CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[james smith esq]

Any countries who might be interested in buying used STOBAR carrier?

Pakistan or Iran?

 

[by78]

A high-resolution version of a recently shared image.

 

[voyager1]

By the way, kinda unrelated, but is there a reason we have been getting so many close-up high quality photos recently (past days)?

I remember that for the past 2-3 months we only got such blurry satellite photos that they were hurting our eyes..

It seems like a switch was turned on and suddenly the floodgates opened for all these photos

The way this has been going, I am awaiting for new photos to be posted daily here..

 

[Mt1701d]

By the way, kinda unrelated, but is there a reason we have been getting so many close-up high quality photos recently (past days)?

I remember that for the past 2-3 months we only got such blurry satellite photos that they were hurting our eyes..

It seems like a switch was turned on and suddenly the floodgates opened for all these photos

The way this has been going, I am awaiting for new photos to be posted daily here..

My 2 cents on this... they are now building the deck or top sections which will be seen by everyone soon enough... so no need to be secretive, if they were ever secretive about it... the sensitive bits I.e. the internal structure and layout are covered or mostly covered now... and they are on to things that are going to be shown either way

 

[gelgoog]

Russia, if they can put it past their ego, and Brazil maybe.

Thailand. Their existing carrier is kind of old and they have ordered the Type 071E from China before.

 

[Haot]

By the way, kinda unrelated, but is there a reason we have been getting so many close-up high quality photos recently (past days)?

I remember that for the past 2-3 months we only got such blurry satellite photos that they were hurting our eyes..

It seems like a switch was turned on and suddenly the floodgates opened for all these photos

The way this has been going, I am awaiting for new photos to be posted daily here..

the ship is no longer hiding itself and more Chinese PLAN lovers are so excited because of this so they purchase plane and boat tickets to see the carrier.

 

[james smith esq]

The smokestack is sticking out of your ass.

Stop with your bug-eyed, cultish obsession with 003 being nuclear-powered. When the carrier is revealed to be conventional, which it inevitably will, you need to be put on suicide watch.

P.S. Get yourself evaluated by a competent professional.

No! His ass is nuclear-powered; no smokestack!

 

[Helius]

It's just nonsense now to claim this ship is nuclear powered. Those ones who have basic logic and critical thinking ability should have been conviced by countless evidence. Explaning to people who does not want to think is a waste of time.

The foucs should be on the bridge is ready suprisingly fast. It seems like the bridge is almost completed, which means it will be fitted sometime very soon, possibly in August. Otherwise, there is no point finishing the bridge first and just let it sit for months.

And once the bridge is settled on the deck, it's not far from the launching the ship, could be within 2021. That is a siginificant speed.

While the PLAN's building speed is by no means to be sniffed at, when you start comparing it with the Ford class where each of those units thus far has taken less than 5 years from laying down to launching, and those are a new class of nuclear boats to boot, it speaks to the well-established industrial base and expertise that China still needs to pick up the slack on, if she hopes to match and even surpass that kind of level someday.

Thailand. Their existing carrier is kind of old and they have ordered the Type 071E from China before.

That briefly crossed my mind, then I reminded myself Thailand has literally no carrier-borne air wing anymore (apart form helos) ever since they got rid of the last of their Harriers.

So unless China sells them the CV with J-15s as a packaged deal, which is very doubtful; or the Thais buy some Flankers from Russia, again doubtful considering the majority of their business has been with the US and NATO MIC, it will just end up as yet another floating yacht much like the current one.

 

[longmarch]

While the PLAN's building speed is by no means to be sniffed at, when you start comparing it with the Ford class where each of those units thus far has taken less than 5 years from laying down to launching, and those are a new class of nuclear boats to boot, it speaks to the well-established industrial base and expertise that China still needs to pick up the slack on, if she hopes to match and even surpass that kind of level someday.

How many years has Ford entered service? Still fixing their elevators...

 

[Richard Santos]

I suspect think the chinese will not build a nuclear carrier without first building some other nuclear surface ship and gather some experience operating her.