China-made new aircraft carrier detailed exposure: combat power far more than the U.S. military Nimitz class

Shipbuilding plan

Liaoning ship enter service really made people excited about a recent F-15 success in Liaoning landing ship once again let the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation are proud that the attention of the majority of users are firmly locked into the 16 ship. The excitement, maybe someone will want to the Liaoning ship pretty powerful thing, coupled with the heavy-duty carrier aircraft F-15 is not bad either. Simply, first made a few the Liaoning ship the same type of ship used to save the surrounding powers camouflage from, prompting us no peace. In fact, my friends need not worry. China's aircraft carrier ambitions ambitious, Liaoning ships is just a prelude to our great shipbuilding plans, the real main aircraft carrier will be followed in the next twenty years.

I speculate that, in 2011, China has 002 (001 aircraft carrier Press Liaoning ship called speculated that the construction work of the type 002) aircraft carriers should be called in Changxing Island Jiangnan Shipyard began. 002-type aircraft carrier full load displacement of 78,000 tons, the conventionally powered, all-pass deck, equipped with three electromagnetic catapults, will build two. First ship, that the 17-ship (by Liaoning ship hull number row down), will be launched at the end of 2013, 2014, outfitting, sea trials in 2015, put into service in 2016 or 2017. 18 ship in the 17-ship into the water vacate the dock and start building, that the start of construction in 2014, into the water by the end of 2016, 2017, outfitting, the beginning of the 2018 sea trials, put into service in 2019 or 2020. Then China will enter the great 2020s.

The reason why its great because our total economy in the 1920s will be the largest in the world, the goal of a well-off society will be fully completed, the space station has been established, Communist China will enter the sixth generation of the collective leadership ruling ... In short, the economy, politics, science and technology, people's livelihood will rise. , In order to make the road to rejuvenation of the Chinese nation can continue to go on in order to defend the achievements of our modernization, our military forces, especially the combat capability of the distant sea is bound to strengthen the domestic nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will be born in this decade. In fact, in accordance with the law of the development of nuclear power systems speculated that China now has started to develop aircraft carriers with nuclear reactors. Because, as reactors of the ship power system, the first land-based analog test run for a long time, to ensure that the ship will be fitted with foolproof, manufacturing and processing test run likely to be a decade or so. Solve technical problems, economic strength, if the smooth realization of the target of the fifth generation of the collective leadership of 2020, the domestic nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, that 003 aircraft carrier program will start in 2021. Expected to be first made two of the same type of ship, the ship is basically the same hull with 17, 18, eight oil-fired boilers replaced by two nuclear reactors (described below), the abolition of the flue, narrow ship island.

So optimistic estimates, 19 ship of 003 first ship was built in 2021., Into the water by the end of 2023, and in 2024 began outfitting, began sea trials in 2025, put into service in 2026 or 2027. 003 ship 20 ship start building in 2024 and into the water by the end of 2026, 2027 outfitting and sea trials in 2028 and enter service in 2029 or 2030. Looking down, is estimated to be brick, but can not help but do want to say a few words (hehe). Experienced the climax of 20 years to build the ships, five aircraft carriers should be enough, and our people's livelihood has not yet reached the level of developed countries, military spending still temperance. Recycling you have and so when the the Liaoning ship honorably discharged, that is, after 2040. When the strength of our technology has been close to the United States, the total economy is worthy of the boss, the new carrier may reach 10 million tons, and perhaps still is the boat now, but will install a new reactor, using all-electric propulsion, the installation of high-energy weapons ....... This beautiful vision of how exciting, we were able to witness the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, is how happy ah!

Second, the performance parameters, the shape and structure of

Accidentally nagging so much, finally began on the map. First to a family portrait, and at the same time invited Comrade Ulyanovsk, the Nimitz Mr. and Mr. Ford cameo.

I use a form to show our 16 ships, 17 destroyers, 19 three-ship aircraft carrier performance parameters, while the world's leading large, heavy aircraft carrier performance parameters of comparison are listed to enable the reader to the performance of China's aircraft carrier The level of intuitive understanding. Individual data in the table not found, so I estimated values ​​for loss, if biased, Readers are encouraged to forgive, and please correct me and explore.

Whole contour, 17 ship similar to Ulyanovsk number, but the take-off zone for the flush deck ship island stealth treatment. Specific detail features are as follows:

1 Flush Deck: the takeoff District deck flat deck can increase the amount of carrier aircraft carrier aircraft scheduling flexibility. The foredeck can save a takeoff channel park 9 fighter. If only retain the bevel deck takeoff channel foredeck becomes all parking areas, can park 20 fighter. Slip jump deck 60 meters long, 14 degree bend segment, and the two take-off runways tilted toward the center line to the bow intersects drastic suppression of such parking areas. Reserved a takeoff channel case, can stop up to 5 fighter. , Slip jump deck before take-off zone change for parking areas will not have to take off the channels available, will be at a disadvantage in wartime.

Cranes: 17-ship in front of the flat deck similar to the American aircraft carrier, of course, there is no fixed cranes of the side of the Russian aircraft carrier, which can expand the the foredeck stop area, can stop two fighter. In addition, the domestic carrier with mobile cranes, usually parked in the rear of the ship island before the 2nd lift equipment parking area.

The catapult: chose three catapult the program, rather than similar four American aircraft carrier, because the the 17 ship deck area Binimizi level small, and carrier-based fighter F-15 this large size heavy-duty machines, catapults too much, but makes the carrier aircraft transporting efficiency decreased; Second, because the catapult energy consumption is larger, choose four inevitable higher power requirements of the the carrier power source (boiler or reactor) to increase the difficulty of design; three because no the portside edge 4 catapult (3 catapult placed in the recovery of the region), you can make room on the port side four parking bays, so that is conducive to the organization of multi-wave, a large fleet of sea attack . U.S. aircraft carrier in the port side and before the take-off area set two catapults in order to ensure that the channel has two takeoff backup catapult failure guaranteed two takeoff channel available, so no matter what catapults. Portside a catapult Although there is no backup, but our electromagnetic catapult catapult, compared with the traditional steam catapults higher reliability, less wear and longer life, easier maintenance, 3 catapult guarantee the two the takeoff channel is available, the basic no difficulty. Speaking of electromagnetic catapult is necessary to illustrate its power consumption, which is a lot of friends there are misunderstanding. We usually that the electromagnetic catapult energy consumption big, conventionally powered cope not only nuclear power because as it is not true. Because the electromagnetic catapult instantaneous release of the huge energy derived from the energy storage device, not directly from the electric energy generator acquired, while the energy storage device as long as tens of seconds within the energy filled and the energy release within seconds can.

In the United States, the Russian aircraft carrier comparative data charts

(A) 17-ship (domestic first ship conventionally powered aircraft carrier)

Beveled deck: 17 ship beveled deck landing runway 24 m wide (two white lines within the region), than the F-15 wingspan (about 14 meters) and 10 meters wide, and that each side leaving a margin of five meters, to ensure machines and personnel carrier parked outside the runway safety. 5 m white runway edge, there is a wide orange dotted line, two orange wide dotted line distance is 34 meters, will be equipped with the same size of the E-2C carrier-based than the E-2C early warning aircraft (China the AWACS) wingspan (24.5 m) and 9.5 m wide. Such carrier aircraft parked in the parking areas delineated by the orange line, without regard to let out early warning aircraft landing runway (later "carrier aircraft configuration section is press the orange line arrangements shutdown program).

Of course, the actual combat AWACS took off to return to six hours, this period, taking off and landing in organizing large fleet, in order to facilitate the tone carrying machine, you can extend the parking areas to the white line. 17 ship beveled deck is 229 meters long, Biwu Li, Ulyanovsk, 6 meters long, this was mainly due to the take-off area in order to accommodate two ejection channel needs to be widened on the basis of the Ukrainian ship foredeck widened to. front-end with beveled deck natural transition, the need to move forward on the basis of the Ukrainian ship, extended beveled deck. The Ukrainian ship before the deck does not need too wide (two roll line intersects last), so we set the roots of the first deck near Artillery, thus crowding out the length of the bevel deck.

Thus, all-projectile mode to increase the usable area of ​​the deck is very useful. The 17 ship landing zone angle is 8 degrees, 30 minutes, slightly larger than the the Liaoning ship 7 degrees, but significantly less than the Kitty Hawk 11 degrees 20 minutes, slightly less than the Nimitz-class 9 degrees 30 minutes. Bevel the smaller, the smaller the impact of carrier aircraft landing lateral wind, and better security. Nimitz class is to take this into account, was reduced on the basis of the Kitty Hawk oblique angle to 9 degrees, 30 minutes.

Course, Kitty Hawk, Nimitz-class figure of 80,000 tons 80 carrier aircraft comparable to 100,000 tons, also benefited from such a large bevel design, and the benefits of such a large bevel is the starboard edge The increased space between the landing runway, you can head to head with two rows of parked carrier aircraft (medium Hornet). While after 17 ship decreases bevel, ship island and landing runway only to stop a row set (heavy-duty F-15), but the the aft starboard of space rather than the Kitty Hawk, can stop 4 carrier aircraft (but parked behind, after all, better to stop the front conducive dispatched).

Called gains will be lost, unless the Nimitz as increase the length and tonnage, to achieve the purpose of safety and capacity of both, but also involves the power demand increases. Soviet designer of wisdom, we can design it based on a 17-ship will walk many detours, so the performance of the target ship building capacity to achieve the best balance we can see from the the Ukrainian ship bevel deck design.

5. Helicopter landing point: 17 ship configuration 12 helicopters, and future Ford-class aircraft carrier, the configuration is no longer fixed-wing anti-submarine aircraft (Viking S-3B has retired), is also the configuration of the 12 anti-submarine helicopters. Visible from the Ford-class aircraft carrier pictures helicopter landing position 3, then 17 ship set of three helicopter landing point is reasonable in number. Contrast China's Liaoning ship four landing points, you can determine the 17-ship this with a fixed-wing AWACS aircraft carrier, does not need too many helicopters dispatched three landing point enough. Then, taking into account the angle 17 ship deck shape, size, position of the 3rd catapult rear lift position, hangar layout, and other factors, the front portion of the beveled deck No. 3, the left side of the catapult may be provided two landing point (spacing 37 m) in the aft landing runway center line, before the first block cable, you can set a landing point.

6 ammunition Lifts: 17 ship on the port side there is a parking areas can accommodate four fighter, so set in place between the parking areas and landing lights of an ammunition lifts. This lifts the position is different from the place of the United States, the Russian aircraft carrier. Another 3 ammunition lifts, respectively provided in aft starboard parking areas, close to the front of the ship island (the ship island protrusive platform cover, not visible in Figure), before flight deck between two catapult.

7. Aircraft lifts: the location of the three aircraft lifts are the same as with the Ukrainian ship, the main advantages of this layout is that Lift 2 lifts (portside) (ship island) and the 3rd respectively facing fourth Road and a blocked With just a little turn on the RCC to block the cable out of the lift cable, so the carrier aircraft, both to protect the blocking cable, and easy transporting. The in Liaoning ship the 2nd lift to face three blocked cable Kitty Hawk and Nimitz-class ship island lift face-to-face for the first two block cable all aircraft transporting trouble.

Defense weapons: the basis of the Ukrainian ship approached the deck flat deck and widening instead, so the the foredeck roots can not set the close-in weapons platform, both platforms to be moved forward to the foredeck on both sides of central side, the shape of two ears. Two unearthed the "ears" of the hull, only one side is connected to the hull, limited load-bearing, so each only configure a 1130 near Artillery and a red flag with a 18-mounted 10 short-range anti-aircraft missile launchers. Aft basically follows the layout of the Ukrainian ship weapons platform, each configured with bow around a 1130 near Artillery and a red flag with a 18-mounted 10 short-range air defense missile launchers, each configuration a stern about 12 The anti-submarine rocket depth charge launchers. The 17 ship Unai device of a new generation of universal Unai system (3.3 meters long bomb type), aft on each side set 8-unit launch tube, barreled four medium-range air defense missile, a total of 64.

17 ship Unai device is smaller than that of the Ukrainian ship, but the figure did not redundant space design for the deck, but was free, this is for the future installation of the new weapons and leave the room for modification. Defense weapons installed on the aircraft carrier Unai practice is also subject to the attention of the United States, Ford aircraft carrier may be installed MK41 Unai system. Although there is no the Ukrainian ship then terrorist firepower density and depth of the 17-ship defense, but also much higher than the Nimitz class.