A photograph has emerged on Chinese online forums showing that China's land-based aircraft carrier mock-up in Wuhan, Hubei Province, is undergoing modifications.
These are likely to reflect changes between China's first indigenous aircraft carrier, the Type 001A, which is currently being built at Dalian shipyard and the next one to be constructed, which is commonly referred to as the Type 002.
Most significantly the ski-jump section has been removed from the mock-up, reinforcing expectations that China's third carrier will be equipped with catapults.
Construction of China's third carrier is expected to take place at the Jiangnan Changxingdao shipyard near Shanghai. So far there has been no official confirmation of the programme nor visible evidence of the construction, but there has been considerable speculation that production of the initial modules is already in progress
No longer >a fucking ramp Welcome to the cool club, chinks
Wyatt Allen
BRITS BTFO
Catapult > Ramp
Nathan Stewart
hahaha quoting news dot com.au
you retarded faggot
Adam Evans
>yellow journalism to incite anger at the only country in Asia which can stop American neoliberal hegemony in Asia Oy vey, all non-liberal democracies must be destroyed, or it'll be another Korean War! I've never understood how Sup Forums can be so pro Russia but loathe Russia's only major ally. Russia depends on China and vice versa. These two countries are the only countries standing in the way of NATO world domination.
Robert Hall
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“We should go in and give them a bloody nose like Deng Xiaoping did to Vietnam in 1979,” the source said, referring to China’s brief invasion of Vietnam to punish Hanoi for forcing Beijing’s ally the Khmer Rouge from power in Cambodia."
Ah Hah hah hah hah!
China beating Vietnam!
China, you lost to Vietnam when you tried to punish it!
The Vietnamese had just fought a prolonged war with America. They were fully prepared to handle you.
Jonathan Nguyen
>a back country hick not knowing what a catapult on an aircraft carrier does
Go educate yourself before you wreck yourself
Jeremiah Butler
That was 79, China was really poor and in bad shape in general back then. Vietnam no longer has any VC-type guerillas and China's PLA has had massive upgrades since then.
Charles Torres
China and Russia have a very long love/hate type disfunctional relationship thing going. Just because they have mutual interests today doesn't exactly make them allies.
Liam Harris
HAH, Yeah, right.
Isaac Collins
Point is, China claiming it beat Vietnam is revisionist history.
Jonathan Campbell
The Chinese misrepresenting something? That's crazy. You crazy.
Colton Foster
They're relations right now are probably friendlier than ever before. Not as many conflicts of interest as even the Stalin days. The point is that in international disputes, they almost always stand united, like with Syria. China and Russia have huge, strategic trade relations. When one gets challenged, the other will be on his side. They gave them a bloody nose, doesn't mean steamrolled.
Isaac Gonzalez
>a Jap celebrating a Chinese accomplishment
wait wat
Kevin Fisher
Harro proxysan. It's the wumao hard at work.
Jason Reed
when rechristened, it should be named after famous Japanese cities
Yup, they shill pretty hard some places and actually predate the CTR by several years. Media control in China is taken very very seriously.
Ethan Gomez
Is Japan buying F-35s?
Bentley Myers
>my face when we have operational railguns
Levi Hall
>america is now using electro magnetic super catapults >the chinese are just now figuring out how steam works 70 years after the Brits and Americans started using catapults If there was any doubt anglos are naval master race here's the evidence.
Jaxson Williams
Whats the big deal with laughing at the ramps?
James Walker
>ramp It's poor man's solution to air craft carriers.
Gavin Cox
Yes but not for those. They're buying A models.
John Roberts
Catapults can be used to launch drones like the rq7.
Justin Kelly
It's poorfag as fuck and it means your F-35B will be able to carry less shit and you won't be able to fly fixed wing AEWC aircraft which is doubly poorfag.
Jaxson Johnson
Isn't this just a way to launch the aircraft? Whats the difference?
Joseph Adams
I'm guessing that catapults can launch bigger planes than a mere ramp.
James Ramirez
Catapults can launch both much larger planes and fighters with much larger payloads.
US carrier can launch massive planes for instance.
Asher Reed
The newest gen US carriers are crazy.
Like says, not only do they have railguns, the catapults are themselves railguns. The Chinese stuff is like vacuum tube tier.
Ayden Ward
Why would China need aircraft carriers? Are they going to join the shitskin bombing party?
Jacob Torres
Overcompensating for something perhaps.
Isaiah Lewis
>be able to fly fixed wing AEWC aircraft Isn't that what all our Islands dotted over the globe allows?
>means your F-35B will be able to carry less shit
Aren't they VTOL?
Brandon Peterson
Every pound of fuel is one less pound of munitions. Launching from a catapult frees up a lot of weight and/or extends operational range.
Matthew Lewis
I would argue that the primary purpose of aircraft carriers is to bait other countries into sinking them, so the national outrage can be used to justify total war. That is the purpose of the US carrier fleet.
Jose Butler
They are planning for something
Levi Long
Why is a Jap being so cheerful about China getting the means to project power?
Thomas Thompson
You're jumping the gun I was talking 'bout ramps.
User idea "V Cunt Jet"
David Roberts
I detect patronizing sarcasm.
Christopher Sullivan
Fair enough, I'm just saying even a plane with vtol capability benefits from a catapult. Ramps are archaic.
Tyler Rivera
They claim that they own everything in the South/east China sea. They have loads of territorial disputes with all neighbouring countries. They build artificial islands because they don't have the naval power yet to back their claims. That's going to change in a few decades time when they have several aircraft carrier groups.
Levi Cooper
>ID wew lad
Matthew Lewis
The fact we still use Phantoms don't help. Also our new "helicopter" carrier has only five fucking spots on the deck for heli's. And only carries 28 helicopters. Fucking BS, self defense force my ass, the Nork Gooks are launching missiles at us and we're the military laughing stock of Asia.
Lucas Phillips
I need to see a video of the thing in action my head can't get past the image of a medieval style catapults lobbing planes and hoping that the jet engines can get it flying before it hits the drink.
Levi Brooks
>And only carries 28 helicopters.
7 helicopters not 28s. Heli carrier is good.
Gabriel Lewis
its as long as an Arizona class.... I don't think you need to worry about its "helicopter" capacity.
Jaxon Hughes
lmao catapults? they're going to throw rocks at enemy ships?
Jacob Cruz
Nimitz rather... muh bad.
Ayden Bennett
>Isn't that what all our Islands dotted over the globe allows? No, it doesn't. You're using shitty helicopters and balloons.
Seriously.
Ryan Scott
India won't buy the Russian carrier.
India will likely get EMALS from the US and build it using their own nuclear reactor based on their nuclear sub.
Vertical Carrier Unmanned Naval Tactical Jets.... can Sup Forums stop leaking our triple top secret ultra jet black classified programs???
Henry Fisher
It's a cable embedded in the flight deck. There's tons of videos, im just lazy and on my mobile. Your version is more entertaining anyway ("load the cow into the catapult").
Jonathan Adams
What's that?
Jaxon Johnson
Sorry, meant for
Zachary Gray
I want Japan to be able to have a proper military again.
Come on murka I think they've learned their lesson by now
Xavier Peterson
This pretty much. It's to extend their power locally. Their navy ships are already sinking fishing boats that cross territorial lines that only China acknowledge. I think it's based on some document they drew up after ww2
As you can see on the image, their claim reaches far into other countries backyards.
They basically want the oil and fishing rights that would normally fall to their neighbor countries according to international law.
Carson Garcia
I see you're building them here in Australia too.
Elijah Cooper
I hate the >muh constitution WE'RE THE LAUGHING STOCK MILITARY IN THE PACIFIC CMON ABE, PLEASE PASS IT ALREADY
Adrian Ross
Save your nation by your own. Australia bets both of China and America.
be one's own fault have brought it. Australia should do that
Jonathan Morgan
It would be a good way to boost your economy and it'll give young people a job that doesn't involve sitting in an office for the next 60 years
Jayden Garcia
If it can't launch diseased carcasses its not a catapult!
I kinda meant for the larger fixed wings, as for radar optics we have pic related.
Don't get me wrong though our military is pretty shit as we rely to heavily on trident.
Elijah Reed
>trident
that shit from the 70s?
Nicholas Brooks
Indian navy reporting
Lucas Fisher
...
Jayden Peterson
DELET THIS
Luke Richardson
There's a Chinese at my work
First thing I'm doing if we go to war with China is offering her some Starbucks, then when she lets her guard down
Stab her in the neck
Fuck >muh communist party >muh wall >muh Dragons >muh fireworks >muh jade everything
Xavier Watson
Hillary will congratulate china.
Jose Roberts
The first Trident armed patrol took play in 1996, and their MIRVs.....
Its like laughing at some sword wielding jihadi whilst he charges at you because "that shits from the middle ages"!
They still work.
Aaron Adams
>The Chinese are dumb as fuck
Yeah, claiming the SC Sea for themselves, stealing all your burger tech, making the fastest supercomputer and taking the lead in genetic modification without giving a single fuck about (((ethics))) is most definitely the traits of a nation of dumb fucks.
A top secret bomber that operates on an exotic propulsion technology
Gabriel Perry
Oh shit, I've finally figured out why midgets walk like they're in a hurry, and it's surprisingly simple: they are in a hurry! To cover the same ground with their tiny feet they have to move them very quickly so if they want to move with normal human walking speed they have to almost run. This midget could have leisurely walked to the stage at his normal (slow) pace, but to the audience which is used to normal speed this would look like the fucking gnome was taking his sweet time.
To think that poor stubs have to scamper like this all because of our subconscious notion of normal walking speed, oh horror.
Carson Perez
lel
Xavier Allen
Austrian Navy reporting in!
Christian Evans
Doesn't work. Catapult would fling plane into bottom of ramp, plane would crumple.
Sebastian Ross
you got your first carrier, that is a complete gamechanger, and it is made of 3000 folden nippon steel! wht with your teleport behind you technology, and lolis, you are now a mighty force, hokage
Jason King
>>If it can't launch diseased carcasses its not a catapult! funny name for yanks
Dominic Myers
I can't wait to see Japan re-militarize
I bet you'll have 100+ nukes built within 1 year with all that plutonium sitting around
Brody Rivera
what a waste of a starcucks
Matthew Bennett
make the ctatpult go up the ramp, sheeesh, you gais
Blake Cox
Photoshop look at the yellow bridge crane
Robert Bennett
Don't forget the diesel. At least they can bargain with fishers for fuel when they run out in the middle of the sith China Sea.
Carter Mitchell
>2016
>Diesel powered carrier
what?
How will they power their rail guns?
oh wait
Adrian White
Damn! A fierce one, you are.
Adrian Baker
Touché.
Nathan Jones
>as for radar optics we have pic related. No you don't AEWC are for battlespace management of air power, the type 40s are for fleet defense and missile guidance. They're for completely different purposes.
The role that the US and France us AEWCs for you are using shitty helicopters and balloons
