CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[Deino]

There are drydocks with over 500 m length and a new 1600-tons-gantry-crane in Shanghai.

Thanks ... so Wiki is simply old and dated or plain wrong ?

 

[Intrepid]

Thanks ... so Wiki is simply old and dated or plain wrong ?

... or the designation JNCX is not precise enough.

 

[Sczepan]

... or the designation JNCX is not precise enough.

... or the ship will become smaller

 

[Deino]

... or the ship will become smaller

But how do You build a 300m+ carrier in a smaller dock ?

 

[bd popeye]

Henry K on East Pendulumn has a decent article about China's potential 002 conventional CATOBAR carrier.

Here is the URL in Google Translate to English:

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If he is right, we should see some evidence of 002 in the next couple of years. He believes China will build two of the conventional CATOBAR 002 carriers.

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Very similar deck configuration to the FS R91 Charles de Gaulle....check the placement of the catapults. Excellent design on the PLAN CV..

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[Intrepid]

This is the place I guess the next Chinese aircraft carrier will be build:

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The drydock in the north west has a length of about 580 meters and a width of about 100 meters. That is larger than the drydock in Dalian.

 

[sequ]

This is the place I guess the next Chinese aircraft carrier will be build:

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The drydock in the north west has a length of about 580 meters and a width of about 100 meters. That is larger than the drydock in Dalian.

That is were the type 055 are being built and that is not a drydock suited for large vessels. They lack an overhanging crane and such. That patch of water is were ships are being sled in after they've been assembled from modules.

You mean this one?

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[Intrepid]

That is were the type 055 are being built and that is not a drydock suited for large vessels. They lack an overhanging crane and such. That patch of water is were ships are being sled in after they've been assembled from modules.

On the satellite image I see a merchant ship in that drydock with a length of 327 meters and a beam of 40 meters. And I see two big gantry cranes over the drydock with a beam of more than 200 meters. I think, that is not the wrong equipment to build aircraft carriers.

 

[sequ]

There seems to be a miscommunication.Your link guided me to the place were the 055 are being assembled, which is just a few hundred meters from the place you described in your comment

 

[Intrepid]

There seems to be a miscommunication.Your link guided me to the place were the 055 are being assembled, which is just a few hundred meters from the place you described in your comment

I mean one of the drydocks of the whole area, that is suitable. The largest one is this one:



But I don't know, what is actual in that drydock?