PLAN Aircraft Carrier programme...(Closed)
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Thank you for your intresting comment. What is your estimate of the displacement of the other ships that is being assembled in the drydock (for comparison)?
Thank you for your intresting coment. That sounds like a "one of" ship. Everytime I have looked on that production line they have only chewed out the same uniform ships for the last years. Wouldnt a smaller specialist shipyard be better suited for that?
The smaller specialist shipyards might be too small or ( unlikely at this time ) too busy.
I have been thinking about the production of Chinese flattops. Contracts for preparing the shipyards to build large naval vessels were signed in the second half of 2013. Trade in the shares in one of the owner companies was halted from May to September. After that the production of modules would have started in Dalian a year and a half ago. Occupancy of the building dock started about half a year ago. Chinese shipyards are among the most modern in the World so a CV will occupy that dock for no more than four years. They will want to stagger the production of flattops between Dalian and JN because of the effort necessary to install and test the installations and train the crew. So the next flattop will appear at JN in a year and a half time and module production in half a year time. If it appears earlier than production will be faster.
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In continuation, and this is just a model:
If China is now going for six flattops in this program, not necessary identical ships but using the same time lines, than the sixth should be ready in some fourteen years plus the time to complete the last one say around 2030.
It might be that that the initial plan is shorter and that one of the shipyards will go over to the production of say large LHD's, but I don't think there is a plan to interrupt or end aircraft carrier production at both shipyards.
If China is now going for six flattops in this program, not necessary identical ships but using the same time lines, than the sixth should be ready in some fourteen years plus the time to complete the last one say around 2030.
It might be that that the initial plan is shorter and that one of the shipyards will go over to the production of say large LHD's, but I don't think there is a plan to interrupt or end aircraft carrier production at both shipyards.
I do not know, delft...they cite no source.
Hehehe...perhaps they have been watching SD.
But this report sounds more official than that, like they have read something in the Chinese press or online that gives some more specific information.
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Subotai- for your information, Want China Times isn't regarded highly here on SDF. I'm not saying you must stop using it or anything...
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