Yeah, I thought their next one might be big
No ski jump?
Doesn’t look very intimidating.
Its one thing to build them. Its an entirely different and probably more critical need to train a competent crew. Without the tradition of naval aviation , combat experience and the hard won lessons learned over eighty years on carriers, that ship may be outdated before it is fully functional and effective.
Ohheck! Ididn’t notice this: four electric catapults for quickly launching... Not steam catapults; they must really have good spys.
Still in the planning stages, and since that ship is supposed to be a nuke, and a CATOBAR launcher, it will be unlike their other two hulls. Gonna be a loooooooooooooong time before that thing sees water, much less active service, even if they have a crew that can run it. It’s taking the US 7 years from laying the keel to commissioning a Ford Carrier, and that’s largely because we’ve been building nukes for forty years already. In all likelihood, by the time the Chinese “Nimitz” takes its place in the Line, the US Nimitz hulls will all be considered obsolete and will already have their decommission dates set (even if they’re still in service). There will be at least 4 Ford carriers in service by then, maybe more; Enterprise is scheduled for commissioning in 2025, and I don’t expect a Chinese nuclear carrier much before 2030.
Also, is it just me, or are their trap wires set rather forward? Their model shows the wires right in front of the “Island”.
Never mind, I missed the reflection; their “Island” is set more aft, like the Ford carriers, but even then, the wires do still look a bit too far forward.
Is it going to fall apart like all the crap that I have that is stamped MADE IN CHINA?
Still require command, control and logistics.
They are behind us.
Chinese labor is.
I doubt they can build one - not functional, anyway.