maybe those mockup can be refitted to become uav carrier or something in the future...
PLAN Carrier Construction
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Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Another BS news specially come from Kanwa the least trusted source for Chinese military information. I don't believe there will be any Ukrainian engineer. They were there when Dalian refurbished the ex Varyag. But by noe the Chinese know the Liaoning inside out. Come one all of those
SinoSoldier
Colonel
Let the guess games begin
Uh...what guessing game?
We have been discussing the 1st picture in detail for some time so there's really nothing new there.
And the 2nd picture?
That shows an old picture of the Liaoning before it was ever completed...so probably two years old, with some kind of vessel (probably a tanker or something) building next to it.
I don't understand the point.
Blackstone
Brigadier
When China built their first destroyer, do they do a mock up? And Carrier to China is not really that new, China had been studying carrier for decades, and although Liaoning is a refitted carrier, but if one follow the Liaoning history, one would know that when China recieve that ship it was basically just an empty shell, and so when China refit it, it was basically doing everything almost from scratch. I think China would already have enough experiences with it.
As to suggestion that Ukrainian naval engineer are in Shanghai shipyard to help with the construction, then it would tell you more that mockup is impossible. Why the hell would China require help from other nation's engineer to build a mock up? Seriously, a little common sense here.
I'm simply pointing out that it wouldn't be an unusual move. I'm not discounting how extensive the refit of the Varyag into the Liaoning is, but a refit is still very different from hull construction. If Ukranian engineers are involved in the construction process, I would find the mockup scenario far less likely. I don't subscribe to that particular theory though.
【环球网综合报道】据日本共同社8月26日报道，《简氏防务周刊》8月早些时候援引卫星图片称，中国显然已开始在上海建造首艘本土航母。但汉和称，这份杂志很有可能是误将两栖攻击舰视为航母了。
汉和称，中国正在上海建造首艘能够搭载多艘气垫船和直升机的两栖攻击舰。这艘攻击舰的满载排水量为3.5万吨，中国可能最早于2015年将此舰编入现役，以提升该国海军的登陆作战能力。
报道称，中国目前已有三艘2万吨级的071型两栖战舰，眼下正在建造第四艘。但该国尚未拥有上述规模的能够搭载众多直升机和登陆艇的大型舰船。预计这艘两栖攻击舰将搭载四艘气垫船——中国已向乌克兰购买了其中一艘气垫船——和20架直升机。
according to kanwa, China is building a new 35000 ton LHD,and likely enter service around 2015
汉和称，中国正在上海建造首艘能够搭载多艘气垫船和直升机的两栖攻击舰。这艘攻击舰的满载排水量为3.5万吨，中国可能最早于2015年将此舰编入现役，以提升该国海军的登陆作战能力。
报道称，中国目前已有三艘2万吨级的071型两栖战舰，眼下正在建造第四艘。但该国尚未拥有上述规模的能够搭载众多直升机和登陆艇的大型舰船。预计这艘两栖攻击舰将搭载四艘气垫船——中国已向乌克兰购买了其中一艘气垫船——和20架直升机。
according to kanwa, China is building a new 35000 ton LHD,and likely enter service around 2015
I would take that report with a pinch of salt (infact I would take it with a large spoonful of salt).
1st reason, it is from Kanwa and we all know how inaccurate their report was, second reason, there are absolutely no references, no nothing to back that report out, 3rd from what I understand China bought the zubr from Ukraine. From that report... you mean, that 35000ton LHD can carry a Zubr? Really? and that is... it can carry the monster Zubr and still 20 helicopters.
Unless China is buying smaller hover crafts from Ukraine... which again make no sense since China could build their own hovercrafts.