AFAIK, no indication of any construction have started. I believe the PLA-Navy would hold off any further construction until they have spent some time evaluating their third carrier.
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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AFAIK, no indication of any construction have started. I believe the PLA-Navy would hold off any further construction until they have spent some time evaluating their third carrier.
Unless the CV-19 is nuclear-powered (as alleged by pop3 last year):
Then I don't really expect there to have significantly greater amount and scale of changes on what is supposed to be a (near-)sister ship of CV-18 Fujian - Other than the various reasonably anticipated improvements compared to CV-19's predecessor, including:
1. Better arranged fore-port side EMALS catapult such that its jet blast deflector avoids the angled landing strip;
2. The forward deck elevator moved slightly rearward to stay clear and behind the jet blast deflector of the fore-starboard EMALS catapult;
3. An even smaller island footprint on the flight deck; and
4. (Hopefully) one additional deck elevator on the port side.
And we just keep waiting...
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Not sure if anyone has commented on it, the angle deck EMAL shed has now been removed about a week ago. Refer Chinese military forum, File too big to insert photos.
You are again late to the party!
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
So beautiful and slick, the island is very small, significantly smaller than 002 Can't wait to see the specs and sailing in the ocean Any confirmation yet whether it will be IEP ? I believe it is, will be awesome and excellent achievement for China. The only carrier with IEP is Queen...
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Deino, thanks for pointing out. I was asleep!!!You are again late to the party!
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
So beautiful and slick, the island is very small, significantly smaller than 002 Can't wait to see the specs and sailing in the ocean Any confirmation yet whether it will be IEP ? I believe it is, will be awesome and excellent achievement for China. The only carrier with IEP is Queen...www.sinodefenceforum.com
I wasn't quite happy with some solutions on Fujian from the start, but IMHO, China should start working on second ship as soon as Fujian left the dock. China needs as many carriers as soon as possible, even with some flaws. So, if they need 2 years in dock and 2 years outside, that should be the tempo, at least for 2 or 3 CATOBARs, and during that time they should develop final version of nuclear carrier.
I also think that just one CATOBAR carrier is insufficient. And if China wants to increase the rate of pilot training and development of doctrines they should have built at least two of the Fujian type if not more. Nuclear supercarriers are supremely expensive, not just in acquisition costs but also maintenance. USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) was a conventional supercarrier that the US operated for like 39 years. Which is perfectly respectable.