CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

Richard Santos

Captain
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They still made the funnel abut the radar mast. Wonder why they did not can the funnel outboard. Would not have made the island bigger, but would both provide more spacing between funnel and radar mast and but exhaust gas father off the ship’s midline and landing approach path.
 

Broccoli

Senior Member
Smock stack detected, it is guaranteed now that this carrier is going to be conventionally powered. However this conventional carrier island is a lot smaller than I pictured in my head, good for them.

Forrestals and Kitty Hawks also had "compact" islands even thought both were diesel carriers while nuclear carrier like the De Gaulle has relatively large island when compared to it's overall size.
 
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