Fujian Type 003: China's Incredible First Aircraft Carrier

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[wintersl]

The era of overcapacity for electromagnetic catapults has officially arrived. The Type 076 amphibious assault ship is officially equipped with an electromagnetic catapult and was launched yesterday.

[garethgriffith]

Just because the Gerald Ford is nuclear powered doesn’t mean that she doesn’t need regular replenishment for, food, fuel for its jets, spare parts etc. The biggest advantage is that she can sustain a relative high cruising speed, which however is limited by the slowest ship in its battlegroup.

[Torven]

Yes, China lacks experience being an aggressive empire, and hasn't fought a war in over 40 years. That's something to be proud of, not ashamed of.

[RealSerie]

Regardless of what China does, we keep dismissing them or minimizing their technological advances. This is the absolute worst mistake we can make.

[stc]

Imagine releasing this video, China release a new carrier and 2 6th gen fighters in hours 😂

[DragonYang]

Many commentors are quick to compare Chinese aircraft carrier with American ones. But, this is really beside the point because China does not strategize to fight any war far away from China. The real important message is how China upgrades their military capabilities from ground up with much SMALLER budget and much SHORTER time, with much BIGGER manufacturing capacity. Their trajectory of superiority (not dominance) makes the statement.

[xeenslayer]

I love how all the Western xenophobes and jingoists are rushing in to dismiss Chinese progress. =) While most of you make valid points, this complacency is exactly what the Chinese need and love.

[jorgearmas]

Is there no mention of the battle group? A carrier without an effective battle group is extremely vulnerable regardless of how impressive it is.

[tonbopro]

btw historically TW belonged to Fujian province before Japan annexed it

[barrywong]

It’s absurd for Americans to be boasting about its fighting experience. That is nothing to be proud of. In fact, you should be ashamed of your country’s belligerence and having levied untold amount of killing and destruction around the globe.

If the US is serious about being a true leader, don’t lead in starting and fighting wars. Instead lead in conflict resolution peacefully, trade, development, cooperation, collaboration, helping other countries to improve, building bridges not walls and address challenges facing humanity. Which is exactly what China is doing, rather successfully.

[Strangelove]

The US does not necessarily have more combat experience than China. Committing war crimes across the Mid East for 3 decades is not combat experience.

[larsnystrom]

The Chinese are very good at building nuclear power systems. No doubt they could have done that in their carriers by now, if they wanted.
And no doubt the will do so in a future generation of ships.
I'm waiting for their first ship, or submarine, with a Thorium Molten Salt reactors. Rest assured that they have a well thought out plan for this.

[Socratic]

I would personally say it's not comparable between the Fujian and the R. Ford because China most likely wants the 003 to stay in the South China Sea along with the Liaoning, the Shandong, and the 004 which is most likely is also conventional engines since from what I heard it's the 003's sister ship. The nuclear carriers in the future will be used to travel further as far as Guam according to what I heard. When war breaks out and the nuclear carriers fighting on the frontlines, the 4 conventional engine carriers will most likely stay behind in the SCS to protect the coast because you can't leave yourself completely vulnerable if you send all of your armies to fight without any protection.

[jackvos]

Last time I was this early people thought Ice would make a good aircraft carrier.

[dimsimbogan.]

The last major carrier battle was fought at the Battle of Midway. Japan lost 4 carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu to USA's 1 carrier USS Yorktown. Nobody had carrier battle experience ever since, unless if you count carrier "gunboat diplomacy" as such. All battles were fought using tactics and strategies from the last war, Midway was 82 years ago. That's how the British and French lost to the Wehrmacht's Biltzkrieg tactics, because they thought they could stop the Germans by digging trenches

[Edz]

There is even a debate in China whether they needed a nuclear power carrier. But I bet China will build one. We should find out in a year or two.

[chriskola]

The impressive/troubling thing is that they can probably knock out another 20 of them in the time it would take other countries to create two.

[WhyInnovate]

It will take another 15 -20 years of work to get this on par with a USA carrier, and about that much time to train the sailors. But you have to start somewhere and this is a good start

[tonysu]

Welk, the Fujian isn't China's furst domestically built carruer. But is the first indigenously designed carrier

The Shanding was the first 100% domestically built carrier based on a Russian design and tweaked

[jbl]

Good coverage, more on China please. The link on Fujiam being the closes province to China was good insight.