Yes, you're right, typo on my part.
PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)
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Yes, you're right, typo on my part.
He was not talking about fanbois. He was talking about "lots of users here", that claims "PLAN is on the same level as US Navy as they construct their first carrier".
A troll trolling, that's what it is.
Money is a big factor. but if you don't have the money, it's your problem, not China's. To indicate that somehow China doesn't need to prioritize its military spending is just more trolling.
Economy is more fundamental in long term projection. If China's economy falters, all bets are off. Under normal circumstances though, Chinese economy would have surpassed US in 15 years, and still growing. Once that happens, other things would follow.
After that, who know what comes next. All great powers rise and fall, China is no exception.
A troll trolling, that's what it is.
Money is a big factor. but if you don't have the money, it's your problem, not China's. To indicate that somehow China doesn't need to prioritize its military spending is just more trolling.
Economy is more fundamental in long term projection. If China's economy falters, all bets are off. Under normal circumstances though, Chinese economy would have surpassed US in 15 years, and still growing. Once that happens, other things would follow.
After that, who know what comes next. All great powers rise and fall, China is no exception.
And he was told that we have not seen "lots of users here" doing that.
My own post was meant to convey the same message.
There are some fanbois who believe this, and sometimes they do get on SD an say such things...but they become educated fairly quickly here if they do.
That is all.
The Chinese consider the flight deck complete, as the openings have been left open on purpose and I'm under the impression that they could seal those in a matter of hours if they wanted to. Strictly speaking, it's not complete, but arguably, if the dockyard setting off firecrackers is any indication, the flight deck can be considered complete.
Err, well the openings in the flight deck are there because they still have work to do inside the hull of the ship. I'm sure they could seal up the openings if they really wanted to quite easily, but that would make accessing certain parts of the ship harder. Whether they are able to seal up the openings quickly doesn't change the fact that they're still being left open for the time being (for good reason), and so the flight deck isn't really complete.
Adding the ski jump to the rest of the carrier definitely is a major milestone, but if one really wants to claim it is "complete" then it would require all the openings to be sealed up.
Not really a fair comparison.
The Ford is 100,000 tons and is a brand new class introducing all sorts of brand new technology.
001A is a rebuild of the Liaoning, a 30 year old design which does not innovate new technologies.
Once the US got on a roll with the Nimitz class...they would lay down and then launch those carriers in about three years.
For example, the John Stennis, CVN-74 was:
Laid down 13 March 1991
Launched 11 November 1993
That's two yeas and eight months from laying down to launch.
And she is a 100,000 ton, nuclear, CATOBAR carrier with four elevators, could carry 90 aircraft, and was, at the time of her launch, the most modern and capable carrier in the world.
The Chinese are doing a GREAT job.
They laid 001A down in Fenruary 2015. She may launch in mid to late 2017. Two and a half years is good...but for such a known qunatiity and a smaller vessel without the types of propulsion (nuclear), launch (CATs), and capabilities, it simply, IMHO does not compare with what the US did with the USS John Stennis.
Probably not in hours.
Perhaps a few days depending on how they engineered it. But something that MUS be done in any case to hve a complete flight deck...as I said before.
I seriously, seriously doubt it.
They Chinese do not want to "rush" anything or make it even look like something is pressuring them.
Quite frankly...it's not.
With the flight deck needing completin,. With no island. No elevators. With a LOT of internal work to be done.
My guess is mid-2017 perhaps.
We shall see.
Yes. I was wondering if and when someone would mention it.
You mean this? (Island):
It is sitting there, all lined up to the left of the vessel.
Will probably be lifted pretty soon.
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