@Deino Sealed? launched date late this month together with unveiling of J21(carrier aircraft)?
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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Not yet sealed, you can see 2 shadows being cast on the middle of the deck, excluding the one casted by the island.
no, if you can carry a spare engine then you can test it. whether the ship has a test stand determines the extent to which the engines embarked can be serviced and overhauled onboard.
Two things should be considered in weighing whether it is worthwhile for a carrier to be given extensive onboard facilities for overhauling it’s embarked aircraft engines:
1. what is reliability and meantime between major service of the aircraft engines embarked?
2. how long is the length of deployment for which the ship is optimized and how many sorties or flight hours is expected during its deployment.
2 is hard to know for the chinese carrier, but it would not be unreasonable to suppose she is optimized for shorter deployments than US carriers
1 since 1950s, jet engine reliability and mean time between overhaul increased by 2 orders of magnitude. down to the Nimitz class American carriers had their design origins in the late 1950s. so the presence of jet test stands on american carriers may well be an artifact of its design origin in an era when engines can be expected to require overhaul every few score of flight hours, rather than every few thousand flight hours in the modern era.
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Do the ship carry small nuclear reactor to power the em rail and her radar ?
Looks like they have closed the engine room deck and now are on hangar deck level, we might see it completely sealed in a few weeks or less.
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Yes I don't deny it. I meant they will reach the main deck level in a few week.
I could not find any new destroyers. Are there any new destroyer productions?
lcloo
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No. May be they are waiting for the new type 052E(?) contract to materialize next year.