CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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Should be very recent since the diesels seem to have been running. Don't see the training ship behind tho, then again Fujian's big gurl xD. I'd say somewhere around February or March.Self-explanatory. Not sure when the footage was taken.
In the China National Defense and Military Channel of China Central Radio and Television, CCTV conducted an interview with Zhang Chuanqian, the head of a certain department of the "Fujian" ship. In the interview, Colonel Zhang Chuanqian clearly mentioned that the "Fujian" ship is the "first aircraft carrier equipped with electromagnetic ejection and arresting devices" of our army.
Satellite image from today (March 16, 2023).
Via Sentinel-2 (L1C)
Bottom left of the picture is the MSC ship being delivered aka world's biggest container ship for now. This title seems to be changing every number of months lately, the last being an OOCL ship from same yard.
There might be two 052C on the fitting pool there.
Barracks ship has showed up near the Fujian. Is this one of the existing two or a new purposely made one for the Fujian? It could be deployed there to support the workers working on the ship like we have seen with the previous carriers.
The comments from people below:
I see, the position where the blue shelf was first revealed has not been moved. I thought the high-definition one at the end of last year was the blue shelf. It seems that Jiangnan Shipyard really has at least two 055s.
@冷少其实不太冷：看到了，最早爆出蓝架子那个位置，原来一直没动啊，我还以为去年年底那个高清的是蓝架子这个挪过去了呢，看来江南实锤至少两艘55了
In fact, the main intention of the uploader of this picture is not for the image of the Fujian aircraft carrier, but to show that there is a second 055 under construction in the blue shed at the bottom left of the picture.
Should be 89, cause 88 is in Dalian nearby of Liaoning