PLAN 2nd & 3rd Aircraft Carrier wager & planning

poor 02.. with this news it seems like her thunder may be taken away cause now everyone is more interested in the 3rd full deck carrier than her LOL

Jeff Head said:

Henry K on East Pendulumn has a decent article about China's potential 002 conventional CATOBAR carrier.

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If he is right, we should see some evidence of 002 in the next couple of years. He believes China will build two of the conventional CATOBAR 002 carriers.

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Very similar deck configuration to the FS R91 Charles de Gaulle....check the placement of the catapults. Excellent design on the PLAN CV..

Looks different to me Gerry.. More align with US carriers IMHO. CdG island is much more forward and both elevators are behind it. Also she doesn't have aft port sponson for weapons stations.

bd popeye said:

Very similar deck configuration to the FS R91 Charles de Gaulle....check the placement of the catapults. Excellent design on the PLAN CV..

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Yes, it is clear that if they use this sketch for the basic design as shown :



Then they are looking at one bow cat nd one waist cat for a total of two cats. They will be able to simultaneouse landing and take off on the angled deck.

I expect that that carrier is going to be somewhat longer and wider than the CDG. it will have a larger hangar and will be able to accomodate 30+ of the large (much larger than the Rafale) J-20s.

But it will be an effective carrier like the CDG is. Not as high a tempo or as many sorties as a Nimitz or Ford class certaianly, but still they will be trying to improve on a proven, good dsgn that the Frnch have used (in terms of eck layout) since the Clemenceau class of the late 1950s.

So, I expect it will be a very decent carrier.