3 Problems for China's New Fujian Aircraft Carrier 

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Did my thesis on this exact subject in 2016. You nailed it all. From tonnage displacement, the Liaonang being outdated, the Malaka straight and 9 dash line. You presented all of this so well in a short amount of time that took me some 120 pages haha.

I love your channel. It always reminds me the best way to win a war is by underestimating one's adversary.

It took me a minute to realise that the footage at 7:45 was some sort of simulation. I was really concerned about where this combat footage was coming from, but I was relieved when I noticed that there was some digital trickery going on. Keep up the great work Cappy 😂

The US has been operating carriers for _over_ 100 years, not nearly 100 years. The first US carrier was converted from a collier USS Jupiter beginning in 1920, and re-commissioned as USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922. The 100 year birthday of the US carrier fleet was 20 March 2022.

The fact they got the sister ship of the Kuznetzov working is pretty neat on its own. Considering the sibling and all.

21:24 haha his little brest pockets flipping up in the wind so cute

You're absolutely spot on about naval air power pilots..... .we gave up naval aviation in 2014 when we retired the Illustrious and the loss in capability meant that our crews had to get retraining from the USN and French Navy to bring our crews and pilots back up to speed as we're all senior NATO members and close partners. Thank you USN, USMC and French carrier crews and pilots.🇬🇧🇺🇸🇲🇫✌️

I think the point you made about training and experience with regard to the U.S. and Chinese militaries is quite valid. If marching smartly in lock-step was actually worth something in combat, the Chinese would be very impressive. Most images you see of U.S. military, they are sauntering along and chatting casually among themselves. They know what they're doing.

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Thank you for posting this interesting video

Another informative post well worth watching.

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Love your channel. Informative, well researched and food for thought.🤙

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As always, great job and very informative.

After 20+ yeas in the Navy most of that time at sea on several USN Carriers, I can say you have done a great job in your analysis of the Chinees Carriers! Agree that while they are not ready for primetime, they are putting in the work to get there!

Awesome context!

catapult may be supported by a battery or super capacitor bank, or a hybrid of both.

The Fujian uses DC for its EMALS system rather than AC for the Ford. Essentially, it is more energy efficient and easier to maintain which is what a conventional carrier needs but is more expensive to operate and build.

The issues with these carriers the fuel consumption on a ramp jump is insane compared to catapulting. The other issue for China, US Carriers can put to air double the aircraft two times as fast. These are good if you’re going to pick on a smaller power but can’t go toe to toe with Nimitz or Ford class carriers.

Great presentation!

A great point on the diesel generation of electricity to power EMALS. As an engineer I believe this would be difficult and the sortie rate will go down.

My dad was on the USS Coral Sea CVA-43 and worked on F-4 phantoms. Army E-4 Mafia for me.😎

Chris cappy is my favourite in the RU-vid platform, not only just watching his podcasts to get updates but also a lecturer, best military combats, effective weapons, armored vehicles, helicopters, fighting jets, and best Strategy to executes battlefields to the way to deliver Strategic decisive victory. I always appreciates you chris chappy....🙏.

Excellent and Outstanding!!!!

Nicely done report

I can already see a new video in 2030s titled “Why China’s 5 carriers is no match for the US in tonnage” and another one in 2040s titled “Why tonnage doesn’t matter when it comes to nuclear powered carriers”

The Chinese Navy is pretty much favoring incremental experimental designs, which is why they have 3 ships that are all different types of carriers. Those are used as tech test beds but also for crew training. It's likely the fourth type will be nuclear, though it is possible China will build another conventional type 003 as it would be a cheaper option while being very useful for training which does not require long range deployments.

Need to see this

Conventional and nuclear powered carriers are technically all steam powered. Conventional carriers just use oil to boil water. A nuclear powered carrier is also just a giant water heater. Nuclear power isn't anything like a power plant in Star Trek. If you go into a nuclear power plant on a carrier, all you're gonna see is a bunch of pipes and cables coming out of a big box (the reactor). They both just use steam to spin a turbine.

Let me correct something: China has recruited 30 British spies with naval aviation experience because MI-6, which doesn't exist, sees an opportunity to get an inside scoop on the People's Liberation Army Navy that can't be missed.

Good pace, good clarity.

I imagine that the 'ski-jump' ramp would do some nasty damage to the forward landing gear when it hits that slope.

Thanks!

This is interesting watching this, just yesterday I read a news article talking about how China has about 40-50 days of oil/fuel. I can't help but think how all of this would just sit around due to a fuel shortage.

Those magnet bars properly take a lot of spaces under that first deck too!

If you'd like to see the U.S.'s ElectroMagnetic launch system in action, you can catch it at the fair next year with a pack of Greyhounds chasing it. I heard the track got a great deal on the parts at auction.

The scariest part to me is not how effective the carrier is in actuality-it’s the speed at which they got to this point. In the 80s China barely had a Navy at all. I foresee this causing some major issues in the future.

Hey! I have that shirt! All these aircraft carriers run on steam, the difference is that they use nuclear reactors to produce steam instead of coal or oil. Great video!

Great video.

Great video. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Chinese carriers are not ready for major war with more experienced US navy yet, but they are learning faster than any previous contenders.

Thanks Chris and the team for your efforts in preparing all these detailed reports. Love your channel !❤

I don't say this often, but this was an excellent video that was right on point! It was refreshing to watch a video that was accurate and educational

You pronounced NUCLEAR powered correctly twice in a row! Dude! I am so proud of you. You are becoming more professional and dignified day by day. Kudos. Keep up the good work. Please brag about this breakthrough to your speech therapist.

"At any ship speed" sounds like cutting off all screw power (and lights) to put all of it into the catapult... despite the fact that a head wind helps with lift.

As usual, the video author carefully prepared and obtained a bunch of outrageous results on the rich and detailed materials. This is very in line with the intellectual level of Europeans and Americans.

Interesting video,peace brother…

19:59 "The aircraft carrier was spotted 89 ft away from its berthing place."

Did I see a brief flash of a diesel-generator system for their EMALS? That dead load test looked pretty weak as well, no surprise. Good luck with that! Good, clear presentation that ties together well. I'd be surprised to see this ship operational before I die of old age.

Yes. Although these equipment have already been tested extensively on the land, they need to be tested onboard Fijian AC for verification which IMO will not be a problem. Unlike USAF F-35 or USN USS Gerald Ford where the development is performed in concurrency, I believe the PLAN are quite meticulous in the testing procedures. They won't rush the approval process. As for AC pilots, PLAN have been recruiting and training these new recruits for years, using the CV-16 Liaoning which is designated as a training and testing Aircraft Carrier. That is why CV-17 Shandong went ao smoothly. Look at their Shenzhou 18 spacecraft luanched a few days ago, it all went so routinely without any hitch. The same is true with their military hardwares. But successful testing of CV-18 will accelerated the construction of more AC which two will be build simultaneously at once with a new nuclear powerplant. These are interesting time for enthusiasts like us.

@Task and Purpose I will admit that the PLAN has more hulls then the USN; however bring those hulls for weighing and you’ll see that the USN is still much larger in the tonnage.

I don't see it in the comments enough - Thank you Chris. Always so much thought and research in your videos. Thank you

That Type 360X about to be lit!!!

The deck is lifting it has power issues it takes 48 hours for the engines to be operational and logistical Hull testing has not being completed it is a death trap

I think you are spot on about freedom of navigation vs denying others such freedom of navigation in what they perceive as their "territorial waters." Even though they have deployed ships into the middle east, there have yet to be any reports of them defending ships by intercepting missals or drones, and the bulk of the naval ships they've built are not deep water vessels with extensive, global reach, though they are seeking to build out such capability.

How come I saw the test launch already?

Remember how back in the early 90s, China barely had a navy except converted fishing boats .Fast forward to the current days, churning out British navy -size number of ships every 4 years. That very impressive.

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Keyboard expert,

As an American, im a big fan of China carrying on the USSR's historic quality control. Im sure that these vessels are fine and wont fall apart ubder their own girth.

Could be Type 0030, taking inspiration from Mazda CX line.

What are your thoughts about welding issues with Chinese built ships.

Not sure it will work but the ambition to jump right into a large aircraft carrier is impressive.

At the rate you put out these good videos I have to ask: do you ever sleep? 😅

Only two navies currently have commissioned operational catobar carriers, the US and France.

Thanks for sharing Cappy

Do a video on their upcoming type 004 aircraft carrier

The EMAG step was bold. The rest of the carrier design makes a lot of sense to me. They are progressing. But the biggest challenge will be crew and experience. I wish the US would focus on the crew and experience factor more than building the super-carrier Ford and its future siblings. A modest carrier even coal-powered carrier of the Kitty-Hawk class with a great crew is a formidable projection of power. We would probably get more bang for our buck building smaller carriers and getting more pilots and seamen with real seat time. my 2c

Thanks to bring out that much of knowledge and information 👍

Here in the UK, the RN Queen Elizabeth-class uses IEP, but was initially specced for EMALS... so it's not impossible, in theory. But it gets murkier: that _was_ the ambition, but then BAE owned up that it was too much of a tech risk to deliver on time, so that was downscoped to a vague aspiration that 'at some point' an EMALS and or directed-energy weapon system might be retrofitted (because 'the IEP massively stronk'). No-one here's holding their breath on that, not least because you'd have to remove the ski-jump.

Notice the “Farley Laserlab” laser cutting machine? Supplied by Australia. Wonder if they’re still supplying the Chinese?

You need to update your info, Fujian has published video showing successful test of its catapult.

Just 3 problems? Damn, they’re doing good!😂

Notice they're marching the instructors alot? That's so they can run good on those treadmills to power the EMALs! 🤣🤣🤣

So big easy to spot it

So an EMALS system is like a rail gun/gauss gun that uses a plane instead of a slug?

Why am I put in mind of high school students who relied on ChatGPT, yet imagine they know it all?

That thing would look amazing as a diving reef. You could play Count the Skeletons.

We should train, plan, and strategize as if those threats are fully capable. They should be taken seriously, underestimating the enemy is an excellent way to lose a fight. If we train this way and they prove themselves incapable then it will be an easy win with low effort and hopefully no losses. If we set our standards so that the enemy is viewed as incapable it'll be a more difficult win regardless, or in the worst case we can lose. The titanic was supposed to be unsinkable, but we all know how that turned out. Yes, having good intelligence on capabilities is good, but being prepared to meet an equal or more powerful adversary is always the better route. Never underestimate your enemy.

I like your analysis. You have collected way more data than other posters. I am here to address the power questions in your video with some new data. The Ford aircraft power output from its 2 A1B nuclear reactors is 280k horsepower. For comparison Fujian is 260k horsepower, slightly less then Ford, but sufficient for its catapults. The benefit of nuclear reactors is its sustainability but not necessarily power output. The idea of using aircraft carrier is way different between China and US. US needs long commission time and more jets to "complete versatile missions" at "multiple hot zones", so nuclear power and mid-sized F35 are best suited (so a carrier can carry more). China on the other hand, does not have that many "interested zones" so nuclear power is not very needed, besides even if China want nuclear power, it has to take it step by step. The next point is 【very important】: there are very few situations/targets that would require China to deploy its aircraft carriers. Actually, there is only one possible opponent and that one has a big fucking navy, so for this kind of navy battle, you may not want lots of jets, but instead bigger and heavier jets that flies longer and can carry bigger missiles----you only need one shot. For China, its super speed missile, the 21D navy version is way too big to be carried by mid-sized jets, so that's why J15 is needed. The type 055 destroyer/cruiser also carries such missile, and that's why 055's silos are 9m deep. Its US counterpart's ---- USS Ticonderoga---- silos are 6m deep (the Zumwalt? Err...I've never seen a warship that cost so much and cannot do serious sea battle before). In short, the US aircraft carriers are like Swiss tools, they can battle with many nations. China's carriers on the other hand are like screwdrivers, they only servers one purpose. 【In the end】, I have to emphasize, for peace loving people, nobody wants a war, nobody wants to trade a warm night with a nice......(anyway, nice) for a cold night in a trench. But the world is just not so fancy as we think. Someone wants money, to buy a mansion, maybe to trip to a distant island loaded with girls......and many more pervert, low, and despicable purposes, they would call you a demon and start a war. Stop that from happening, I hope.

I think it boils down to this in short: China is still venturing anew in the maritime warfare and starts out with critical flaws- like most pioneers would. The scary part IMO is that China does has the capacity to adapt & learn quickly. The US has been doing this for ca. 100 years, it goes without saying the US Navy is much more refined at this point.

Sounds like there should have been a hybrid step inbetween steam and electric. The electric part could have smothed out the acceleration.

To operate the EMALs, the radars, the weapons system, and the ancillary systems all at the same time in a combat situation will more than likely cause one or more of those systems to shutdown do to power systems limitations. The US aircraft carriers could also be tankers for the support ships that escort them. The same can not be said about the Chinese carriers.

Great video man, with really good information. I watch your channel all the time, and this video was awesome. All are but this stuck out. Great job man.

I figured out what their integrated power system is! It really will allow them to power an EMALS. They integrate their aircraft carrier with the local power grid of whatever city they are ported in (Shanghai for instance). Then they can indeed show their EMALS working… while it’s plugged in to land! 😂😂😂

My guess is they have to coast the ship and send that power to charge the caps (I say that because "they can launch planes at any ships speed") so slowing down (coasting) yea and what about their electromagnetic gun? Still a b.s. tiger?

what if they used capacitors to run the catapults?

I liked your "003 Problems to Solve title" - That was good.

It's only natural that the Chinese run into problems because these are massive complex platforms that takes years and decades to master or even get familiar. That said so, their progress has been rapid and much smoother than many anticipated. With their 5th gen naval platforms achieving mass production, they will be even more formidable. For now they only seem to want to be dominant in Asia pacific but we can predict where this is going.

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Capacitors?

The J-15 looks like an A-5 Vigilante had love child with a SU-37, and neither one wanted to raise it.

So proud of the PLAN. They have been striving to evolve into a Blue water Navy. I think this leapfrog into this new technology is awesome!

From other videos (esp. China Observer), apparently the Chinese EMALS was based on technology from its Maglev train systems, and not stolen from the US Navy. Most likely that's a much lower power technology since the rails would not have to accelerate the train to 100+ knots within 2 seconds, and so upscaling that technology into higher power levels is probably their biggest hurdle.

Boaty McBoatFace! Had to give a thumbs up for that statement alone. Keep rocking Cappy!

Is Cappy a military advisor for China now?

The PLAN uses a very different EMALS system to the USN. The U.S. variant is a high voltage system that needs nuclear power, while the Chinese one uses a medium voltage system that allows it to store energy in the ships batteries and use it for aircraft ops. The Chinese system doesn’t need nuclear power, it does however need the ship to be fitted with an advanced integrated electric propulsion system. Just because the U.S. doesn’t use this system doesn’t make the Chinese one less capable, it’s very possible that the Chinese have made a tech breakthrough here ahead of the U.S.

Good point about energy requirement's. Maybe they can close their onboard supermarket, to save energy to allow their planes to fly. Making sure they are not drying their laundry on the deck would help too. But they may have learnt the lessons that Japan gave them, in regards to how to use a fighting ship correctly.