CV-18 Fujian - Type 003 Aircraft Carrier News & Discussions

[Deino]

Another one ...

 

[lcloo]

Probably it will look similar to the picture below when completed.


Semi-submersible barge (Singapore).

 

[waja2000]

MV Xue Long 2 is a Chinese icebreaking research vessel just enter drydock no.4 for 45 days maintenance, only leave drydock no.4 end of June. so wait August ...

 

[lcloo]

MV Xue Long 2 is a Chinese icebreaking research vessel just enter drydock no.4 for 45 days maintenance, only leave drydock no.4 end of June. so wait August ...

Xue Long 2's maintenance work will be done on various locations in the JNCX yards. It will probably spend 1-2 weeks in the dry dock #4 for below water-line hull works, and will be moved to other locations like inside the harbour basin and at the piers at the river bank.

The submersible deck barge will likely be launched within a few weeks (1-2 weeks?), and will be tested for a short period before commissioning. It will be operational in late May or June.

If this barge is built for transporting CV-XX/003 modules (a very likely case), we will see the aircraft carrier modules in dry dock by mid-Summer.

 

[waja2000]

Xue Long 2's maintenance work will be done on various locations in the JNCX yards. It will probably spend 1-2 weeks in the dry dock #4 for below water-line hull works, and will be moved to other locations like inside the harbour basin and at the piers at the river bank.

The submersible deck barge will likely be launched within a few weeks (1-2 weeks?), and will be tested for a short period before commissioning. It will be operational in late May or June.

If this barge is built for transporting CV-XX/003 modules (very likely case), we will see the aircraft carrier modules in dry dock by mid-Summer.

let wait and see..

 

[Deino]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1256916245485518849

What kind of ship or vessel is this? ... I was more focused on the carrier construction site itself that I missed that one on the pier.

 

[lcloo]

What kind of ship or vessel is this? ... I was more focused on the carrier construction site itself that I missed that one on the pier.

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It is a new large container ship belonged to CMA CGM shipping company.

 

[LKJ86]

It is a new large container ship belonged to CMA CGM shipping company.

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Via @屿屿夏 from Weibo

 

[Deino]

Would be a major news if true ... allegedly the transport barge has been launched today. Albeit no confirmation yet and the image is still the old one!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1262287069797179392

 

[Deino]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1262418301151477760

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

China needs 4 heavy carriers in service by 2025.

 

[Deino]

China needs 4 heavy carriers in service by 2025.

And well ... yet another completely stupid post! As stupid and impossible like Tu-160s in the IAF and the H-20 in the PAF.

Do you ever think before you post?

Given the current state of construction, the 003 carrier is about there where 002 was about 18 months before launch and that given that 002 was a much simpler and less complex project.

As such, if transfer of the modules will start only in September it will last at best until March 2022 for completion and after that the trial need to commence ...

anyway for operational ready super-carriers until 2025 is nothing but a fan-boy's wet-dream.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1262418301151477760

The modules will start to enter the dry dock number 4 by September. Most likely 3 main modules for the hull section.

It looks like the empty weight of the Type 003 could even reach 80,000 tons, very staggering for its enormous size.

 

[lcloo]

The unmanned semi-submerge transportation barge aka Non-self navigating unmanned launching ship.

 

[Deino]

And yet again an update of the Type 003 aircraft carrier's construction site at the Jiangnan Shipyard.

(Image via @horobeyo)