![]() ![]() ![]() It is clearly a large, catapult-equipped design, unlike the PLAN Liaoning and Shandong that rely on a ski-ramp to help get heavily-laden aircraft into the air.Īnd its small control-tower island does not incorporate a large exhaust such as that seen on the PLAN Fujian to dispel noxious fumes from a diesel engine. The Type 004 concept images, first identified by East Pendulum, show a vastly different ship. And while it appears to feature modern electromagnetic catapults and arresting wires for its aircraft, it has conventional diesel-powered engines. The much improved and enlarged PLAN Fujian is undergoing its final fit-out at the Jiangnan shipyard.īut this Type 003 design is slightly smaller than the USS Ford and its older USS Nimitz class counterparts. Beijing has only its two training carriers (PLAN Liaoning and Shandong) operational. ![]() The United States has 11, of which four are ready for use at any one time. ![]() Pentagon analysts expect the Chinese Navy to operate six aircraft carriers by 2040. US Navy's aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (centre), South Korean Navy's destroyer Yulgok Yi (right) and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's Umigiri (left) sail in formation during a joint naval exercise in international waters off South Korea. It’s a possible design for the future Type 004 aircraft carrier.Īnd it’s not the first time the shipyard has revealed a new project this way. What makes these more interesting than the usual “handshaking suits” is what’s on display in the background. It appears their next-generation nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is no exception.Ĭorporate images from the state-owned Jiangnan Changxing Shipyard in Shanghai are circulating on China’s internal social media platforms. But the promotional banners displayed by Chinese defence contractors have a history of revealing new projects. Jiangnan Changxing shipyard, which is building China’s first conventionally-powered CATOBAR aircraft carrier, releases an illustration of what it could be the Navy’s next nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Chinese. ![]()
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