CV-17 Shandong - Type 002 Aircraft Carrier News & Discussions

[cirr]

Preparations for the celebration ... but it seems to rain !

Here a bit larger:

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[GS Zhou]

the exciting date is approaching soon!! Time for party and music!

 

[hnlylclmy]

 

[JSCh]

 

[cirr]

 

[Han93]

 

[samsara]

dafeng cao is asking: Tomorrow will be the launching day?

https://twitter.com/x/status/856770979367866368

https://twitter.com/x/status/856761380338229248

 

[Deino]

 

[Dungeness]

April of 2017 is an exciting month for all Chinese patriots! We have just witnessed our First space cargo ship Tianzhou-1 docking with our First Space Lab Tiangong-2, and our First commercial passenger jet C919's high speed taxing. Now we will be witnessing the launching ceremony of our First indigenous aircraft carrier 001A. What a great era for China and Chinese people, and we are lucky enough to witness it all!

 

[grey boy 2]

 

[Deino]

According to reliable source that 001A is 313m in length, 13m longer than 001, 75m in width, 5m wider than 001
张召忠23日在cctv4" 海峡两岸 "节目上说 : " 我看现在曝出来的消息 , 它(指001A)的长度是313米 , 就好像是比原来的瓦良格长了13米 ,"
" 宽度是75米 , 原来是70米 , 好像宽了5米 , 这样飞行甲板面积就比原来大很多了 ."
http://tv.cntv.cn/video/C10323/fa457d75d46e4c3c950e3f3d4581cd05

Surely not ! If You compare satellite images from both carriers they are clearly exactly the same length and more or less all other dimensions too. The only difference is a slightly different deck geometry and a surely smaller island.

Maybe an idiot scaled images of both carriers to the same island-size and so surely the new carrier is longer and wider.

 

[terranMarine]

*******CELEBRATION TIME*********

 

[yusheng]

 

[j20blackdragon]

Pay attention to the speed of the aircraft carrier construction.

I want to remind everybody that the construction status of the 001A was like this in mid 2015.

China officially announced that it was building its second aircraft carrier in December 2015. New York Times report.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/01/...uilding-its-second-aircraft-carrier.html?_r=0

Late 2016.

Now ready to launch in early 2017. Great picture from Deino.

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Weapons and equipment, including the radar system, air defense system and communications system will be outfitted on the carrier over the next two years. The new aircraft carrier can begin sea trials by early 2019.
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1033999.shtml

This is very fast. China has more than one shipyard capable of doing this.

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

enjoys...sorry it's available only in Chinese. live