美國《國家利益》雜誌刊文稱，中國001A型航母（山東艦）大小不及美艦，但技術裝備配置有所超越。

 

Chinas New Aircraft Carriers Are Small, But Dont Let That Deceive You .

 

They are still very deadly.

 

中國海軍山東號航空母艦.CV-17.排水量只有6.5萬噸，在美國排水量10萬噸的尼米茲級和福特級航母前顯得小，但美國航母是典型的二戰時期戰艦，是浮動的機場，借助彈射裝置推送戰機升空，而001A型航母則使用快速起飛和垂直降落的方式作戰。」

美國習慣於向全世界投射力量，需要能夠抵達遼遠地點並投放眾多飛機的大型航母，而中國的001A型航母明顯將在南海作戰，不會遠離陸地和島嶼的基地，戰時能夠向航母提供導彈和航空兵支援。在這種情況下，中國航母不會像美國航母那樣需要那麼多的飛機。」

 

 

 

 

Chinas New Aircraft Carriers Are Small, But Dont Let That Deceive You. They are still very deadly.

Heres What You Need To Remember: China’s carrier fleet is still a work in progress. But the Type 001A will probably operate in the South China Sea or other waters not far from the Chinese mainland or island bases, where it would enjoy support from land-based aircraft or missiles. In that case, a Chinese carrier wouldn’t need to carry as many planes as an American vessel.

Is China’s newest aircraft carrier half-full or half-empty?

That depends on how you look at the vessel’s aircraft capacity.

The ship, prosaically named the Type 001A for now, is China’s second carrier and the first built in China. The first carrier, the Liaoning, is a refurbished ex-Soviet vessel.

The Liaoning could carry twenty-four J-15 fighters. The Type 001A can carry thirty-six J-15s plus various support aircraft and helicopters, according to Chinese media.

“Although the second carrier known as the Type 001A is similar to the Liaoning, it has an optimized flight deck, reduced weapon areas and a smaller superstructure with added deck areas,” a Chinese naval expert told China’s state-owned Global Times. “It also has an enlarged hanger, but reduced space for missile storage compared to the Liaoning.”

 Interestingly, Global Times suggested that twenty-four J-15s on the Liaoning “could be a limit factor as a regional combat might require about 40 aircraft in order to seize air supremacy. The 36 fighter jets on the Type 001A would greatly expand its combat capability.”

But Global Times also noted that the United States “operates much larger aircraft carriers, including the Nimitz-class which can carry about 60 aircraft, while the countrys latest Ford-class can carry about 75.”

 Where China’s inexperience with building and operating aircraft carriers is seen by critics as a drawback, Hu Wenming, chairman of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation and head of Chinas aircraft carrier program, suggested that Chinese shipbuilders are both mature—and youthful—at the same time. 

“China now has a mature development and construction team, and the average age of team members is only 36,” he said. “Whatever type of aircraft carrier our country wants to develop in the future, we can make it on our own,”

“It took only 26 months to build and launch the Type 001A, which is Chinas first domestically developed aircraft carrier, almost half of the time for a foreign aircraft carrier of similar type to finish construction,” Chinese state-owned broadcaster CCTV added.

China.J-18 Red Eagle VSTOL (Jianjiji-18 Fighter aircraft 18) / F-18.

 

美國認為中國新一代的航空母艦極為可能搭載垂直起降戰鬥機J-18.(紅鷹)

 

CV-17./CV-18.CVN-21.都是將要首先以J-18.垂直起降戰鬥機為艦載機.

 

 

根據西方軍事情報員透露出,中國空軍J-18垂直起降戰鬥機,近日來在蒙古某空軍基地成功試飛,由此看來,中國空軍又多元化形成,第5代隱形戰鬥機,北約軍事戰略分析家認為,J-18垂直起降戰鬥機,很有可能配置於CV-18.CVN-21核子動力航空母艦,以利將來對抗美國F-35B.這款被中國空軍命名為紅鷹的垂直起降戰鬥機,由於實屬機密,截至目前為止,西方尚未有任何詳細資訊,完整披露J-18參數資料.

中國計劃於2025年完成首批J-18作戰中隊,服役於海軍航空母艦戰鬥群或是直昇機攻擊航空母艦/兩棲攻擊艦?

 

 

The Type 001A was launched in 2017, and has so far undergone six sea trials. Apparently, not all has gone smoothly, as the most recent tests suggested problems with the ship.

So how does the Type 001A rate as an aircraft carrier? The 65,000-ton vessel is dwarfed by a 100,000-ton U.S. Nimitz- or Ford-class carrier, which can carry almost double the aircraft of their Chinese counterparts. But the U.S. carriers are conventional World War II-style carriers that are essentially floating runways, with long flight decks in which aircraft are launched by catapult, and then return to make an abrupt arrested-wire landing.

The Type 001A is a Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL), or “ski-jump” carrier, with a sharply inclined bow for abbreviated takeoffs by aircraft that will then land vertically like a helicopter. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth-class uses the same approach: with the British flattops displacing about 65,000 tons and carrying about thirty-six F-35B STOVL aircraft, they’re equivalent to the Chinese carriers. Both classes are smaller and less capable than the American giants.

 

The problem with comparisons is that different nations need different aircraft carriers. The United States, accustomed to projecting power and prestige around the globe, relies on huge carriers that can sail to remote locations and launch a relatively large number of aircraft—a sixty-plane U.S. Navy carrier air wing is equivalent to about three or four U.S. Air Force squadrons.

China’s carrier fleet is still a work in progress. But the Type 001A will probably operate in the South China Sea or other waters not far from the Chinese mainland or island bases, where it would enjoy support from land-based aircraft or missiles. In that case, a Chinese carrier wouldn’t need to carry as many planes as an American vessel.