That would be super carriers.. Kitty Hawk, Constellation & Enterprise.
I wonder when CV-16 will return to the sea and will we witness more than three aircraft aboard? Just waiting like I have for nine years.
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That would be super carriers.. Kitty Hawk, Constellation & Enterprise.
I wonder when CV-16 will return to the sea and will we witness more than three aircraft aboard? Just waiting like I have for nine years.
asif iqbal
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Personally I think this year we will see it good development on the carrier
We first seen skid marks, then came the imagine of touch and goes and then the landings and launches
Then we seen night opps and weapons trials and also helos on the carrier
The iceing on the cake was the formation sailing in the carrier strike group
All this shows one thing, progress progress progress so now we can expect more aircraft on board and serious build up of the carrier air wing
Just like all things it takes time and for me the carrier strike group formation sailing of 8-10 ships was a amazing moment!
Good reminders of this past years operations of CV-16. .. however in my opinion that group photos of an CSG was hollow at best. Why? No real air wing on CV-16. What is an carrier without aircraft?..not much my friend..not much.
by78
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Does anyone know the production rate of J-15? If we have this info, we can make a reasonable projection on when an air wing will be stationed on CV-16.
Purely technically, China have 7 ship yards with a 300m+ long yards:
Dalian (CSIC), Qingdao (CSIC), Huludao (CSIC), Shanghai (CSSC), and Guangzhou (CSSC)
so they can technically build more than 2 carriers at the same time.
Some of those yards have several slip ways longer than 300 meters, so by that logic they can simultaneously build 4 or 5 carriers in just one yard.
But it takes more than slip way 300 meters long to build an aircraft carrier. There needs to be a whole highly specialized industry with enough capacity to able to turn out power plants, fittings, and equipment at a rate sufficient to support normal rate of construction progress. The yard must have enough skilled shipyard workers to undertake the hull construction of large warships, which is much more challenging than building a 300 meter container ship or cruise liner.
Finally, if they build seven carriers at once, they will need an military aircraft industry able to turn out enough planes, plus attrition reserve, training back up, etc at a rate sufficient to equip these carriers when they are built. If it takes them 6 years to build each carrier, simultaneously building 7 means they would have to turn out around 70-80 combat planes a year just for their carriers. This is probably greater than their entire current annual entire combat aircraft production capacity.
FarkTypeSoldier
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If China could build two CVs at the same time, then what about those LPDs?
Wondering...
Love Boat ??? Maybe someone could post a video with the "Love Boat Theme" She does look cushy as far as crew accomodations...... just being obnoxious here folks, Jeff did post some pictures on the J-15 thread of several in batch production, looking fairly close to the real deal, I'm thinking this spring first or second cruise?????
as noted, Jeff posted some pictures on the J-15 thread, showing batch production, with some well along in the process.
there are 3 yards capable of building carrier in China: Dalian, Huludao and JN Changxin, but it seems like only DL and JN will be building it in the future.
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