CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[asif iqbal]

it's hard to give correct name , call them 003 and 004 the people easier to understand .

Yes but is it 003 at JNCX or DL?

 

[Deino]

at JNCX

 

[Orthan]

FZGFZY is corroborating rumors that both JN and DL are constructing this class of aircraft carrier:

My translation is poor, but here are a few summary points:
1. He has been talking about a dual JN-DL assembly line for many years now
2. There is a time gap between JN and DL, but this may be mitigated by the fact that the carrier underwent steam/EMALS competition
3. The question now is whether the 3rd carrier and 4th carrier are "on the same level" (i.e. in the same class)
4. It is unlikely that the 4th carrier is nuclear-powered

What is "dual"? is it meaning that JN builds 3rd carrier and DL builds 4th ? The US only has one aircraft carrier shipyard. Will china build that many carriers, that it needs to have 2 carriers built at the same time? Or it will be at turns, in which one get built by one shipyard, and the next by the other shipyard?

 

[Intrepid]

Will china build that many carriers, that it needs to have 2 carriers built at the same time?

China wants to have a more powerfull navy than the USA, so they have to build two carriers in parallel.

 

[asif iqbal]

My prediction all along is as follows

2 x STOBAR
2 x CV EMALS
2 x CVN

6 carriers 216 fixed wing aircraft

 

[longmarch]

Remember it's not original plan to build them simultaneously. It became like this because of the PK so one got delayed.
In orther words, you would have seen one much earlier not for the PK.

 

[Sczepan]

now noticed the tweet

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The module appearing at JNCX shipyard several days ago basically can be confirmed to be the submodule of 003 CV's engine compartment.
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only to compare the structur, number of decks etc. …. there are a lot of differences, something could be similar

 

[Sczepan]

it's hard to give correct name , call them 003 and 004 the people easier to understand .

why don't call them Type 002, same as the thread is called?

 

[jobjed]

why don't call them Type 002, same as the thread is called?

Because the thread's wrong.

 

[Deino]

why don't call them Type 002, same as the thread is called?

Since Type 002 is SIMPLY WRONG. This carrier is the Type 003.

And we - at least most of us - accept this SINCE MONTHS