CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread

Orthan

Senior Member
FZGFZY is corroborating rumors that both JN and DL are constructing this class of aircraft carrier:

My translation is poor, but here are a few summary points:
1. He has been talking about a dual JN-DL assembly line for many years now
2. There is a time gap between JN and DL, but this may be mitigated by the fact that the carrier underwent steam/EMALS competition
3. The question now is whether the 3rd carrier and 4th carrier are "on the same level" (i.e. in the same class)
4. It is unlikely that the 4th carrier is nuclear-powered

What is "dual"? is it meaning that JN builds 3rd carrier and DL builds 4th ? The US only has one aircraft carrier shipyard. Will china build that many carriers, that it needs to have 2 carriers built at the same time? Or it will be at turns, in which one get built by one shipyard, and the next by the other shipyard?
 

longmarch

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Remember it's not original plan to build them simultaneously. It became like this because of the PK so one got delayed.
In orther words, you would have seen one much earlier not for the PK.
 

Sczepan

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now noticed the tweet
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The module appearing at JNCX shipyard several days ago basically can be confirmed to be the submodule of 003 CV's engine compartment.
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only to compare the structur, number of decks etc. …. there are a lot of differences, something could be similar Shanghai Module 2014-11-b.jpg
 
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