Well I'm glad that all 3 of us are on the same page. I'm sorry that I misunderstood your post as a sarcastic and condescending reply to lcloo
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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An image update.
Not sure if it's actually real - at least on April 1st you have to be more careful than you have to be anyway! - then it appears as if two arresting gears are already installed!?
What? Currently the US is building 10 type III Arliegh Burke class DDGs;
| John Basilone (DDG 122), under construction |
| Harvey C. Barnum, Jr. (DDG 124), under construction |
| Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), under construction |
| Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG 126), under construction |
| Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127), under construction |
| Ted Stevens (DDG 128), under construction |
| Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), under construction |
| William Charette (DDG 130), under construction |
| George M. Neal (DDG 131), under construction |
| Quentin Walsh (DDG 132), under construction |
| Sam Nunn (DDG 133), under construction |
Honestly I don't know how many will be commissioned this year.
The difference is that not all of those vessels are in advanced stages of construction (and certainly not having five in such a stage at one single shipyard), but rather in various stages of module assembly as well as steel cutting.
It's not an exaggeration to say that Chinese surface combatant (destroyer, frigate) construction capacity in their naval shipyards is something that meaningfully exceeds the US and has been the case for a while.
The measure for this is not "number of destroyers/frigates under any stage of construction/fabrication at any one time" (because that is not something we know for China) but rather "annual launch rate" which is easily discernable and measurable.
That said this is also off topic so better suited for a different thread if you want to continue talking about it in any form.
It's possible that it will start sea trials late this year.
As for when all of its systems will be tested (including EM catapult) for the first time, we don't know but chances are it will proceed in a normal way that various systems will be tested with subsequent sea trials prior to handover and commissioning in a few years time.
Chances are we won't know when various specific milestones are achieved until well after the fact.
This is Deino's guesstimate:
stupid me! Like my professor in mathematics once always said: Calculating with numbers is always the hardest.
Now it should fit to the 76th anniversary
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Long time no see, brother! Nice to see you again.