CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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Is it just me or does the forward lift interfere with the operation of the forward right hand side catapult? It looks like the lift could not be used if intensive cat work is being done from the right hand cat?Some grainy images. Date unknown.
Cyclical aircraft carrier deck operations do not involve simultaneous launch operations with use of elevators.
And not even during Alpha Strikes as well, right? I remember reading somewhere (possibly some article in the Proceedings) that during both launching & recovering you need as much flight deck as possible in case things go wrong and since elevators are a part of flight deck when raised, they are only lowered/used in the 60-90 minutes duration between launching & recovering.
An explanation offered is that the design for catapult was changed from steam to EMAL later in the design phase, resulting in a catapult tract that was about 10 meters longer. Wouldn't have interfered with the original setup but they must have felt that the trade-off was worth it.
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nice to see a escort DDG in there thought I would have to wait years !
Alleged new information on Fujian(??)
No idea how he calculated that 2025 handover timeframe.
No idea how he calculated that 2025 handover timeframe.
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Have no fear, I'm pretty sure China would have done its homework, under any foreseeable senerios of operations.
When 004 eventually hits the water it will be interesting to see how many of the 'faults' and 'deficiencies' in the 003 design picked up by SDF members are actually resolved
