CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[by78]

Are those two destroyers in the foreground of the 2nd photo newly launched 052D units of the 4th batch, or 052Cs that are undergoing refit?

I don't know.

 

[LCR34]

Can someone tell me the reasoning behind using a boiler/turbine setup instead of doing gas turbines or diesels? Would it be more cumbersome to use a ton of gas turbines or something like that?

Boiler as scavenger? You can reuse portion of the heat ejected into the exhaust.

 

[Temstar]

Can someone tell me the reasoning behind using a boiler/turbine setup instead of doing gas turbines or diesels? Would it be more cumbersome to use a ton of gas turbines or something like that?

When it's time to build CVN you need a mature steam turbine industry around to build it and support it. Nuclear reactor only works with steam turbine.

Between now and when you get around to build CVN this steam turbine industry have to have some work to do or else they will go out of business. Therefore every now and then PLAN will build a steam turbine ship to keep them busy, eg 051B, 051C, Shandong.

In Fujian's case besides this consideration there's also the fact that it was originally designed to use steam catapult, which would necessitate steam turbine.

If you never plan to have CVN or CV with steam catapult in the future then steam turbine has no advantage over gas turbine and it's fine to completely abandon this tech. See Royal Navy.

 

[by78]

According to a reliable

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, this is a bidding document for a ventilation monitoring system for Fujian's engine and generator rooms.

 

[snake65]

When it's time to build CVN you need a mature steam turbine industry around to build it and support it. Nuclear reactor only works with steam turbine.

Between now and when you get around to build CVN this steam turbine industry have to have some work to do or else they will go out of business. Therefore every now and then PLAN will build a steam turbine ship to keep them busy, eg 051B, 051C, Shandong.

In Fujian's case besides this consideration there's also the fact that it was originally designed to use steam catapult, which would necessitate steam turbine.

If you never plan to have CVN or CV with steam catapult in the future then steam turbine has no advantage over gas turbine and it's fine to completely abandon this tech. See Royal Navy.

Even if you don't plan to build a CVN, you may still want to build a nuclear submarine. Or a nuclear icebreaker. So, the capability and expertise will be there.

 

[bd popeye]

China's New Aircraft Carrier is a Game Changer​

 

[ansy1968]

China's New Aircraft Carrier is a Game Changer​

Welcome back sir, it's good to see you well, in good health and a Happy Chinese new year. watching the video, I want to give my 2 cents worth as a Chinese and Asian. China had no global ambition, all of these shiny toys are use to push back American and its vassal aggression. Sir like the Japanese before when ADM Perry use his fleet as a show of force to open up Japan, we Chinese suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Western Allies culminating to a Hundred Years of Humiliation, we are seeing a repeat of history with Collective West or the US in particular doing GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY or FON close to Chinese territory. Not realizing the traumatic experience we Chinese had gone thru, so in conclusion it's a pushback not an aggressive move like this author want us to believed.

 

[by78]

A flyover photo.

 

[by78]

A flyover photo.

The steam delivery system that pipes steam from onshore boilers into the carrier appears to be missing in the image. This could be a sign that verification of the ship's turbines has been completed. If so, boiler tests may begin soon.

 

[by78]

Another flyby update. The steam delivery systems is still there, contrary to what I had believed in the post above.