Posted on 11/11/2019 4:51:20 PM PST by Zhang Fei
China is forging ahead with the construction of its third aircraft carrier in under a decade, highlighting the scale of Beijing’s maritime ambitions.
A series of satellite images from the Jiangnan shipyard, recently published by a China-focused think tank, shed light on the ongoing construction of China’s Type 002 carrier. The images reveal a typical military vessel construction site, replete with a floodable basin and multiple sluice gates. While the haziness of the photos makes it difficult to discern the carrier’s dimensions, the hull appears to measure forty meters in width by forty-eight meters in length. If prior reports are accurate, Type 002 will be larger and much heavier than its predecessors at a displacement of up to eighty-five thousand tons versus the sixty thousand to seventy thousand tons. The carrier is widely expected to feature a conventional propulsion system, though other technical details remain scant.
Perhaps the most striking aspect of the Type 002’s development is the breakneck speed at which it is being produced and transferred to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), with its commission set for 2022. Type 002’s most recent predecessor, Type 001A, was laid down in 2013 and is still undergoing sea trials. Even China’s oldest aircraft carrier, the Type 001 Liaoning, was only declared battle-ready as late as 2016, on the heels of a tortured acquisition and retrofit process.
Furthermore, the Chinese navy is reportedly already laying plans for Type 002’s successor: the nuclear-powered Type 003. As military commentator Song Zhongping told the South China Morning Post, Type 002 may be the last one of its kind: “The Type 002—a conventionally powered carrier with an EMALS-like system—may become the only one of that kind of aircraft carrier, because China will next build multiple nuclear-powered aircraft battle platforms.”
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I thought aircraft carriers were siting ducks and not part of the latest military naval technology.
What China invested in when we were wasting trillions in the Mideast for 20 years.
but do their planes and pilots work
The defender has to spend money on weapons all the time, because they dont know when they will be attacked.
The aggressor has the advantage of being able to defer spending money until just before they are ready to make their move.
My guess is China is looking at making some moves in the next 10 years.
Exactly. Building carriers and effectively operating them - two different things.
Every wonder where all our clunkers went Obama paid us for and then GAVE to China?
In a war with a first world country, I wouldn’t count on the carrier being there when the strike sortie comes back.
China’s challenge will be keeping them afloat when their gender and age crises rear their ugly heads.
And it is funded with US dollars. Trump is the first president with the will to stand up to them.
Yep, the US has 80+ years of experience in building, maintaining, and operating them. All the stolen plans in the world won’t train a flight deck crew.
China is busily building a fleet of the largest container ships the world has ever seen. -— But like the Trojan Horse of ancient Greek civilization, the fleet could potentially be used by China in a spectacular, lightening invasion of Taiwan. Could the hollow hulls and empty decks of Chinese container ships carry infantry and mechanized divisions for a devastating attack on Taiwan, securing the island before the U.S. could respond?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/04/chinas_container_ship_fleet_an.html
They will just use conscripts. They have to get rid of the surplus males who can’t find a wife somehow.
6 carriers....
With Six You Get Eggroll. (At least we have that....)
Movie (1968 with Doris Day and Brian Keith) Synopsis added:”The title of the movie comes from a scene where the family goes out for Chinese food, and one of the kids notices that because they are a large group, they get something extra: “With six you get eggroll!”
Amazing what you can do with Gorilla Glue and duct tape... They learned, apparently, from the Russians...
The Chinese are getting a bigger bang for their buck destroying America by sending in container ships loaded with fentanyl offloaded into Mexico for distribution north by the cartels.
I wonder why we don’t build our carriers at breakneck speed?///
Or so we thought
the hull appears to measure forty meters in width by forty-eight meters in length.
Doesn’t sound right to me but what do I know.
Speaking of those container ships, I wouldn’t wonder
if the Chinese haven’t containerized some of their missiles.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Iranians haven’t done the
same thing.
Sounds like a tub...
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