When you said length of at least 320 m+, is this the deck length or waterline length?
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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Deck length
Are those modules behind the island the openings for the hangars?
Come on ... isn't this a bit overambitious to estimate total deck-length of a carrier from a blurry image of a model that already now shows too many changes/differences to the real one under construction??
I know, patience is sometimes hard, but just wait a few weeks and we'll know for sure.
Sorry my mistake.
By the way, besides all that more than understandable focus on the dry dock and the Type 003's construction, but do we have any recent information, what's currently going on at the construction site, where the modules have been prepared all the years before?
After a quick search this - 22. December 2020 - was the most recent image in my collection.
After a quick search this - 22. December 2020 - was the most recent image in my collection.
Do you think they already building modules for the fourth carrier?
I don't want to start any speculations, but since alone within the last pages a 004 carrier or second 003 was mentioned several times, it would be IMO at least an idea to check what's going on there.
We have pictures confirming that there is a bulbous bow.
I'm not convinced that the model is real or if it is fully accurate in terms of specific details (e.g.: the specific lengths and proportions of the various details), but a bulbous bow is certainly consistent with what we know about the ship.
Whether the model just depicts proportions inaccurately or if it is different angles showing different proportions (if the model is legit), or if the model is simply not legit, is hard to say.
I think these are models from a Shanghai metro station being transferred somewhere else.