CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[ACuriousPLAFan]

Edit: old photo

R U serious?

 

[Barefoot]

dry dock flooding
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That's just to cool down the nuclear reactor they just fitted!

So i read somewhere.

 

[KevinG]

Is this where 003 is going to be outfitted? Or it is just a coincidence that they moved the commercial ship away a few days ago.

 

[Intrepid]

Is this where 003 is going to be outfitted?

we don't know, but we expect it

 

[asif iqbal]

big big news !

 

[BRIANLEUNG]

Latest Type 003 satellite image from:

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True or PS-ed?

 

[Michaelsinodef]

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Isn't that flags on the ships?

Like what the 002 had before it got out for refit?

 

[pakje]

Just for curiosity, do you think the type 003 is losing anything from going to 4 steam to 3 emals launchers?

 

[Michaelsinodef]

Just for curiosity, do you think the type 003 is losing anything from going to 4 steam to 3 emals launchers?

From what rumours we got, it seems like their ground tests of their emals vs their steam catapults, had the emals soundly beating the steam one, so much so that they apparantly stopped work on the 003 for 1 year, to redesign it to use emals.

And I think it also included reliability.

 

[alfreddango]

the gas turbines will be manufactured in china, right? it wouldn't make sense for such a project to rely on foreign equipment