I don’t think China will ever develop a comparable manned aircraft carrier capability. Drone tech is growing too fast and the complexities of the machinery alone, say nothing of the coordination challenges are prohibitive. Would be curious what type of catapult technology they are working on On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM <mgbrattland@gerlecreek.com> wrote:
*Unconfirmed reports suggest that, in addition to the Type 004 at Dalian, China is poised to start working on a conventionally powered carrier at **Jiangnan in Shanghai. **This location would make sense inasmuch as this was the yard that built the **Fujian**. If these reports are correct, the finished product would likely be an improved Type 003 design.*
In September 1980, I was assigned to HMS Antrim(D-18) which along with several other ships made a formal visit to Shanghai, going up the Yangtze River and alongside in (Downtown, for a lack of a better term) Shanghai. During the trip up the river, you go right by Jiangnan Shipyard. I included several official 1979 photos of it taken by the French Navy when they made the same visit to Shanghai the year prior in 1979. Anyone going up the river to Shanghai gets an eyeful during the trip, including a comprehensive look at Jiangnan Shipyard and several Chinese Air Bases which had Chinese MIG-21s in the pattern over flying the river at the time.
I was not sure whether the US was fully connected with this official visit so I visited the USDAO in Hong Kong during our pre port call and shared it with the USN Attache who were quite happy to know more about it, including my planned part of the intel collection and eventually share in all the intel data we collected going up the river, including video, still camera and other written intel during our post Shanghai visit to Tokyo during the intel debrief at the British Embassy which included both the RN and USN.
The whole trip was fascinating with the Chinese then so different than today. It was a backwater in 1980….mgb
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