CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[zgx09t]

If there is a rear bridge, the angle of its windows would be strange. The wall is canted in the wrong manner, see the orange lines, compared with the right manner (blue line) of the front bridge.

I know some ships do the same, but in those cases as I know the ship (actually boat) is very small so the window follows the angle of the deck house. I don't see that kind of constraint in a CV to do the same, nor is there a reason to do differently than the front bridge.

Any guess?
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Forward bridge widows are angled to get a few more degrees of look down view, better suited for scanning things down there on the deck. Reversed that angle to rare widows for better look up view, as they would be scanning things up in the sky approaching the general vicinity of the ship.

 

[Intrepid]

I deleted my reply after rethinking, how it slant in the rear isn't a big deal since the rear bridge is for aircraft landing and clear view of aircraft many hundreds meters away isn't as important as watching the deck.

There is already a place with windows at the front of the island like on American aircraft carriers or the old British Ark Royal, from where landing planes can be perfectly observed.

 

[aslyo]

 

[KampfAlwin]

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You can definitely see the scale of this carrier by looking at the workers on the right

 

[vinnan]

Don't they usually use the Chinese flag on launch occasions like with the Type 055?
This is the CCP flag. I don't expect them to use it further.

Indeed.

 

[Richard Santos]

I don’t believe the protrusion on the rear of the island beneath the AESA panels is destined to have window cut in it or that is will house some manned flight control station. If you measure its height and compare it to known deck height in the bridge as illustrated by the windowed galleries on the side, you find it is less than 1 full deck in height. There seems to be no reason to make deck height lower than normal, especially when there seems to be plenty of space above or below it, if the space would be manned.

 

[vinnan]

I don’t believe the protrusion on the rear of the island beneath the AESA panels is destined to have window cut in it or that is will house some manned flight control station. If you measure its height and compare it to known deck height in the bridge as illustrated by the windowed galleries on the side, you find it is less than 1 full deck in height. There seems to be no reason to make deck height lower than normal, especially when there seems to be plenty of space above or below it, if the space would be manned.

Perhaps they use hi-res cameras and microphones in lieu of windows.

 

[Richard Santos]

It’s not the windows. It is the fact that doesn’t seem intended to be a routinely manned space.

 

[11226p]

Another dimension estimate of 003 on Horobeyos twitter

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1410595325505531911

 

[SINCHIKI]

Comparison of similar shot angle (Kitty Hawk and 003)