We had a thread on this a couple weeks ago about the portside bow JBD being in the way of the waist landing strip making simultaneous launch and recovery impossible, but now they've bought up some new shit the carrier is afflicted with:
>Initially designed with a steam catapult
>Later changed to an electromagnetic catapult, and since the length was insufficient, it was extended rearward leading to earlier thread topic
>Aircraft carrier Fujian-san, the issue of the catapult position on the starboard side of the bow being quite bad as well. With this, simultaneous use with the forward elevator might be tough, right?
Picrel has deck diagrams in descending order:
>Fujian
>Forrestal-Class
>John F. Kennedy-Class (conventionally powered Kitty Hawk-class for a fair Fujian analog)
Reason why the Forrestal-Class was bought up was because it had this bullshit portside bow elevator half exposed to the JBD in addition to being in the middle of the waist landing strip, a substantial secondary factor making it unusable not only during landings but also during bow launches, which was removed in all proceeding carrier designs. The Fujian has this same elevator JBD problem, but with only 2 elevators instead of 3 on the Forrestal-Class. So elevator usage is reduced to 1 (one) while bow launches are happening.
>The fact that the ship was completed while defects that should have been able to be detected and dealt with early on were left unaddressed suggests that the Chinese ship design department does not have a system in place to check for and correct such defects, which means that while the defect with the catapult was found because it is a visible part, it is highly likely that there are many defects in parts that cannot be seen.
https://x.com/Witchwatch99/status/1987476516385738902
