China will use steam catapults on its third aircraft carrier instead of electromagnetic launch but the fourth will mostly catchup to US technology
by noreply@blogger.com (brian wang) from NextBigFuture.com on (#2F3DN)
The South China Morning Post reports that China will not adopt highly advanced electromagnetic take-off technology on its second domestically built aircraft carrier but instead rely on a conventional steam system, naval experts say.
The next carrier (TYpe 002) after the Liaoning and the Type 001A carrier under construction in Dalian - would be equipped with at least three natural steam launch catapults, a source close to the navy told the South China Morning Post.
But it would be the first Chinese aircraft carrier to use this type of launch system.
"There are still some technical problems with China's magnetic launcher, so the Type 002 will still use steam catapults," the source said.
In 2013 the deputy chief-of-staff of the People's Liberation Army confirmed China was developing new aircraft carriers that would be much larger and more capable than the old Soviet design.
Little is known about 'Project 002'. The South China Morning Post says work began on the ship in 2015, in the Shanghai Jiangnan Changxingdao shipyard.
It will be much larger. It may even be nuclear powered.
Beijing may have gained access to steam catapult technology when it took possession of Australia's last aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. It was sold to be scrapped in 1985, but its World War II era technology would have still been of great interest to the PLA.
Only the currently-under-construction USS Ford carries shipboard electromagnetic catapults at this stage. And they're demonstrating an unwelcome tendency to toss aircraft into the sea.
The next Chinese carrier (001a) will likely look very similar to the current Liaoning. The carrier group will have updated destroyers and frigates that provide a more advanced layered defense and missile strike system. It will likely be accompanied by an arsenal of drones.
Certain weapons were excluded from the Type 001A platform to allow more carrier-based J-15 parking. The hanger was also expanded to allow the new carrier to carry between six and eight more J-15 fighter jets than the Liaoning.
"The control tower island on the deck was shrunk 10 per cent, which allow the deck to dock more helicopters and fixed-wing early-warning aircraft," he said, adding that four weapons sponsons, or projections, on the aft deck had Dismantled
S-band radars with four large antennae would be installed on the top of control tower, he said.
The system is China's most advanced and is capable of covering a 360-degree search field to scout dozens of targets in the air and at sea.
Four HQ-10 short-range air defence missiles systems with 24 tubes would also deployed on the new ship
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The next carrier (TYpe 002) after the Liaoning and the Type 001A carrier under construction in Dalian - would be equipped with at least three natural steam launch catapults, a source close to the navy told the South China Morning Post.
But it would be the first Chinese aircraft carrier to use this type of launch system.
"There are still some technical problems with China's magnetic launcher, so the Type 002 will still use steam catapults," the source said.
In 2013 the deputy chief-of-staff of the People's Liberation Army confirmed China was developing new aircraft carriers that would be much larger and more capable than the old Soviet design.
Little is known about 'Project 002'. The South China Morning Post says work began on the ship in 2015, in the Shanghai Jiangnan Changxingdao shipyard.
It will be much larger. It may even be nuclear powered.
Beijing may have gained access to steam catapult technology when it took possession of Australia's last aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne. It was sold to be scrapped in 1985, but its World War II era technology would have still been of great interest to the PLA.
Only the currently-under-construction USS Ford carries shipboard electromagnetic catapults at this stage. And they're demonstrating an unwelcome tendency to toss aircraft into the sea.
The next Chinese carrier (001a) will likely look very similar to the current Liaoning. The carrier group will have updated destroyers and frigates that provide a more advanced layered defense and missile strike system. It will likely be accompanied by an arsenal of drones.
Certain weapons were excluded from the Type 001A platform to allow more carrier-based J-15 parking. The hanger was also expanded to allow the new carrier to carry between six and eight more J-15 fighter jets than the Liaoning.
"The control tower island on the deck was shrunk 10 per cent, which allow the deck to dock more helicopters and fixed-wing early-warning aircraft," he said, adding that four weapons sponsons, or projections, on the aft deck had Dismantled
S-band radars with four large antennae would be installed on the top of control tower, he said.
The system is China's most advanced and is capable of covering a 360-degree search field to scout dozens of targets in the air and at sea.
Four HQ-10 short-range air defence missiles systems with 24 tubes would also deployed on the new ship
Read more