asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Nice work!
Let’s hope updates become more frequent!
Let’s hope updates become more frequent!
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Can someone repost that list from 2012 which predicted pretty much what we see today ?
Maybe some of the older members know what I am talking about the one with the timeline next to the units
Timeline was out but message was right
Maybe some of the older members know what I am talking about the one with the timeline next to the units
Timeline was out but message was right
I am finally able to do some measurements, though so far the images are so low res that these are mostly worthless measuremenes, surely lacking in precision. So this is mostly for fun.
First, using the panorama image of the shipyard with visible cranes and GE for measurement of nearby buildings present in both satellite images and the panorama image, i calculated the width of the crane to be 155 m. The width of the right side leg of the crane at its base (the eastern leg of the crane) is roughly 36.5 meters. Keep in mind that just because I go below a whole meter to describe the length, the precision of this could still be not just meters but possibly +/- 10 meters, due to various reasons.
The length of the module section is some 17.5 meters, and the width at its highest part is some 37.5 meters. Width of the cavity within the module is therefore 24 meters. Again, this could all be very much wrong... as the next paragraph will show.
Then, independently, using the latest image and what seems to be a person present, and assuming 1.75 m as height of the person, I got a whole different set of figures. i got the height of the cavity in the module to be 6.35 m, i got the width at the highest part to be 49 meters and i got width of the cavity to be ~33 meters. (it's hard to tell if side wall structures around cavity are both equally wide. it would appear they are not)
Hopefully there will be a satellite image available to us soon, at least with the crane present, if not the module itself.
For comparison, width the Kuznetsov carrier at the hangar deck height level seems to be roughly 42 meters.
First, using the panorama image of the shipyard with visible cranes and GE for measurement of nearby buildings present in both satellite images and the panorama image, i calculated the width of the crane to be 155 m. The width of the right side leg of the crane at its base (the eastern leg of the crane) is roughly 36.5 meters. Keep in mind that just because I go below a whole meter to describe the length, the precision of this could still be not just meters but possibly +/- 10 meters, due to various reasons.
The length of the module section is some 17.5 meters, and the width at its highest part is some 37.5 meters. Width of the cavity within the module is therefore 24 meters. Again, this could all be very much wrong... as the next paragraph will show.
Then, independently, using the latest image and what seems to be a person present, and assuming 1.75 m as height of the person, I got a whole different set of figures. i got the height of the cavity in the module to be 6.35 m, i got the width at the highest part to be 49 meters and i got width of the cavity to be ~33 meters. (it's hard to tell if side wall structures around cavity are both equally wide. it would appear they are not)
Hopefully there will be a satellite image available to us soon, at least with the crane present, if not the module itself.
For comparison, width the Kuznetsov carrier at the hangar deck height level seems to be roughly 42 meters.
Another set of measurements after two newest images appeared. Length of the module is 16.5 meters, while its width at its highest is around 43 meters. Width of the cavity is no less than 28 meters, but it could be a bit more, it'd hard to tell due to view obstruction, the crane leg is in the way.
Height is harder to determine as view is blocked, but roughly 40% of the module's height is not visible due to the outer wall of the compound. (as compared to measurement of the large gantry crane and its also hidden base) Whole module might be a few meters off the ground, though. (if i had to guess, overall height of the module so far might be some 21+ meters)
Incidentally, why have those new images been posted in other topics, and not here, where they seem most relevant?
Height is harder to determine as view is blocked, but roughly 40% of the module's height is not visible due to the outer wall of the compound. (as compared to measurement of the large gantry crane and its also hidden base) Whole module might be a few meters off the ground, though. (if i had to guess, overall height of the module so far might be some 21+ meters)
Incidentally, why have those new images been posted in other topics, and not here, where they seem most relevant?
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this is the old picture that where the module was not built yet.
maybe you are right , In the middle of the two cranes, the one on the left is the module.
So you mean it is a dated image?
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