Editors' Pick|121,579 views|Jun 15, 2020,06:33am EDT
China’s New Aircraft Carrier Disappears
H I Sutton
China is building a new large aircraft carrier, the Type-003 Class. The ship will be a closer equivalent of the U.S. Navy’s carriers than the two ships already in service with the Chinese Navy. Open-source intelligence analysts have recently spotted something surprising however. The unfinished vessel has disappeared from its construction site in Shanghai. Based on analysis of publicly available satellite imagery we can determine that it was moved between May 25 and May 28.
Chinese Navy Type-003 Carrier construction site, Shanghai
The aircraft carrier was being constructed in a special dock at Shanghai, but has surprisingly been ...
- H I Sutton (Satellite imagery from Sentinel Hub)
The Type-003 will differ from China’s existing two carriers by having an Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), similar to the USS Ford. The current carriers use a ski-jump which limits the payload carried by the jets when they take off.
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