PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)
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There are now used for storage or other things. They haven't enlarged the hangar deck as that would involved breaking down of some bearing structures.
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We have found here a long time ago that the hangar was not enlarged.
I think there is probably a sea eagle replacement in the magic lantern integrated mast at wuhan, probably a rotating array within the top faceted bulb with some other integrated arrays and antennae on the lower parts of the mast.
If I was a betting man I'd put money on 054A's successor fielding this mast.
Or perhaps refitted on to the 054A's themselves? Though this discussion belongs in another thread.
Or extra room for munition storage?
Intrepid
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Extra room for female crewmembers or more comfort for male crewmembers.
Probably between the time the new photos of the production aircraft came out and the prototype testing
vesicles
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This video sounds like a pretty recent one since the theme is the Labor Day celebration. It's a nice video that kind of implies why they spent so much time with only a few planes on board. In the video, one of the sailors explained that they had to experiment thousands to tens of thousands of times to determine where they should position themselves next to the plane to achieve the highest efficiency with the lowest risk of being injured by the plane. He says that although their actual moves are simple, it is taking them so much trial and error to hammer out the most effective and the safest way to do things. Sometimes, we forget about just how dangerous things are on a CV and what kind of steep learning curve that the PLAN sailors have to climb without any outside help.
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