some of the KBS photos
It Looks like KBS Photos is taken a few days ago or a week maybe.
Before 14th of January, 2016 ?
More Like per 9th of January, 2016 Photos
Isn't it?
Or Just my own feeling?
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It Looks like KBS Photos is taken a few days ago or a week maybe.
Before 14th of January, 2016 ?
More Like per 9th of January, 2016 Photos
Isn't it?
Or Just my own feeling?
steve_rolfe
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Modules highlighted in Orange are recent additions to the build of 001A. Someone has also drawn some aircraft on the diagram. I wonder if they are correct in scale terms. Anyway it looks good.
Blackstone
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Humm... only 17 J-15s plus helos? The Vikrant is supposed to be able to carry 30 Mig-29K, plus 10 Sea Kings or Ka-31s.
the point of having a turntable is to be able to turn the plane around without other machinery and without hitting anything around it. Of course, only a single plane can be on a turntable at a time.
Scale looks roughly ok, with three su33 taking up a spot 22,2 meters wide and hangar being 26 m wide. A meter here and there of clearance and one'd get pretty much what's show in the image.
Scale looks roughly ok, with three su33 taking up a spot 22,2 meters wide and hangar being 26 m wide. A meter here and there of clearance and one'd get pretty much what's show in the image.
Intrepid
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Three in one row is what you can see on hangar photos of Kuznetsov or Liaoning.
Blackstone
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If CV17 wouldn't carry more aircrafts than the Liaoning, then what did the new layout improve? Aircrew working space maybe?
not all in the hangar.
The US Navy does not carry its full wing in the hanger...and neither will the Chinese.
In addition, it is unlikely that they would ever fill the hanger like you see above. There has to be room to work on the aircraft...that is why the hanger is there.
The Liaoning can comfortably carry, meaning on deck and in the hanger, up to 24 J-15s, and then probably 12 helos. The new carrier will, in all likelihood have the same capacity. They may have more room n the hanger, they definitely will make improvements in the logistics of the carrier and in the spaces wherever they can. But we already know it is meant to be the same type of carrier as the Liaoning.
Having two of them, that operate the same, is going to save them a lot of money in logistics and in training and with their initial policies and procedures.
When they go to the CATOBAR carriers, they will shift somewhat, and you can bet that they will build probably two of those for the same reasons...and the shift from a conventional CATOBAR carrier to a nuclear one, which I believe will be the 3rd step, except in the propulsion spaces, will be very similar to the conventional CATOBAR carriers they build.
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asif iqbal
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Imagine CV-16 and CV-17 both simultaneously under going a replenishment by Type 901 !!!
MwRYum
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That's not possible, for the CV-16 design has no opening on the port side, all fuel and stores transfer while underway will have to be done at the starboard side.
Besides, being conventional powered carriers, the fuel stores of one 901 would be hogged by one CV-16/17. Breaking the 20 knots ceiling is the major breakthrough on 901.
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