CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

Blitzo

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manatee988 said:
Surely if it's today they would have a press release or something saying it was happening? Like turn on your TVs at 2pm today and watch this thing.
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Just wait.

It doesn't really matter if it exactly happens today or not.

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Everyone's obsession with trying to track down the exact day or time in which it will be launched as we get closer to the expected general launch period, has been really a needless exercise.
 
Temstar

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manatee988 said:
Surely if it's today they would have a press release or something saying it was happening? Like turn on your TVs at 2pm today and watch this thing.
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Shilao already said on last night's live stream that Guancha's military team will have someone on the ground to report and the team in the studio is going to be all hands on deck. I'm pretty sure it's happening today.

The live stream was also discussing the history of carrier fighters, with the segment at the end about PLANAF. Once today's bonus livestream is up I'll post the link.
 
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kwaigonegin

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From a design standpoint, apart from the modified larger windows for the flight control deck, and a nice bit of symmetry with the parallel-running port catapults, what I'm most pleased by thus far is that the PLAN has pretty much filled every available square inch of the surface area with deck space, most notably the stern section of the deck, ostensibly so as to afford more parking space.

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This is in contrast to the Ford, which has dedicated pretty big swathes of surface real estate to those large sponsons at the stern, which I always think is a peculiar design choice to have so much empty space for a lone Mk.25 and RAM on either side, as justified by some ill-defined "future-proofing" rationale for future systems and fixtures that might occupy those spaces, all at the expense of less deck space as if that's not already at a premium which they've now fixed themselves up to have to do without.

Still, aesthetically this makes the 003 look like she has a bigger "butt" in comparison, which I like and I cannot lie.
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Those large sponsons ar the stern of the Ford class are not just to stick the defensive weapons on top. They contain rooms and aircraft workshop facilities. As big as carriers are, space is still always at a premium.
 
Schwerter_

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Temstar said:
Shilao already said on last night's live stream that Guancha's military team will have someone on the ground to report and the team in the studio is going to be all hands on deck. I'm pretty sure it's happening today.

The live stream was also discussing the history of carrier fighters, with the segment at the end about PLANAF.
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I thought that was said in a half-jokingly manner? Still if they do plan to have someone there it should lend at least some credibility to the clame that it is indeed happening today.
 
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