CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[dentrs]

I don't think so. Even in the videos where the ship took up a small fraction of the video length (7-8 seconds out of 50+ seconds), it should have been within their capabilities to make all of the footage (not just the ship, but of the overall commissioning ceremony, including Xi) have a higher quality as the first release.

I suspect there just isn't much of an overlap between talented media/PR individuals, and individuals who understand military matters, while also being able to follow state media goals.
That is to say, it's just a case of general incompetence rather than deliberate 3D chess

Anyway, I digress. This will be my last comment on the matter -- at this point state media incompetence is less of a frustration than an amusing feature of PLA watching, to tick off on the proverbial bingo list for any new development

Could it be the high-res materials just needed to be heavily vetted because Fujian and its techs are pretty new? The ceremony was on 5 Nov. And 2 days for passing all the security/secrecy related red tapes doesn't seem bad at all.

 

[Blitzo]

Could it be the high-res materials just needed to be heavily vetted because Fujian and its techs are pretty new? The ceremony was on 5 Nov. And 2 days for passing all the security/secrecy related red tapes doesn't seem bad at all.

I'm not talking about the delay between the event happening and the release of initial imagery/footage.

I'm saying that the first release of any imagery/footage should be high quality to begin with; considering the delay between release of first imagery/footage (which was poor quality) and higher quality imagery/footage was only a few hours, it is not related to any clearance issues.


Besides there's nothing on the commissioning ceremony which we haven't already seen anyway from the aviation trial footage a couple months ago

 

[Syrida2887]

Some pictures of news reports

 

[Ghkzxc]

The man changed catapult




The man changed it back

 

[00CuriousObserver]

10 minutes of Fujian goodness in today's Xinwen Lianbo 新闻联播. There should be more HD imagery coming.

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Catapult launcher slowing. Pay attention to the flags in the back; this is in real time.

https://imgur.com/cqQlaHk

https://imgur.com/ABDeyAp

 

[xiabonan]

The almost "slow mo" like stop of the catapult is just so freaking cool. I've been staring at it for a few minutes now just can't watch enough of it.

 

[Temstar]

10 minutes of Fujian goodness in today's Xinwen Lianbo 新闻联播. There should be more HD imagery coming.

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Catapult launcher slowing. Pay attention to the flags in the back; this is in real time.

https://imgur.com/cqQlaHk

https://imgur.com/ABDeyAp

Looks like the classic "starship completing a hyperspatial jump and re-emerge into real space" scene.

 

[Syrida2887]

 

[siegecrossbow]

 

[mack8]

Looks like the classic "starship completing a hyperspatial jump and re-emerge into real space" scene.

That legit looks like it just dropped out of warp. Mesmerizing.