I think decision of when the ship will be commissioned once the ship is physically largely complete is a political one. The ship could be commissioned as soon as she ran her sea trial and proved herself seaworthy, which can occur within 1-2 month of the ship being ready to sail for the first time, Or the PLAN may not formally accept her as an operational warship until it is fully satisfied that not only is the ship fully functional, but the doctrine associated with operating is proven as well. I think the commissioning date will be much closer to the ship being shown to be seaworthy than the ship being ready to fight.
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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I expect the commissioning date will likely be halfway between when the ship is shown to be seaworthy and between the ship being operationally capable, based on recent past practice of recent warship types, including CV-17.
If you're arguing that you think they will make a deliberate decision to commission 003 earlier for some reason, that is fine, but you should acknowledge that would be somewhat of a deviation from their recent past practice where the key subsystems and functionality of major new warship types -- including CV-17 specifically -- are verified prior to commissioning. And it is only after commissioning that the training, tactics, and warfighting capability is pursued.
I think CV-17, being the first ground up domestically built carrier, had to prove China was up to all aspect of very large warship construction, which China has never previously done. 003 benefited much from the confidence gained with the 002, and only need to prove Chinese EM catapults worked, and any incremental improvement over 002 in other areas functioned effectively. Beside the catapults, the main new technical uncertainty with the 003 has to do with new aircraft and new doctrine, not the carrier herself.
Not at all, the pace of PLAN isn’t faster than the US during Cold War and Cold War II is around the corner,ACs&SSN/SSBNs are short in both numbers and qualities ,I seriously don’t know what’s astonishing about it.
There’s a Chinese proverb says“文无第一，武无第二”，there’s no No.2 on the battlefield,and that No.2 is us right now,every time I see a westerner posts such words I feel sick,it’s like PLAN is competing with Indian navy for some worthless bullshit,a navy which couldn’t compete with USN on the Pacific Ocean isn’t impressive,not at all,and No.2 navy is the most expensive and worthless piece of sh!t one can imagine
The flag during 7.1 surely made it more convincing
I assume the windows at the back are covered by grey panels or the island has a few more modules to mount on. Come to think of it, maybe it’s those 2 modules one member pointed out yesterday on the first picture of the island
你们这眼睛真尖啊
So you think why there is no rear bridge hhh