Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
It is hard for me to understand what you argue about.
Your point is that the without the Ukrainians China could have working carriers?
Or about that by digitising and copy an existing design the Navy mastered the design and manufacturing of newly designed carrier ?
I mean, there is no existing, Chinese designed carrier, so it is a bit hard to see how you came to this conclusion.
And additionally , the software is just a repository of knowledge, it requiring to gather the experience first to make it works.
Drawing in 3d doesn't make anyone expert in the design of anything. That requiring lot more than that - mainly experience.
What I am saying is Babich has no role in refurbishing of Varyag China did it by herself based on the incomplete drawing and their own ingenuity in reverse engineering the Varyag and building the subcomponent of the carrier themselve. And the fact that they have varyag to dissect and study.
It is so much easier to design or draw something if you have a model all you have to do is measure it and translate it into drawing
Getting varyag certainly help China carrier program and save at least 2 decades. I don't diminish that but that is half the story because Varyag is incomplete all the subcomponent are desing and built by the Chinese themselves
Having digitzed the drawing make it easier to change the design and save times than blue print or manual drawing. What I am saying that by the times of Shandong China already master the desing and building of carrier and does not need any outside help.
So your contention that it take a long time to build type 03 carrier is incorrect China has all the basic design of the hull and can build,debug,test all the subcomponet except the Em catapult
Having 3 D drawing is even better since you can visualize the design and cut down on error that is difficult to find with 2D drawing Believe me I know what I am talking I was involve in conversion desing from 2 D to 3 D and found all kind of error with only 2 D drawing specially in ship building where space is limited and interference are common that is hard to locate with only 2 D drawing.
Another advantage of 3 D is you can design Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, INstrumentation, in the same drawing making a cooperative design possible and Yo can send the drawing online and to you supplier
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