Chinese aircraft carrier development

China's Future Aircraft Carrier.jpg And these guys?
 

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Catapults and ski ramp? Why? The drawing suggests the catapult ends at the base of the ramp. At the minimum, this would mean the waist catapults will be different.

Didn't they say they were not using EMALS for any initial build due to technical issues? Or have they now said they have it all figured out and will be using them?
 
It'll have catapults and a ski ramp and blackjack and hookers and spray ice death from bloody stumps.
 
Seems criticism of aircraft carriers is OK unless it strays into Chinese shipyards.
 
I wouldn't attach much reliability to a random fan-drawn pic off the internet. Note what appear to be Okhotniks queueing for takeoff. Same username (wen98) also has pictures of mecha, but I'm fairly sure they won't be rolling out of Chinese arsenals anytime soon.
 
Yep nice fanart, at least a third of that stuff is kitbashed Shipbucket drawings.
Sadly the real thing is never as cool as fanart.
 
ceccherini said:
iPhone6Minus said:
View attachment 640851Seems like the project before Varyag came to China.
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No, it's the now building 003, the island design match the mockup so the actual thing could very well end to look like this picture.
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I need to make a correction both you and me. This model was came out at the graduation paper of Meng Xiangyin from Harbin Engineering University in 2010. It was use to do the simulation for airflow field. Maybe it does not relate with any project.
 
Oceanographic, survey, or rescue vessel able to be converted into a drone or full decked aircraft carrier during wartime would be my guess? the seeming lack of military markings makes me lean that direction instead of a purpose built helicopter or drone carrier
 
Maybe people can comment on the hull of this new, odd, Chinese aviation ship. I'm not an engineer, but it looks like the freeboard, or height to flight deck, seems really low. Like it doesn't seem like a long distance, blue water combatant. More like a littoral environment.

Maybe near-shore ASW (esp against submarine-based intelligence gathering). Or maybe something specific to operations against the island of Taiwan?
 
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Hi,
The low freeboard, apparent lack of lifts, and leads me wonder if it might be some sort of training ship, maybe for deck handling or something like that.

Pat
 
PFJN said:
Hi,
The low freeboard, apparent lack of lifts, and leads me wonder if it might be some sort of training ship, maybe for deck handling or something like that.

Pat
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Seems like a lot of work just for deck-handling training. Could just pave a parking lot in the right shape for that.
 
observer144 said:
Seems like a lot of work just for deck-handling training. Could just pave a parking lot in the right shape for that.
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Hi,
I'm not sure that a shore side facility would be ablet to fully prepare deck crew for dealing with ship motions and Motion Induced Interruptions (MIIs).
 

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