That's why it is called a shakedown cruise , to work out the bugs , it took over two years for the Ford to complete them. That's a nice looking boat 👏👊

This is probably one of the most practical, no-nonsense video on flight deck operations on a carrier. The schematic for the flight deck arrangements at different phases, especially comparing between Fujian and Ford is awesome. Well done.

India’s kowtow aircraft carrier did not even carry aircraft. Maybe India should build more and put it as a museum for tourism.

The idea that this carrier is an evolution of the Shandong is interesting and makes sense. It gives them a working modern carrier with electric catapults in a shorter time period, and allows them to train the crew and pilots. And it gives them time to design a better carrier without the compromises you mentioned.

Can’t believe the first aircraft launched from Fujian carrier is a DJI camera drone😂

🎉❤ Bravo to Motherland China 🇨🇳

Bonjour , merci . Magnifique bateau . Toutes mes félicitations à ce grand peuple que sont les chinois . Leurs compétences et leur abnégation sont visibles dans ce superbe vaisseau . Je leur souhaite un bon futur . Au revoir .

Those are remarkably good video clips and photographs. This ship is a major addition to the PLAN fleet, and I imagine the PLAN are rather proud of her!

What a MAGNIFICENT Aircraft Carrier! Beautiful & Deadly!

The public broadcasting the high definition video of the new aircraft carrier shows the confident of Chinese Army also the strategy change on top of it. We expect to see more of these in the coming time.

From iran with love for C H I N A 🇨🇳 🇨🇳 🇨🇳

Huge Respect to the Chinese and China

I look forward to seeing a group sail of the Liaoning, the Shandong, and the Fujian.

Great update, thank you

Will you be covering the newly sighted china drones carrier?

It is quite interesting that the hull design is still based largely on the Shandong. Type 004 could be the first time the designers move away from Shandong base hull for a clean sheet design that will allow a redesign of the entire hull structure that is more suitable for a supercarrier and even for nuclear propulsion.

A very beautiful ship. Another great video ENI, many thanks!

Highly informative video!

Go China!

So elegant.

Compare to Indian aircraft carrier, Fujian sails smoothly and swiftly... Indian aircraft carrier rocks up and down like kowtowing making big waves throwing the weight to one side out of balance😂

Stunning beauty! Go PLAN!

the foward elevator position was originally designed for a steam catapult which is shorter than the current electromagnetic catapult, when they made the decision to switch to the electro magnetic catapult they decided not to re-design the whole front starboard side of the vessle

Very professional video Fujian ship is a beautiful ship.

excited for the fourth carrier

With these experiences and the ones they will get building the 004, China will be ready with the 005 to have a typeship for mass production.

This is some serious research. Great work!

It look really tidy, without the sky ramp.

in Moderrn Warships event i have Type 044 i still like using Fujian

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I noticed two camera turrets on the front edge of the bow deck as well. Pretty cool.

Every single class carrier China builds like the Fujian is just a proof concept and likey used for training in the future, when China builds its first multi hull order.

With each carrier, China learns more and more. Every subsequent carrier enjoys major improvements. The Fujian is not the ultimate carrier; it doesn't need to match the Gerald R. Ford. The Type 004 will rock! Still, the Fujian is a beautiful and most impressive ship.

Hi ,great content . will it be possible to make a video about the south korean kss III ?

The Indians say the Fujian can't swin Butterfly style. With each rise of the bow creating extra lift their 1980s vintage Mig-29 roll off the ski jump well timed can be launched without the need for catapult.

There are several thing about the layout of the Fujian that I think may be a problem in operations. Some of the weapons elevators are in locations that may conflict with aircraft parking making them useless. Weapons movement in the ship should be as direct as possible from the assembly area near the magazines to the flight deck. Working them from one elevator to another below deck around parked aircraft or through passageways just delays delivery. Having them reach the flight deck near the aircraft is not a help when the aircraft could have been parked anywhere on the flight deck. The weapons jettison ramps on the elevators would not help the hanger deck as the elevators would be up most of the time. I never saw a US carrier take armed aircraft to the hanger deck. Bombs and rockets would be disarmed and removed and taken to the flight deck storage area. The space outboard of the island on American carriers was used as a staging area for weapons on carts for the flight deck crew to draw from. Unless your operation a lot of Helicopters 2 places is enough and they would not need to be marked. Some of these problems come from inexperience in operation of a ship of this type. Operational knowledge must be applied at design. There are probably other thing is the design that we can not see that will be problems because of inexperience in operation. This is the way you learn but it gets costly when it's put it in metal because you didn't know. I see the Chinese have adopted the personal color code for flight deck operations from the US.

NICE LOOKING SHIP 🥰

The iterative approach makes a lot of sense. You don't do three different carrier generations in 17 years without borrowing extensively from the prior version. It will be interesting to see the island placement on the Type 004.

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Who was chosen to be captain?

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I do not at all understand having weapons elevators adjacent to the stern. Perhaps there is a huge doctrinal difference between the US and China's carrier aviation; but physically it makes sense to locate the arming/disarming stations more-or-less amidship because that is where the planes will start their launches and also where they're going to end up after being recovered. Despite giving the situation some thought, I really can't come up with any viable explanation why there'd be any flush-mounted hatches of any sort at those locations.

about the island, the most probably reason to NOT move the island further is the funnel and air inlet. we can see lots of funnel design in the history of aircraft carrier. some IJN carriers has a huge sliding island and a upside down L shaped funnel. i mention this here is to say the funnel is actually decide what island is on aircraft carrier. china use type 426 steam turbine system on war ship. honestly this is world most advanced conventional powered steam purposion system nowadays although hardly war ship use boilers and steam turbines now. a large carrier mostly start design more than 15 years ago before first flight test. that means it shows technology of 15 years ago two major changes did in building progress which actually delays the time by more than 2 years and bring in more uncertainty, the electric catapult and addition steam generators to power the catapult, navy take the risk and made the chance, and actually turns out favorable

Fujian will have the world's best anti-missile and anti-torpedo defense.

Dont worry is just a paper ship wkwkwk listen to the western and indian analysis says😅

This is much better aircraft carrier design than the other two Chinese aircraft carriers. It is also has a high maintenance cost 💲 later..

Would be nice if you can also give an in-depth look at another nation in the Asian continent with Carriers… the Indian Navy. Would be cool to see how they stack up against the country they’ve had border skirmishes against..

should there be an ANTI SUBMARINE carrier t o accompany the aircraft carrier?

I have to admit, the Fujian is an elegant looking carrier. Given that China builds far more ships than any other country (by many measures, more than the rest of the world combined), I imagine the Fujian was built for far less than the $13 billion cost of the USS Ford. If one subtracts the extra cost for the Ford's nuclear power (?? perhaps $3 or $4 billion??), I wonder how much less costly it is for China to build carriers.

Does anyone know if Aircraft carrier CWIS systems are active during sea trials? Seems very vulnerable to a preemptive strike if they aren’t.

Can you talk about China SAM system they use on land and on ship?

I see a lot of coping going on in regards to PLAN carriers, These Navy vessels are exactly developed for a specific role and set of missions in mind. Unlike the US, China has built their armed deterrence with an operational peer competitor in mind. i.e the adversary's theatre of operation.

Cool ship! 👍🇨🇳

Look good.

Thanks so much for the very detailed tech explanation! It's so bad than a subjective and baseless comment video

More power PLA Navy 👍💪❤

Chinese super carrier complete well done

Idk why this video make sense .... I just find it true when I think about ur analysis of my own ❤️

*@**16:55**, you know that large door on the island is A#1 target* for a missle at it? Right?

Can US aircraft carrier go backward sail? Fujian Carrier can, at a rather fast speed. This could avoid some torpedo and missile attack.

Aircraft carriers are for power projection. You can't do power projection without projecting your power haha

Get back to us when the Fujian is running actual launch and recoveries at night.

Military fans are waiting to see electromagnetic launch of J35.

it is a hybrid system...which means it deserve a low carbon emission certificate

I can almost guarantee US aircraft were observing the trails AND there was a submarine or two grabbing acoustic signitures of the ship. ROFL It should be kown that rescue helicopters should already be in the air during aircraft launches and recoveries. Fujian is a modification and upgrade of the Shangdong, not a clean sheet design. To be fair, I still believe the Fujian is a technical demonstrator and training tool to develop air operations protocols and carrier doctrine (and possibly changes to carrier fighter designs). While it can be pressed into combat operations, I do not believe it is its primary purpose. As such, I believe it will be a single-ship class becasue the next class will incoprorate lessons learned from the Fujian. China's first carrier designed for actual combat service will be a multi-ship class.

Limited range with diesel propulsion, unlike US nuclear carriers.

has to go to sea with 2 tugboats and a oil supply ship

Shows some drawbacks to the iterative style of the PLAN design process. A lot is said about the inefficiencies of the US procurement style, but it does have its own benefits to its bespoke designs. Any jump as big as one to a CATOBAR carrier would have tried to maximise the potential of the new ship, with the capabilities and costs that come with it, unlike the way the Fujian has been designed.

Quite a beut. Cant wait for when the Type 004, PANG, CVX, Vikrant, Russian carrier (hopefully), and the Turkish and Brazilian aircraft carrier projects get some life.

There are so many problems with this boat, it may not ever be combat ready.

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We have been building carriers for 50 years china doesn’t have clue. Just watch

Great Fujian China war ship. Big

Dictators with toys is always a bad sign.

When will China design their own stuff?

Gray water ship not bluer water ship

Just like China's first two carriers, it is probably a prototype, as part of China's plan to perfect a fully fledged carrier. Next one will possibly be nuclear powered, and slightly different!

Looks like AI. All of the pictures I have seen have a tugboat in them.

Znači Đorđ buš je smanjeni.vec 3ili 4 puta

He will look better at the bottom of the sea, as an artificial reef for fish.

When will the planes get on this ship?

only seeing one elevator,

unlike America's fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the Fujian is conventionally powered, which could limit its range and duration of its deployments. Runs on diesel trash

Tofu-004 almost as good as a Nimitz class carrier same size. Now you need to teach all your pilots how to land on it. I wonder if the ocean could be any calmer. The door on the tower is to jump while it’s sinking. Wonder if it does 44knots

potential problem of the port side HQQ-10 shorad SAM in the way of a failed launch from the 3rd catapult or a bolter landing mishap.

Indian aircraft carries can not be compared to chinese ptoduction its a long way off...😅😅😅

The carrier long strangely familiar to to an American carrier I’ve heard the complement is when someone or some country copies another countries military equipment but if China keeps doing this it will stagnate and will never innovate

Nice boat🤎

To copy a American design is the most appreciative form of flattery! Ding Hoa 🇹🇼

Sails great on a flat, glassy sea.😮

Sail top-speed is not easy. Ask UK Navy and Indian Navy. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 1 cant sail top-speed. The other likes to cow-towing at top-speed. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Why does the Chinese helicopter look exactly like the USA helicopter?

This thing is basically the size of a Kitty Hawk class, which means it is nearly twice the size of the Indian carriers. However, just having 2 lifts for a carrier of this size is dumb. If each lift could carry 2 planes, it wouldn't have been that bad...

I was like #666 Oh oh

🤔just wondering how much resupply is needed since it’s capacity to carry fuel for aircraft and munitions is degraded due to requirement too carry fuel for its oil burning power plant unlike the US nuclear powered carriers 😂. Also wonder how much strain is on the ships electrical generating systems when fully operational and trying to continuously launch aircraft with a electro magnetic catapult. Obviously its systems have no reserve power and might actually be limited to sporadic operations unlike the US Nuclear powered carriers which have a rather large power reserve during full and continuous operations 😂 still decades behind the technical abilities of US nuclear carriers not to mention no experience or proven system of how to cycle aircraft and perfo4m maintenance on a large operational scale

Wait till you see the next aircraft carrier; it will be as big as a small “state”moving through the sea,there will no words to describe this achievement. It is being made now in unprecedented secrecy.🀄️

Don't worry. It's just a fake CG.

I'd like to see how it holds up with hits from Brahmos missile

Wow we're not even hiding Chinese propaganda

the REPUBLIC OF COPYLAND