PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)

According to our ever-reliable Henri K., the second of the Chinese-built carriers will commence construction in March 2016 @ Jiangnan Shipyard.

Any news on the first of Chinese-built carriers? Photos would be swell!

He also said it would be a CATOBAR. I guess march 2016 is first steel cutting, which would mean as many as four years from that date to keel laying. and then Another four until launch. And then another 2-3 until comissioning with PLAN. And then another 1-2 years until initial operational capability declared. Timetable taken from USN's Ford carrier. So around 2027-2028. Type 001a should be active for some half a decade by then, though.

I expect JN's CV to be substantially smaller than Ford or Nimitz class; maybe forrestal size more like. I imagine that will cut off some of the time from the Ford derived timetable.

Then again this will be JN's first carrier and if it's CATOBAR it will likely have substantial differences from 001A and even more from 001, so who knows. Then there's the question of whether they will be using IEPS and EMALS on 002 which will further influence the time projected...

I wonder what DL will be doing after it launches 001A; will they build another copy of 002 while JN is half way through their construction of 002, or will they wait it out...

I am pretty sure IEPS would be applied to all Chinese big warship after 2020, including carrier

SinoSoldier said:

According to our ever-reliable Henri K., the second of the Chinese-built carriers will commence construction in March 2016 @ Jiangnan Shipyard.

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Heck...enough of all of the talk from these folks! (pardon my frustration)

They are talking about dates for the start of the second indigenous carrier and we have yet to see ANY pictures showing that the 1st indigenous carrier has ever been started!

Jeez...talk is cheap.

In the mean time...we know they have and are operating the Liaoning.

SinoSoldier said:

According to our ever-reliable Henri K., the second of the Chinese-built carriers will commence construction in March 2016 @ Jiangnan Shipyard.

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who is henri k and why is he reliable?

SinoSoldier said:

According to our ever-reliable Henri K., the second of the Chinese-built carriers will commence construction in March 2016 @ Jiangnan Shipyard.

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By 'second' do you mean first fully indigenous carrier since Chinese media often report the Liaoning as being the 'first' Chinese-built carrier even if it was not built from the hull up.

no_name said:

By 'second' do you mean first fully indigenous carrier since Chinese media often report the Liaoning as being the 'first' Chinese-built carrier even if it was not built from the hull up.

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He means second as in second indigenously produced carrier as in third overall, I believe.
I think it's fairly well accepted that DL is producing 001A, the first indigenously produced carrier.

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Regarding Henri K, I'm not sure who exactly he is (I think he's french?) but he seems to have made quite a few predictions regarding PLAN matters, although I don't follow him enough to know how accurate he is -- I'm not even sure which forum he actually frequents, but I believe he made a post regarding 055's specs quite early on that was cited in the 055 thread. I think he also maintains a youtube channel with a variety of CCTV and chinese language clips on PLA matters.

Edit: he seems to post quite a lot on this french maritime/naval forum .
The post sinosoldier references specifically is here:

Yes that is the forum I found him. The Chinese affairs section is almost made up exclusively of his updates. Google translate will do a decent job from french to english.

Google translate also allows you to translate entire webpage by pasting url into the text box, and you can thereafter navigate in the new language by clicking on links.

Also he post lots of good pictures, and many pics that we have he posts them larger