CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[Intrepid]

The recording quality is certainly not suitable for recognizing details of a machine system.

 

[Tam]

You have 1 big carrier, it can only be at one place at a time. If it ever goes into maintenance then you have nothing. If you have 2 smaller carriers they can be at different areas, and you can rotate them on duty.

If there is no such thing as a carrier that is too big why isn't the US building 250000 ton carriers and sticking to ~100000 tons with Ford-class


That's surprising, I didn't know that.

US lacks infrastructure to build something bigger, drydock, and also ports and wharfs to put these ships in. There is a reason why the biggest commercial ships are not used with US routes.

 

[Tam]

Sorry, that is just example, the question is : what is in the 003 belly? COGAD similar like this ?
Horizontal lines are the diesel/gas turbined, vertical is the gearbox ? View attachment 65827

To the right could be gas turbine, to the left are two diesel engines.

Maybe kind of like this but turned other way around.

 

[Anlsvrthng]

The recording quality is certainly not suitable for recognizing details of a machine system.

But it looks like COGAD or similar, not like independent turbines for steam propulsion.

 

[Tam]

Too much remains hidden. Only the gearbox. Or at least it also looks like a gearbox to me.

Arrangement can also apply to CODLAG. So now the plot thickens.

 

[gelgoog]

I doubt it will have marine diesel engines. It would make more sense to have multiple turbines and feed those into the electric system for storage. It may have multiple sized turbines. But it is not impossible. The QE-class has 2x turbines and 4x diesel engines.

 

[Gloire_bb]

Except there clearly is, the bigger your carrier is the slower and less flexible it becomes.

In case of carriers, it's basically the other way around.
The limiting factor is obviously price and available facilities, but when you're trying to have a floaty airfield on high seas - size is the epitome of good.

 

[Anlsvrthng]

Too much remains hidden. Only the gearbox. Or at least it also looks like a gearbox to me.

Arrangement can also apply to CODLAG. So now the plot thickens.

Combined electric/turbine or diesel used on submarine hunters, that needs to be silent.

The advantage is the direct connection bypassing the gearbox between the shaft and the motor.

 

[taxiya]

Why the talk about gas turbine? Did I miss something? I find no mentioning of it in Chinese forums such as cjdby.

 

[Anlsvrthng]

There is a google earth pro update for the shipyard.

Possible to measure the length of the ship. All pieces together gives 290-300 m , beam 40 m ish .

Interesting is the lack of additional elements about the ship.

It is 40 m wide, so I expected same 20/40 m wide elements laying around, but nothing.