CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[SINCHIKI]

The orientation of the 2 bow catapults are dictated by the need for aircraft waiting lunch on the port side catapult to not block the path of an aircraft taking off on the waist catapult.

The US carriers have two waist catapults. The inboards waist catapults is slanted closer to the centerline. The necessitated moving the rear of the port side bow catapult further inboard to clear it. So the two bow cats don’t point straight ahead. Both point slightly to port.

The Chinese carrier has only 1 waist catapult. That is parallel to center line and further outboard. So the rear of port side bow catapult on 003 didn;t need to be shifted over as much to star board to clear it. So it don;t look like it is paralleled tot he starboard side bow cat.

Thx, this problem has bothered me for a long time~

 

[banjex]

JL 3s don't even have any meaning. Don't even make any sense!

R/whoosh

 

[foxmulder]

I just realize the US CVN has its catapults pointing to parallel direction, but 003 seems having the 2 catapults in main deck pointing in injunction directions? Am i wrong? Why?

They (US ones) are not parallel.

 

[LawLeadsToPeace]

JL 3s don't even have any meaning. Don't even make any sense!

Just a quick heads up, r/woosh means that the joke went over your head. /s means sarcasm. Also, I know this is the 003 carrier thread, but technically speaking the JL3 does exist but in the form of rumors.

 

[Intrepid]

They (US ones) are not parallel.

The development of the orientation of the bow catapults on US aircraft carriers (from bottom to top CV 34, 60, 61, 64, 65, 67, 68 and 71):



On the Essex-class aircraft carriers, they were pointed to starboard, now they point to port.

 

[snake65]

Do you have a source for that?. I'd like to read more on it.

Not much. Russian source describing development of steam cats. Will try to dig out a link

 

[Intrepid]

Not much. Russian source describing development of steam cats. Will try to dig out a link

The discussion can also be found somewhere in this forum. Kuznetsov was not prepared for a catapult, but the sister ship Varyag (now Liaoning) was.

 

[Kejora]

The discussion can also be found somewhere in this forum. Kuznetsov was not prepared for a catapult, but the sister ship Varyag (now Liaoning) was.

I don't understand Russia's obsession with ski jump, even their newest proposed carrier has both catapult and ski jump

 

[antiterror13]

I don't understand Russia's obsession with ski jump, even their newest proposed carrier has both catapult and ski jump
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Just not 100% confident of catapult ...just in case it wouldn't work

HMS Queen Elizabeth also doesn't have a catapult

 

[james smith esq]

I don't understand Russia's obsession with ski jump, even their newest proposed carrier has both catapult and ski jump
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I like the idea of the combined launch. An EMALS-Ski Jump should allow for a shorter launch/quicker turnover.
If China is successful with EMALS, I don’t see why they wouldn’t license the tech to Russia.