ChineseTiger1986
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Yes, but having 2 critical parts - installing the nuclear power engine on CV and EMALS for first time simultaneously are just too risky for the project and following maintenance.
Let's not be over-optimistic like Indian fanboys
Not kidding, the EMALS to integrate with the outdated steam boiler propulsion is perhaps a more difficult task for China to achieve than directly building a nuclear one.
This is the realism, and it has nothing to do with the over-optimism.
You have to take into account that the US procurement program is a complete joke and that it's completely corrupted by the defense contractors who juice it like a lemon, plus China has a bigger experience in making huge advancements at once successfully compared to the US. Also, encountering difficulties with the 003 might be a risk China is willing to take if it means the 004 will be built sooner, they might prefer to put the risk on 003 and use it as a technological test bed before refining the design for the 004.
Spot on, most likely the Type 003 is the first trial, therefore it takes a bit more time.
The following ships will be built faster with more experience, also being more refined.
EMALS have been tested as a separate system and China has been building nuclear propulsion for ages. There is no "great risk" here. Just people who don't understand engineering.
Yep, many people have regarded the nuclear propulsion as some kind of alien technology.
In fact, it is not as fancy as many people tend to believe.
Oh please Can you please stop acting
China has built how many carriers? So far 1
US has built how many over 80 and over a dozen nuclear powered ones
You got more experience with one than someone who has built over dozen or 80? No definitely no
But China doesn't have to build every type of the carriers that the US had built in the past, right?
China always builds something that is suitable to its need, it is not about a pissing contest.
The conventional carriers have too much replenishment pressure compared to the nuclear ones, especially when your oversea military bases are very few in number.