Is the island of the Type 004 aircraft carrier officially revealed? The cement aircraft carrier platform has undergone significant changes, and the world's smallest aircraft carrier island has emerged?

Potential design of the Type 004 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier island is publicly revealed, with major changes to the official cement aircraft carrier test platform, and the next-generation aircraft carrier island is smaller than the Fujian ship, finally overtaking the US Navy by taking a shortcut?

Oriental commentary: At the time of the start of the new generation of aircraft carriers, a recent change has occurred in the official cement aircraft carrier island test platform in a certain place in China. From the photos, it can be seen that the new aircraft carrier island is clearly smaller, and its volume is even smaller than that of the Ford class, which is called the world's smallest aircraft carrier island.

This is because the exhaust gas generated by the fuel combustion of the conventional aircraft carrier power system needs to be discharged through large flues, which are basically accommodated in the island during the design, so the diameter of the aircraft carrier flue can reach 3-4 meters, which actually further occupies the lateral width of the island, making it impossible to further reduce the size of the island.

However, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers do not need to consider this issue, as their power source is a nuclear reactor, and they do not require fuel storage, boilers, flue cooling, and other conventional power auxiliary systems.

This directly releases the design space of the island, so this is also the main reason why the islands of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are completely smaller than those of conventional aircraft carriers.

In addition, the test platform of the new aircraft carrier fleet also adopts a more advanced integrated mast similar to the Type 055, and also carries the domestically produced new multi-band radar (suspected to be S/X band fusion), and the hardware has completely exceeded the level of the US Ford-class aircraft carriers.

Original text: www.toutiao.com/article/1845703570373644/

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