

 

[ENTED64]

The stain 1/4 of the way along the angle deck look like landing tire skid marks.

The definition is really quite bad, I can't really make out what you're seeing. We do know that they've already conducted touch and goes so maybe it's just more of those.

 

[lcloo]

Human psychology is such that people always see what they want to see in blur images, whiich is very normal.

Without any bias thought, the first thing to look for in an underwater explosion is the effect on the water surface. They will be waves and boiling bubbles rising out from underwater. The picture shows calm water. No doubt this image is blur but the huge explosion should caused visible effect on water surface even in such a blur photo, such as the white wake at the stern of Fujian. The water surface under the cloud is calm.

Clearly what we see is white cloud, with shadows on the sea surface. Underwater explosion usually do not produce such huge amount of smoke in the air unless the explosive was planted very near the surface.

Is such white cloud alone in a blue sky normal? Yes, it actually is. If you have been out to sea, or in a rural plain, you might see them often. I personally have seen them, on land and at sea.

 

[Neurosmith]

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Human psychology is such that people always see what they want to see in blur images, whiich is very normal.

Without any bias thought, the first thing to look for in an underwater explosion is the effect on the water surface. They will be waves and boiling bubbles rising out from underwater. The picture shows calm water. No doubt this image is blur but the huge explosion should caused visible effect on water curface even in such a blur photo. The water surface here is calm.

Clearly what we see is white cloud, with shadows on the see surface. Underwater explosion usually do not produce such huge amount of smoke in the air unless the explosive was planted very near the surface.

Is such white cloud alone in a blue sky normal? Yes, it actually is. If you have been out to sea, or in a rural plain, you might see them often. I personally have seen them, on land and at sea.

I've noticed that the media didn't report this as a sunken submarine this time.

Journalism seems to be moving in the right direction.

 

[obj 705A]

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Human psychology is such that people always see what they want to see in blur images, whiich is very normal.

Without any bias thought, the first thing to look for in an underwater explosion is the effect on the water surface. They will be waves and boiling bubbles rising out from underwater. The picture shows calm water. No doubt this image is blur but the huge explosion should caused visible effect on water surface even in such a blur photo, such as the white wake at the stern of Fujian. The water surface under the cloud is calm.

Clearly what we see is white cloud, with shadows on the sea surface. Underwater explosion usually do not produce such huge amount of smoke in the air unless the explosive was planted very near the surface.

Is such white cloud alone in a blue sky normal? Yes, it actually is. If you have been out to sea, or in a rural plain, you might see them often. I personally have seen them, on land and at sea.

just looking at the Ford CVN video above. aside from the initial shockwave which disappeared in few mili seconds there are no clear waves after it. in the case of the Fujian couple that with the blur and then there would be no way to see waves assuming this is a shock test.
I'm not saying this is a shock test or just a cloud. I'm just saying we cannot rule out any possibility because the image is too low resolution to reach a conclusion.