Is that right. The first America class took close to two years, the first 071 took less than a year. Ford was launched in 2013, you know what year it is now.
Bringing China into this, this is just like you, no wonder you were on my ignored list for so long, and after this you are going back on it.
In terms of Arleigh Burke, it took a few month longer than China's first type 52d.
Of course there are reasons for why some take longer than others, for America and China, but you are not interested in that, are you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arleigh_Burke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_052D_destroyer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_America_(LHA-6)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunlun_Shan_(998)
I compare the US Launch
NOT JUST WITH CHINESE but the rest of the world, Did you even get the detail UK launch of the QE Class and Daring as well? I used the launch hype from China because.
A.) Type 001A was launched 7 days ago, Tripoli 4 days ago
B.) Type 001A was at similar size and tonnage.
The launch requirement I emphasis is on the launch date across different ship
WITHIN THE UNITED STATE NAVY, they are much nearly the same between a LCS (6000 tons) (which take from 16 months to 19 months) to Arleigh Burke Class destroyer (9,000 tons), which took (1 years 9 months for DDG-51 and subsequent in majority fall into 1 year and 8 months) Ticonderoga class (~10,000 tons) all class fluctuated between 1 year 5 months to 1 year 7 months.) Zumwalt Class (15,000 tons) took the longest, the lead ship took 3 years (Oct 2013-Oct 2016) from Launch to Commission,
HOWEVER, the US Navy officially accept the ship on May 2016 instead, and usually a ship only accepted after the ship is commissioned, which mean Zumwalt actual date is from Oct 2013 to May 2016, 2 years 7 months. America Class (45,000 tons) take 2 years 4 months from launch to commission. Nimitz class (100,100 tons) took average of 2 years 6 months with most at or under 2 years, with the exception of USS Nimitz (3 years) John C Stennis (2 years 1 months) Ronald Regean (2 years 4 months) and George H W Bush (2 years 6 months)
On the other hand, Chinese launch their ship does not run on a schedule, looking at Type 052D alone. The first one launched 1 year 7 months or 19 months, subsequently 2nd 052D at 2 years 8 months (32 months) 3rd 2 year 7 months (31 months) 4th at 2 years 4 months (28 months) and so on, it wasn't consistent
EVEN AT THE SAME CLASS AT THE SAME SHIP.
Gerald Ford Class was launched at Nov 2013. And to be precise, the Ford is currently under Acceptance Trial, which like Zumwalt Class, was done PRIOR to commission where as the other was done AFTER the ship is commissioned. When Gerald Ford Class commissioned, it will not need to go thru acceptance trial again, and will put straight into Operational Status.
The launch to commission is consistence across
ALL SHIP from the US Navy, I have no interest on how and what and how long Chinese Launch their ship, as long as they don't launch the ship at the same period or roughly the same period of time regardless of ship type, if they are, then they ARE DIFFERENT than the US Navy, so does RN, so does RAN, so does IN.
Stop thinking everything people say and do is revolving China, you call it the "Centre Country" does not really mean everything the world say or do evolve around China.
did you even understand what jhungary even said? they prefer to work on the ship whilst in the dry dock to ensure it's sea worthy, whilst most builders launch ships at a state where they need ~2 years more for them to be fitted out.
look at the new chinese carrier it will spend 1.5-2 years before it goes for sea trials
as for the type 071 that is true it only took 1 year but thats simply because they. did what the usa are doing having everything done whilst in the dock before launch. to clarify its the individual shipyard that build them this way in this case Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding. they did the same thing with the f22p for pakistan. launched in 2008 and commissioned in 2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22P_Zulfiquar-class_frigate
the chinese carrier along with some type 052'd are being built by the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company. they can pop them out quickly (launch) but it would take another 2 years to get it ready for sea trials.
lol.......I don't really know why they got pissed when I simply said the American did this, I did not say anything beside the actual launch time for Chinese Navy or British Royal Navy, as I don't know how you or the Chinese require to launch a ship, I am simply saying in the US, it was THE SAME across every type of ship because they have a standard rules to launch a ship, where they have to acquired some sort of seaworthiness.
Is it better than the Chinese? Maybe? I don't know, and I don't want to know,
he got pissed for the first 6 words of that paragraph, I guess he wasn't really interested in keep reading before he decided to go on the offensive?
Beside, what after commissioning a ship is also different between US and China, after commissioning a ship, US Navy usually put it on operational duty in 3 to 6 months (which is called accepted into service), while I don't know about the other ship type in China, but from Type 001A news, even if they do commissioning on 2020, they won't be fully operational before 2011 or maybe longer, and QE will be commissioned this year, but fully OC is not reach until 2020.
you can build 4 America Class ships for the price of a single Gerald R. Ford.
why not build just 7 Gerald R Fords, and field 16 America Class instead??
like I can see
4 Gerald R Fords for the Pacific
2 Gerald Ford Middle East
1 Gerald R Ford Europe can split duties with HMAS Elizabeth and Prince of Wales
8 America Class Pacific
3 America Class Europe
3 America Class Middle East
2 America Class South Atlantic
It is going to be 11 America Class with 10 Gerald Ford Class, well, at this moment at least.
America Class cannot sustain itself under their own Carrier Group, do bear in mind, America Class is a Amphibious Assault, it's job is to launch the Marine ashore, not to provide local sea/air interdiction. The US Navy planned to have 2 Flight 0, which lack well deck (hence is not really a amphibious assault ship) but with aircraft complement of 30 with 9 Flight 1 Which will have limited Aviation facilities (estimated from 15 to 20 planes), It will not be the same with 18 America Class (9 flight 0 and 9 Flight 1) which you can use 1 for each to complement each other, but then you need to maintain 18 America + 7 G R Ford instead of 11 America and 10 G R Ford. you will have 4 more ship you need to put into dock at the same service cycle, that mean you will need more dry dock and more money to service the increased number of ship.
Also, HMAS is Australian Ship, HMS is British Ship....
