Chinese Aircraft Carriers - Liaoning, Shandong, Fujian and the future

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[Hendarto]

Thanks, I know you are here I am glad you made this video answering those nabob ridiculous questions about Chinese capability to supply or man the carrier battle group. Then comparing 100 years of West experience operating WW II carriers. Come on man it is irrelevant. China has almost a decade of carrier Battle group experience under her belt. They regularly train in the West Pacific beyond China's coastline. Rigorous pilot training program etc

 

[Yommie]

It may not be nuclear but the radars are second to none.

 

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[Deino]

She just came back home

 

[Deino]

hi-res official photos for the first sea trial of Fujian

 

[Hendarto]

glad she completed the power test successfully and was not cut short of the test. Here is a video of Fujian undergoing test

 

[guangdongt]

glad she completed the power test successfully and was not cut short of the test. Here is a video of Fujian undergoing test

It navigates elegantly, accompanied by gentle music, and the sea is beautiful

 

[Hendarto]

The next test will be the rough weather test

 

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[nang2]

glad she completed the power test successfully and was not cut short of the test. Here is a video of Fujian undergoing test

Slick!

 

[Hendarto]

Fujian in all her glory and majesty a 7 minute of high definition video

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[Hendarto]

No major issue detected smooth sailing according to SCMP

Smooth sailing for China’s Fujian carrier as it finishes first sea trial

The country’s most advanced aircraft carrier achieves ‘expected results’ in eight-day test of its power and electrical systems, Xinhua reports.

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Smooth sailing for China’s Fujian aircraft carrier as it finishes first sea trial​

• The country’s most advanced aircraft carrier achieves ‘expected results’ in eight-day test of its power and electrical systems, Xinhua reports
• Testing of the vessel’s cutting-edge electromagnetic catapult system is not likely to happen until its third to fifth trial, retired PLA colonel says

Zhao Ziwen
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Published: 8:31pm, 8 May 2024

China’s third and most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, finished a smooth eight-day maiden sea trial and returned to Shanghai’s Jiangnan shipyard on Wednesday, according to official news agency Xinhua.
The aircraft carrier completed tests of its power and electrical systems and achieved “the expected results” during its first trial, the news agency said.

There were no tests directly related to the carrier’s cutting-edge electromagnetic catapult system carried out during the trial.

The Fujian, launched in June 2022, is China’s first aircraft carrier equipped with electromagnetic catapults, which will enable the vessel to launch aircraft more frequently.

The vessel’s first sea trial was longer than those of its predecessors, the Liaoning and the Shandong aircraft carriers. The Liaoning took five days and the Shandong took six days to complete their maiden exercises.

A retired PLA colonel says he expects the Fujian to complete a total of eight or nine trials over the course of a year. Photo: Xinhua
“The length of the first trial is normal, and it shows that no major issues came up,” said Yue Gang, a retired People’s Liberation Army colonel, adding that “if a major problem arose, the military would likely have made the carrier return earlier than scheduled”.

Describing the power system as the “heart” of the aircraft carrier, Yue said checking power and electricity were in line with the typical trial process.
“If the power system is substandard and the pitfalls are not addressed, a later trial may be affected, or the test results might not be accurate,” he said.

China’s other commissioned aircraft carriers, the Liaoning and the Shandong, completed 10 and nine trials respectively over the course of a year before they were put into service.

The retired PLA colonel said Fujian’s testing process would be similar, while its electromagnetic launch catapults – a feature that has received much international attention – would be tested during the middle of the process, probably the third to the fifth trial.
He added that the carrier would complete a total of eight or nine trials over a year.

China airs footage of Fujian aircraft carrier featuring advanced catapult launch system
Yue explained that successful launching of the catapults demanded working power generation, energy storage, electromagnetic systems, and command systems, so tests of most of the carrier’s core operational systems had to be completed first.

The Fujian is China’s third aircraft carrier and the first built to a domestic design. The PLA aims to have six carriers in total by 2035, which would make it the world’s second-biggest blue-water navy after the US.
Observers of China’s military and shipbuilding industry have speculated about whether the PLA will use nuclear power for its fourth carrier, but Beijing has not outlined its plans

Yue said that since China had achieved electromagnetic catapult launch capability, the next carrier was likely to make progress on nuclear power – an advancement he described as a “bigger step” than the catapult system.
The USS Gerald R. Ford – the world’s only other aircraft carrier with an electromagnetic catapult system – was commissioned in 2017 but did not depart on its first deployment until 2022.

 

[Liquidator]

Hopefully soon we will see Chinese carrier strike groups in and around Europe, Britain and the Americas conducting freedom of navigation exercises. I predict within 10 years.

It is time for white settler colonialists to go to bed once and for all. The civilised global south and far east must unite.