CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

[ansy1968]

Xiamen is indeed beautiful, especially the University. But a little expensive to live there. Have you visited the old fort there?

@SAC No bro, I stay there for 2 days after my trip to Tibet was cut short due to Altitude sickness...lol I learned my lesson to acclimatize before going. And also Xiamen compare to Guangzhou is much cheaper especially the food cause a lot of Taiwanese live and operate business there and I befriend a lot of them during my short 2 day stay...lol

 

[ansy1968]

Can we put this in the Real life thread? Esp since @ansy1968 is gonna derail this with talk about beautiful women. We just want to talk about steel and iron here.

@Crang Yes sir sorry, I won't derail this thread anymore I just happy that China is finally showing her true potential, carry on.

 

[SAC]

@SAC No bro, I stay there for 2 days after my trip to Tibet was cut short due to Altitude sickness...lol I learned my lesson to acclimatize before going. And also Xiamen compare to Guangzhou is much cheaper especially the food cause a lot of Taiwanese live and operate business there and I befriend a lot of them during my short 2 day stay...lol

Let us move this discussion elsewhere.

 

[eprash]

Damn the build quality is top notch even American ones aren't these good

 

[siegecrossbow]

 

[zszczhyx]

The top/second level is probably for the primary flight control (pri-fly) -- note that the second level extends out more in the port direction over the flight deck, and has a perspective to the rear of the ship as well, i.e.: the second level has a field of view that can surveil the overall flight deck to the front, port and rear side relative to the island.

The bottom/first level is probably the bridge, for navigation of the ship itself -- the first level only has a perspective to the front of the ship, with partial views to the starboard and port directions.


On the Nimitz class, the pri-fly is on the highest level, and you can see that the windows are similarly only on one half of the island, whereas the lower two levels of the island face forwards fully. The pri-fly level also has windows that are a bit larger.
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The Ford shows it even more obviously.
From the front you can see that only the second level from the top has windows facing forwards the full width of the island, is the navigation bridge.
However you can see multiple other levels where the windows only are on the port half of the island, and from the rear perspective you can see how the levels have a rear view of the flight deck.
I don't know which levels on Ford are its pri-fly, but I bet it would be the topmost one given the marginally greater size of its windows. That combined forward and rear perspective are sufficient for primary flight control purposes of the flight deck.

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.... so the answer as to why the windows on the top level/pri-fly level don't extend the full width of the island, I suspect it's because they don't need it to extend the full width -- extending it the full width wouldn't provide any additional field of view for flight deck control purposes.

 

[bluetree700]

Looking good!

 

[bustead]

Do we know if there will be other defensive armaments on 003? I can see 4 1130 guns from the photos thus far.

 

[Hendrik_2000]

Here is a good video to show how large is this new AC
The main content of this program: On the morning of June 17, the launching ceremony of China's third aircraft carrier was held at the Jiangnan Shipyard of China Shipbuilding Corporation. Approved by the Central Military Commission, China's third aircraft carrier was named "Fujian Ship of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy", with the hull number "18". The Fujian ship is the first catapult-type aircraft carrier designed and built by China completely. After the ship is launched, mooring tests and sailing tests will be carried out as planned.

 

[Helius]

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Shilao: finally we made that scene in Evangelion a reality

All that's missing is a Yak-38 for Kaji to skedaddle soon as sh*t hits the fan.




PLAN VTOL when?