CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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Or maybe it's just been a month since the last picture. It's not like the rate of picture updates for PLA projects corresponds to actual progress.
It would be uncharacteristic for contemporary Chinese naval construction to be slowed by such bottleneck of poor planning as completed modules sitting dockside waiting for the building docks to be finished.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
It is CGI but still nice
I don't know if it is poor planning. That assumes a lot of things. The Chinese carrier program has had a lot of, let's say, adjustments as it has progressed. I think neither designers or the state originally expected it to evolve at this rate. That being said without without knowing the dependencies and the time required for welding the modules together I don't know if this will have that much of a negative impact on the construction schedule. For all we know the production bottleneck could still be in module construction.
Intrepid
Major
It is a new place out of view of your screenshot in the lower rigth corner.
It is CGI but still nice
No type 075?
Interesting image. Green circle is the 003 (called 002 on this forum) and it shows a very large chunk already assembled. With possibly even larger piece, hidden by the movable roof cover. We're talking about 100+ meters of ship hull being assembled, almost to the main deck level.
Red circle is probably nothing of significance. I am guessing that's the commercial shipbuilding. But it's peculiar to me that the roof covers have appeared there as well, in great numbers. Since there's no reason for commercial shipbuilding to be hidden from view, the only reason one'd go into such expense is to improve the quality of the build. To prevent rain/snow. Or possibly to give better working conditions to the workers, though that too seems like an expense that's not warranted, especially in this day and age where there's an excess of commercial shipbuilding workforce due to low shipping demand.
Yellow circle is interesting too. There seems to be a warship like bow sticking out. Those halls were used to build early few 052Ds, but then they switched to assembling them out in the open. Now they may be going back to building them inside. Would that suggest that there's not enough space to assemble them outside? Perhaps 055s will be built for some time more?