US media: Jiangnan Shipyard to build China´s 1st Craft Carrier

[ChineseTiger1986]

US media: Jiangnan Shipyard to build China´s 1st Craft Carrier

According to an article by Andrei Chang published on the website of UPI, June 2, shipbuilding experts from Eastern Europe entered in No. 3 military dock of the Changxing Island Shipyard in Shanghai (new site of Jiangnan Shipyard) and took some photos, who let on to Kanwa Defense Review that China would start the construction of its own aircraft carrier this year and had completed its preparatory work.

According to one source, China´s first domestic aircraft carrier would be built, equipped and put into service from 2009 to 2015, and it had been internally named "Beijing". However, it is very likely that the building process may take much longer.



US media: Jiangnan Shipyard to build China´s 1st Craft Carrier - News - ChinaA2Z

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

I know this news is year ago. However, I want to state that Varyag would not be China's only AC in the future.

I presume that the AC build in Shanghai would be more advanced with catapult technology. Perhaps it could be a Supercarrier no less than 90,000 tons, by considering it is built in the world's biggest dockyard which is 580 meters long.

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[yjs14]

Varyag is not AC just a training ship

i hate ski-jump

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Varyag is not AC just a training ship

i hate ski-jump

Hopefully Shanghai can build China's first nuclear-powered indigenous Supercarrier. After all, it can share the technology with Dalian Shipyard so they both shipyard can build AC together.

 

[zagahaga]

no first one will be diesel powerred and will have around 40 000 or 60 000 tonnes... remember its chinas first AC ... but the later 4 more will be n powered maybe!!!!

 

[wali87]

Pakistanis are looking forward to seeing Chinese Navy operating Aircraft carriers.

 

[592257001]

For all those people wishing Varyag to be just a training AC, I will say it one more time: China is not rich enough to fit a billion dollar AC just so it can be used for training purpose. Varyag will NOT be fitted with any catapult system either, but the one in Shanghai WILL. The one in Shanghai is also conventional, not nuclear

 

[gogbot]

Hopefully Shanghai can build China's first nuclear-powered indigenous Supercarrier. After all, it can share the technology with Dalian Shipyard so they both shipyard can build AC together.

Will it also be escorted with rail gun equipped destroyers


Realism - it's a very underrated outlook

 

[592257001]

Will it also be escorted with rail gun equipped destroyers


Realism - it's a very underrated outlook

Do you think rail gun is very far-reaching tech for the PLA? PLA is not that far behind in rail gun technology compare to DARPA. The only differences is one is 90mm & 9MJ and the other XXmm & XMJ

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

There are rumours stated that China has already mastered the technology of the nuclear reactor for AC.

The one in Shanghai will be around 80,000 tons and 65,000 tons for the one in Dalian.

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[ChineseTiger1986]

China's military experts generally don't like the ski jump system as well. So hopefully the future carriers won't use this obsolete feature.

 

[dingyibvs]

There are rumours stated that China has already mastered the technology of the nuclear reactor for AC.

The one in Shanghai will be around 80,000 tons and 65,000 tons for the one in Dalian.

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Mastering nuclear reactor technology and integrating it into an AC are two different things. I wouldn't expect a nuclear powered one to be built any time soon.

Also, whoever said it above is right, China, nor anybody else, is rich enough to refit a carrier like the Varyag and make it a training vessel. NOBODY builds carriers just for training. Sure it'll probably be used for training at first, but it'll be operational if such a need arises.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Mastering nuclear reactor technology and integrating it into an AC are two different things. I wouldn't expect a nuclear powered one to be built any time soon.

Also, whoever said it above is right, China, nor anybody else, is rich enough to refit a carrier like the Varyag and make it a training vessel. NOBODY builds carriers just for training. Sure it'll probably be used for training at first, but it'll be operational if such a need arises.

Maybe we shouldn't rush to build an aircraft carrier since our future carrier battle groups are not used to deal with USN.

 

[dingyibvs]

I think the Chinese carriers will have other targets in mind. Fighting the USN in open seas is a hopeless endeavor for at the very, very least another 30 years or so. Chinese carriers will likely be aimed against countries like Japan, the Philippines, and India.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

As for now, PLA has ASBM to deal with US carriers and to protect her coast cities. In the future, there should have more advanced ASBM being built that could hit the US carriers anywhere around the world.