PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)
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I love the Skyraider! It did a bang-up in 'Nam. Modernize it with glass cockpit and up to date avionics, and it and it'll outdo the Super Tucano.
The engine is about twice as powerful and I don't see that engine modernized. What about a very thoroughly modernized A2D?
One proposal for the war against Vietnam was equipping old P-51D's with 3000 shp RR Dart engines.
I would look for high powered single engine turboprop aircraft to a modern contra-prop say similar to those of the An-70. Remember the torque effects of a single propeller.
fzgfzy, a big shrimp on Chinese BBS has made another vague post that everyone is assuming to be about carrier 002.
Vast majority think that the competing schemes mentioned in Pt. 1 are steam catapults vs EMALS. Some think it's about nuclear vs steam propulsion. One person said it might be competition between steam and nuclear propulsion. Another guy jokingly suggested that it is a competition between J-20 and J-31 carrier versions.
Most assume the 'propulsion unchanged' means 002 is keeping with steam propulsion as opposed to keeping the power output unchanged. The second part of the sentence has stirred a long-winded debate on what the three characters mean. The three interpretations I've seen are:
1. "Compared to the legendary (大和), greater amount." 大和 is Chinese for Yamato. It's written the same in Japanese since they copied the language anyway. This interpretation itself has sub-interpretations:
- The displacement of the 002 is going to be greater than the Yamato's 70,000 tonnes. OR
- The power output of 002's propulsion is greater than Yamato's, although this sub-interpretation has been discredited since there is no way China today will have difficulties surpassing 1930s propulsion technology.
2. 大和多 in pinyin is "da he duo". 大很多 in pinyin is "da hen duo" and means 'much larger'. Some have suggested that fzgfzy missed an 'n' in his typing and originally meant that the 002 or her propulsion system will be much larger than rumoured.
3. "Compared to the rumoured, (大) 和 (多)." This interpretation suggests that fzgfzy meant for the 大(big) and 多(numerous) not to be together but to be separated by the conjunction 和(and). The English translation for this interpretation is "compared to the rumoured specs, they is larger and more numerous". This interpretation, I think, makes the most sense and would mean that the propulsion systems (boilers?) will be larger and more numerous than rumoured.
No one has definitively decoded what he means by 'houdu' being fixed. Houdu is 厚度's pinyin, which means thickness. People are theorising he means either the thickness of the sheet metal used in construction has been changed or the thickness of the boilers' walls have been optimised.
Weapons handling on the Liaoning.
True indeed ... their flight deck activities seem to be ramping up ( only to be expected) and the requisite aircraft handling, fuelling and arming procedures/skills are coming on well.
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