CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[li450274625]

And so it begins:

As it seems this is the first confirmed image of one of the Type 003 aircraft carrier's mega-modules in dry dock no. 4 at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai.

(image via @微博铁幕君SSS at weibo）

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Is this the second 003?

 

[Intrepid]

Is this the second 003?

No, it is the 1st 003.

 

[Deino]

Is this the second 003?

Why do you think so?

 

[Austin Powers]

The US isnt downsizing. Infact the number of required aircraft carriers is 12 as mandated by the govt. and repeatedly urged by both the House/senate and the president.
Thats why early decommissioning of USS Harry S.Truman was cancelled.

Not only that but the 10 LHA also can now perform the role of light carriers, since they can carry F35B and sustain sortie rates at least 30% of that of the principal a/c carriers. Add to that Japan's Izumo class ships and there's going to be quite a lot of competition in the next decade.

LHA are less expensive than heavy carriers. China is expected to have at least 10 LHA with Type 075 replacing Type 071. Japan's carriers can be countered by Russia's 2 LHA Vladivostok and Sevastopol.

 

[Deino]

Some minor news from the construction site ... some work is going on under these new movable shelters;

 

[Intrepid]

There will be work going on for the next 20 or 30 years.

 

[Bhurki]

LHA are less expensive than heavy carriers. China is expected to have at least 10 LHA with Type 075 replacing Type 071. Japan's carriers can be countered by Russia's 2 LHA Vladivostok and Sevastopol.

First of all 075 and 071 are completely different categories and neither is going to replace the other, since they are meqnt to work in conjunction.

Even though LHA can perform the role of a light carrier, its in no way capable of replacing a nuclear supercarrier even on a 3:1 ratio (if going by costs), because it doesnt have the speed and survivability characteristics required to execute key operations demanded by the CVW ( not able to deploy AEW aircraft being on of them).

At best LHA with an airwing of about 24 F35B will be able to augment an existing CSG by opening another attack axis with a about 60 sorties a day rather than by adding brute force ( which a supercarrier isnt exactly shory of, 200+ sorties a day)

 

[Deino]

And yet another image from the Type 003 aircraft carrier at the drydock no. 4 at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai but are these modules too slightly right besides these movable shelters?

(Image via @利刃斩海飞剪艏 from Weibo)

 

[Deino]

And yet another image from the Type 003 aircraft carrier at the drydock no. 4 at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai but are these modules too slightly right besides these movable shelters?

(Image via @利刃斩海飞剪艏 from Weibo)

After a second look they are indeed there since some time and also they look more like movable halls/shelters, albeit smaller than the ones, which hide the carrier.

 

[banjex]

LHA are less expensive than heavy carriers. China is expected to have at least 10 LHA with Type 075 replacing Type 071. Japan's carriers can be countered by Russia's 2 LHA Vladivostok and Sevastopol.

Russia's building LHDs, not LHAs.