PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)

Not steam, very probably EML. Go to google earth, see 305902N 1212022E. What is it, what could it be? Measure it. Keep an eye on it, might be the answer to what you want to know.

Jeff Head said:

We do not know if it is even happening.

We know the Chinese have been working on catapults...but these rumors about a system actually being live tested have been ongoing for years.

This is another one. it is This is simply a single line, unsourced, undocumented post on a "news" page of a forum...not a news article from any credible source.

Let's not use SD to spread undocumented, unsourced, rumors.

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it's not rumor, it's widely reported in Chinese news.

Ma Weimin, the leading scientist who is in charge of the EM program, was asked by journalists about China's catapult system during the NPC meeting, Ma's reply was: the technology is ready, it's up to the navy to make the final decision.

I doubt its emals. Emals would require a lot of power that could only be provided by an iep system. Plus emals is a very immature technology, even by US standards.

dvan0 said:

I doubt its emals. Emals would require a lot of power that could only be provided by an iep system. Plus emals is a very immature technology, even by US standards.

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If a senior Chinese official involved in the project says it is ready, I will take his word for it.

the decision for the PLA navy to make is: go steam, or go emals, it's not imminent, the first carrier China is going to build will not install catapult.

Ma is a professor, he is also a senior PLA officer with a rank of rear admiral.

LesAdieux said:

it's not rumor, it's widely reported in Chinese news.

Ma Weimin, the leading scientist who is in charge of the EM program, was asked by journalists about China's catapult system during the NPC meeting, Ma's reply was: the technology is ready, it's up to the navy to make the final decision.

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Could you provide a link to where he says this to journalists?

dvan0 said:

I doubt its emals. Emals would require a lot of power that could only be provided by an iep system. Plus emals is a very immature technology, even by US standards.

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The catapult itself may be ready. The systems around it...who can say. That said, IEPS isn't the only way to supply that power.

Bltizo said:

Could you provide a link to where he says this to journalists?

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I searched the Chinese media, there're lots reports about it, but they all trace to a report by a hongkong newspaper "hongkong commercial daily" HKMD, I don't know how reliable it is.

this is the link to the phoenix news,

LesAdieux said:

this is the link to the phoenix news,

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The article you linked itself is rehashed from another. I think this is the original:


He didn't say the catapult is an EMAL:

解放軍多位高級將領昨日接受本報獨家采訪時證實
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電磁彈射器發明人，解放軍動力與電氣工程專家馬偉明少將也向本報指出，中國艦載機彈射起飛技術完全沒有問題，實踐多次也很順利，有信心運用到現實當中去，他強調，中國掌握的技術已經不輸美國，甚至更為先進

Multiple PLA general confirmed during yesterday's interviews by this paper
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EMAL inventor, PLA power and electrical engineering specialist, lieutenant general(?), Ma Weiming said Chinese has mastered the naval catapult system. System testing is progressing smoothly. He is confident it is ready for deployment. He also said Chinese technology is not behind US', may even be more advance