PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)

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Blackstone

Brigadier
There are several articles on the subject on the Internet.

Basically, there was a problem with a heat exchanger, which blew, releasing steam, which temporary put the engines of the carrier out of action, while the vessel was on an exercise sometime in 2014.
Gordon Chang and Want China Times aren't credible original sources, can you list the ones you trust that didn't merely repeat the incident from another news agency?
 

steve_rolfe

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Gordon Chang and Want China Times aren't credible original sources, can you list the ones you trust that didn't merely repeat the incident from another news agency?

Who mentioned 'Want China Times'?.........all my post says is that their was a problem with the engines, but it wasn't a show stopper, and yes some news agencies had exaggerated the story to make it look like there had been a major problem. :)
 

delft

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Who mentioned 'Want China Times'?.........all my post says is that their was a problem with the engines, but it wasn't a show stopper, and yes some news agencies had exaggerated the story to make it look like there had been a major problem. :)
The ship has four propellers, four or eight or so turbines, boilers ect. Damage to a part of the plant should stop no more than one propeller.
But what was the source?
 

taxiya

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Did we ever work out what engines the Liaoning is fitted with, and when they were installed?
Actually, I have never heard rumors of Liaoning using any other type of engine except steam turbine besides some netizen's wish. After all , Liaoning is ex-varyag which use steam turbine, and China only want to reactivate/refurbish it.
 

Blackstone

Brigadier
Who mentioned 'Want China Times'?.........all my post says is that their was a problem with the engines, but it wasn't a show stopper, and yes some news agencies had exaggerated the story to make it look like there had been a major problem. :)
The point of my message is for you to list your source, because there are some unreliable ones out there. So, what's your source of Liaoning engine failures that temporarily put the carrier out of action?
 

steve_rolfe

Junior Member
The point of my message is for you to list your source, because there are some unreliable ones out there. So, what's your source of Liaoning engine failures that temporarily put the carrier out of action?

A Chinese news report on the subject:-
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btw:- this is all old news, as this was discussed at the time on Chinese military forums. :)
 

plawolf

Lieutenant General
Well, one day, we will see this on the high seas. And it is not too far distant either. I give to you Liaoning and her sister:

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That's the best CGI of the Liaoning with her new sister I have seen...and that is what the vessel building in Dalian right now is going to produce.

I hope 001 isn't a copy and paste job of the Liaoning.

At a minimum I hope they use a clean slate island design that has a much smaller footprint.

I would be happy if it didn't even have PARs.
 

Jeff Head

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I hope 001 isn't a copy and paste job of the Liaoning.

At a minimum I hope they use a clean slate island design that has a much smaller footprint.

I would be happy if it didn't even have PARs.
Everything I have heard to date indicates that it may be the same basic design...perhaps a little smaller, and certainly, based on what we have seen at Wuhan, a different sensor configuration matching what is on that mock-up now would be my guess.

Like so:

PLAN-CV-New-Island.jpg

But we should see soon enough in Dalian.
 
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