00X/004 future nuclear CATOBAR carrier thread

[proelite]

Proof that there still is a chimney at the carrier mockup, and it's working actively against all observers

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It's over.

 

[para80]

It would admittedly be wild if PLAN inducts two different conventional CATOBAR designs before transitioning to CVNs.

 

[Nill]

It would admittedly be wild if PLAN inducts two different conventional CATOBAR designs before transitioning to CVNs.

I remember there being talk about two Liaoning type carriers plus two Fujian types before moving to CVN.

 

[Xiongmao]

I remember there being talk about two Liaoning type carriers plus two Fujian types before moving to CVN.

I always thought to myself that it would be a bit imprudent of the PLAN to start building a CVN even before the Fujian first of its class has even finished its sea trials yet.

 

[bd popeye]

CVN-65 is a special case since it is originally designed for conventional power, but later switched out its boilers by nuclear reactors one by one. Having eight nuclear reactors on a single ship makes for ridiculous speeds, but is way overkill and the sky high costs caused all sister ships to be cancelled.

Enterprise was built from the keel up as a nuclear powered carrier. The first of six in it's class.

USS Enterprise was commissioned into the Navy in 1961. Enterprise was to be the first of a new class of six nuclear carriers giving them theoretically unlimited range. Cost overruns and technical issues involving Enterprise caused the cancellation of the rest of the ships of the class, and the long-serving Nimitz class was built eventually instead. The Kitty Hawk class was built before the Nimitz class.

 

[kwaigonegin]

If the 004 still don't have the balcony in the back for jet engine testing (which all USN carriers have and the 003 don't), I'm NOT gonna be happy at all

I like balcony .. in the USN it's called a fantail. Very useful for jet testing, launching weather balloons and just amazing view looking aft. Especially when the props are churning and you see all the white foam forming up.

 

[bd popeye]

Very useful for jet testing

You mean like this?

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U.S. Sailors from the aviation intermediate maintenance department jet shop performs a jet engine test cell on an F/A-18 Super Hornet jet engine on the fantail aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Atlantic Ocean, April 14, 2019. IKE is underway conducting flight deck certification during the basic phase of the Optimized Fleet Response Plan (OFRP). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Andrew Waters)

ALL US Navy carriers have a Jet Shop on the fantail to repair jet engines as necessary..jet engines do break..

 

[by78]

A closer view of the island of the carrier mockup.

 

[AndrewJ]

Put the conventional island at the rear??? That doesn't make any sense. So strange...

 

[Deino]

A closer view of the island of the carrier mockup.

Indeed, the more I see, the more I‘m confused son…