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China Launches 'Fujian,' its Most Advanced Aircraft Carrier
China launches 'Fujian,' its most advanced aircraft carrier:
China launched its largest and most advanced aircraft carrier on Friday at a shipyard in Shanghai, in what state media called a "short but festive ceremony."
The 80,000-ton Fujian, named for the southern coastal province opposite Taiwan, is the first of China's three carriers to be fully designed and built domestically. Unlike China's Liaoning and Shandong carriers, which use ski-jump ramps, Fujian will launch planes using electromagnetic catapults, the technology used on current U.S. carriers.
"Although it will be years before the [carrier] enters military service and achieves initial operating capability, its launch will be a seminal moment in China's ongoing modernization efforts and a symbol of the country's growing military might," said analysts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington, in an article earlier this month.
China Launches Third Aircraft Carrier: State Media - Times of India
China launches third aircraft carrier: State media - Times of India:
[...] However, it will take years before it reaches operational capacity, as the Ministry of Defence has not announced a date for entry into service. "Sailing and mooring tests will be carried out as planned after the ship is launched," CCTV reported. China has two other aircraft carriers in service. The Liaoning was commissioned in 2012, and the Shandong entering service in 2019.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @06:17PM (3 children)
methinks it's really polite of 'em chinese people to not put a nuke reactor on that thing.
it kindda sayz: "look, guys, we can do big and nasty things too but the legs are short and if you're far away and leave us alone, we won't be seeing you anytime soon".
unlike other countries, that need to be all over the place, sometimes even uninvited ...
how "far" is it from electro-launch of jet-engine with wings and soft-squishy filling to a railgun ... to orbit?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @06:28PM (1 child)
ah, also on the topic of amazing things:
it's amazing they can transplant a whole chip industry from taiwan to 'murika in a couple of years but consider it impossible to get native, vertical photovoltaics manufacturing off the ground.
"If there's a will, there can also be "no way"..." *shrug*
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 18 2022, @07:55PM
wow, that's nothing!
just imagine goin' thru the trouble of building reusable rockets so you can beam down advertisements from orbit!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by tangomargarine on Sunday June 19 2022, @07:43AM
Except for the part where they named it after the other side of the straight from Taiwan. They might as well have called it "We're Coming For You Taiwan" for all the subtlety that has.
Not that modern China has really ever been known for its subtlety...
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"