PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)

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Jeff Head

Jeff Head

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Jeff, that is a carrier !!!!

Just take a look at the Soviet Super Carrier !!

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The above picture is the Ulyanovsk at 40% completion !
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I have seen those pics many times...as well as pics of about every other carrier built during construction in the last 35 years.

I am not convinced at all at this point.

Time will tell.
 
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kriss

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Since the open gap in the hull is the major fact against this ship being a carrier, could someone explain how many consist large space a.k.a very big rooms are there in an aircraft carrier? Hangar is the largest one of course. There is also engine room and fuel tank but they should be at bottom of the ship right? Or it could be ammunition storage and jet fuel storage. I am not quite familiar to how ammunition is stored onboard a ship but I assume it requires a warehouse-like structure and room for elevators etc.
 
lcloo

lcloo

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At this stage of construction, I believe the engine may not yet be placed in the ship, thus the roof of the engine room is not yet build, thus the impression of large cargo hold.

Attached is photo of engine room with 2 diesel engines for 20,000+ tons PLAN replenishment ship with 19 knots max speed. Visually, I would said the engine room takes up no less than 4 deck deep of hull space.

I expect the engine room of a ship with 40,000 tons to 60,000 tons displacement and speed exceeding 30 knots would occupy twice the space of this replenishment ship. A large room is required.

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plawolf

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Its amazingly clean for any conventional engine room.

The key question is whether that photo was taken shortly after the ship was commissioned, or if it was just a regular day in the life of a line ship.

If this is what PLAN ships looks like during normal deployments, then that is a phenomenal achievement to keep the ships in such pristine conditions.
 
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Janiz

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He's inspecting the machine this way as it's the easiest way to check it by simply listening to how it's working. An experienced mechanic can pick up any irregularities by ear. If he hears that something is worng then comes time for further and more detailed inspection.
 
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delft

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I remember reading about a chief engineer getting out of his bunk and arriving in the engine room of a steam ship twenty minutes before something broke. Similar things happened with slow speed diesel engines. But it is more difficult with turbines and with medium and high speed diesels. Soon all such engines will be fitted with sensors so a computer can permanently listen to all vibrations in the machinery.
 
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