Will they install a EMALS catapult near by?
No, why would they? There's already one around Huludao, and that's pretty sufficient.
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00X/004 future nuclear CATOBAR carrier thread
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No, why would they? There's already one around Huludao, and that's pretty sufficient.
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I can see they put more support blocks on but little else, however i wouldn't know what to look at beyond the drydock. I have found some images from the initial Shandong construction stages and it seemed to advance faster. However, i guess the downside of following in pretty much real time the construction of something like a CVN is that everything seems to take so long. I wonder when the first support blocks were installed, probably February? That's when the first rumours of 004 being under construction appeared iirc.
The separate outlines for the keel blocks seem very curious to me.
In which way? Suspicious in the way it hints towards indeed an aircraft carrier or not?
My concern or curiosity is mostly since I do not understand why they split the vessel! Is the one on the left related to a different - maybe civil - one and they will transfer this half-finished vessel before the right one will be finished, but then is the right one from what we see right now "large" enough to be an aircraft carrier?
Thats what I meant. We're seemingly seeing keel block outlines for parts of two separate vessels. Maybe this is Dalians way of maximising production pace, lifting out some partially completed modules for further construction elsewhere, but it seems a curious way of assembly.
Indeed, just look at the CV-17 in the same dock!
Why building another vessel (left) in front of the carrier (right) and not only the carrier - if it is one - and IMO this what we suppose to be the 004 looks not long enough to be an aircraft carrier! Or is the "carrier" cut in two pieces? But why then not directly in one piece?
IMO it makes no sense ...