New Satellite Images Show a Chinese Carrier Under Construction

The pic they're using is from an official Chinese source. Not any satellite imagery. (Russian carrier filler img.)

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[link to in.sputniknews.com]

What is being concealed behind the information on the second Chinese aircraft carrier?

On the 31st of January, on the official micro blog of the national government Changzhou City, it was reported that a cable company from the city has won a tender for the supply of its products for the second Chinese carrier. Then, this information was removed from the Internet, but evoked vigorous comments from experts and followers of military equipment. According to Vasily Kashin from the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, a new wave of publications on the construction of a second aircraft carrier to China by itself adds little to the information already available on the Chinese aircraft carrier program. There is no doubt about the fact that a second aircraft carrier is being built, considers the Russian expert.

Information from Changzhou is not the first time that information on the construction of a second aircraft carrier has leaked out. There have already been several of them, including last year's statement of the party's leader from the Liaoning Province — Wang Min, who declared in early 2014, that preparations are on to build two new aircraft carriers.

What do we know about the state of this program at this point of time? The second Chinese aircraft carrier, which will have the serial number — "17", is currently being built at a shipyard in Dalian. The ship itself is based on a revised design of "Liaoning" with which it will have a significant resemblance. Internal changes, however, may be quite substantial.

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China’s First Domestic Aircraft Carrier Almost Certainly Under Construction

China has quietly begun construction on its first domestic aircraft carrier in the same northern Chinese shipyard that refurbished the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s current Soviet-era carrier, USNI News has learned.

Several sources confirmed to USNI News that an unknown shipbuilding project — first noticed publically by Jane’s in late February — is almost without a doubt the bones of the PLAN’s first domestically-built carrier.

Sources pointed USNI News to an April photograph that emerged on the Chinese language Internet of a ship under construction at the Dalian yard believed to be the super structure of the PLAN’s second carrier.

[link to news.usni.org]

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dont mean they will work lol

Intel suggests 6 firecrackers will take this ship down and warranty is only one year

no worries dudes, china is such fail the carrier will fall apart before leaving the dry dock lol

China army has 7 million soldiers.

So what?

America has these too

Showing China's move from refurbishing cold war rust buckets to their own home built carriers. Also shows China's willingness to increase their navy.

Good. They'll need protection from the American navy

Any country can build a carrier you stupid fucks.

Retard logic

Huprdy durrrrrr guy from U.S. posts and article about the Chinese Navy and immediately thinks this is a U.S. vs China issue.




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Except Australians.

Haha, because we just use yours or ones from the motherland (UK)

Your local dollar stores and walmarts at work keep up the donations I know everyone cant live without all the stuff..

And all the manufactures in the USA buying the Nuts' bolts' fasteners semiconductors, and all the components of most everything we use keep up those donations too, god knows we cannot make nuts and bolts here on our own land by us citizens...


Keep up the great work suplying trillions of dolars to CHina so the Governement can realize there engineering marvels.

When is the US starting work on the USS Barack H Obama?

While the OP's article is recent, news of this development is not.

Several new carriers have been under construction for a while.

The Chinese government has publicly stated they intend to upwards of 10 in
the coming years.

Keep in mind that having a carrier and planes means little at this point.

The learning curve is long and increasingly steep to be able to effectively
deploy such an asset in a meaningful way. From mechanical issues to conducting
flight ops, from strategies and tactics to protecting the asset (they NEVER
sail alone), to establishing an officer corp skilled enough to manage the asset
and smart enough to raise up younger officers, and on, and on, and on.

This is not to say they it can not be used, but there is still many years of
learning in front of them to be able to project power anywhere near as
effectively as western nations who have been at it for decades.

That's pretty top secret stuff right there.

America can't even take down Assad in a third world country. The Huberis today is staggering...

Hell we don't even have a fucking country anymore.

Go to russia commie turd!

letting go is hard

They Love BIll Clinton

he gave them everything

Dude china's army is 7 million retards strong. Don't sweat it they are so fail they have never seen combat and they have no tactical skill or good command structure.

LoL with the such high quality metal you get in those $5 crap Chinese knives, I can't wait to see how these things do if they use Chinese steel.

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we don't need one...


australia IS one....

Touche.

This is so true, plus add all bureaucracy and red tape their Government runs on and add to that how every Military officer is more worried/paranoid about keeping his job that they would never do anything without every order given to them in triplicate and publicly approved by the Chinese President to all the top Military brass that I can't see anyone doing anything meaningful with these carriers, and that's if they don't sink in first 25 knot wind and waves they encounter.

Technology is amazing, isn't it? Satellites now hover a couple feet from the ground!

It doesn't look like a satellite image to me, not one bit.

that image is almost 5 years old, and its a soviet carrier, given to the chinese, they are retrofitting. Its called the Liaoning


though China is in the process of building 9 carriers, two of which are already started, plan to be at sea by 2023 with all 9

China steel is shit. Unless they imported the good expensive steel from Russia or somewhere else this carrier really will be very much a Walmart brand aircraft carrier. Cheap and easily broken.

The best constructed most durable things I've ever seen were in the military out of Russian steel and Iron but American design and manufactured. They were making tools and equipment that will last a hundred years with basic maintenance.