Posted on 06/17/2022 8:46:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin
n a ribbon-cutting ceremony held at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, officials unveiled the Type 003 warship. The Fujian — which, according to officials cited in state media, would not be battle-ready for five years — is an important milestone in Beijing’s ambitions to develop a “blue water” navy, capable of projecting power far beyond its shores.
The carrier has been the focus of intense interest among military observers and rival nations tracking the development of China’s navy. China’s first two carriers include a retrofit of an old Soviet model, the Liaoning, bought from Ukraine in 1998, and the Shandong, which was built in China but based on the Liaoning model and commissioned in 2019.
It is the first Chinese carrier to be equipped with an electromagnetic catapult for launching aircraft, including those with a heavier payload, faster and more efficiently. The technology leapfrogs the “ski jump” configuration for launching jets via a ramp at the end of a runway used on China’s other two carriers.
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The area that is protected from view seems to be where the workings of an electromagnetic launch system would be installed. My guess is that China thinks that they have a superior design and want to shield it from US satellite surveillance.
Five years for the first one then the gooks mass produce them. They are learning....
I think for surface ships conventional power is a plus, it increases survivability.
China had many enemies including India which is also advancing their carrier fleet.
Not really.
That’s our recipe as well.
Its not like their spies couldn’t ferret this out, right?
I thought after Ukraine and Russia and ship sinking by missiles, that Carriers were ‘obsolete’.
Carriers will be obsolete when the need for air superiority over huge swaths of open ocean becomes obsolete.
I love this sh*t.
The ChiComm morons still haven’t figured out how to float the carrier Russia gave these baboons 20 years ago. And the ChiComms at the Washington Poo expect us to believe that China has launched a new carrier? HAHAHAHAHAHA!
The only thing to believe about the ChiComm idiots is that their abortion policy has murdered China’s ascendancy for the next 100 years. Nobody in China is having replacement babies. It’s now a nation of old grandpas and grandmas.
Vietnam is going to start eating large chunks of China. So will India. And the idiots predicting that the grandpa ChiComms will take over Russian Siberia are drunk out of their gourds.
Unrep: Cruising in a straight line at 6kts in the company of at least 2 oilers. No CAP.
Refuel in port: Stationary target. No CAP.
Either way a sitting duck.
China has enemies all around it’s coast. Their navy would be sunk quickly.
Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia.
They only need land based missiles to sink the Chinese navy.
By you definition there is place for a surface fleet PERIOD.
I think you’re right. Thanks for sharing.
You miss my point.
By starting with a new design, not hampered by legacy, they may be able to out-innovate the US. There will be absolutely nothing for their spies to steal from us, because we could be the ones left behind.
Well, that is a possibility. It may be true that carriers are so old hat that their secrets aren’t really secrets any longer. That would leave innovation a place for a clean start.
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