Beware the submarine aircraft carrier
June 9th, 2009 | Aviation Blogs Carriers Foreign navies Science and technology | Posted by Phil Ewing
China Military Report
From the blog “China Military Report” –which is either written by a robot or somebody whose career began in stereo instructions — comes a chilling portent of future war: A giant Chinese submarine aircraft carrier.
This Pacific Ocean behemoth would slice quietly past American patrols and then surface to launch its 40 strike aircraft where its enemies least expected them. China’s equivalent of Naval Sea Systems Command has just a few engineering challenges to overcome before construction can start. The CMR blog explains its capabilities:
A potential front-end with the mother can take-off and landing of the missile launchers can be fired on the air, such as anti-ship missile (also according to the situation with other missiles), when the underwater vehicle to close the door seal. Second, all enclosed hangar is expected to set the volume for the 40 aircraft carrier-based aircraft, five anti-submarine helicopters, three unmanned AWACS, which is taking off and landing on both sides of the runway for take-off one-time fighter 4.
Quite so. This monster also carries 36 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, serves as a mothership for fast-attack submarines, can travel at the speed of light, changes Pepsi to Coke, finds your car keys, achieves perpetual motion and assures you the check’s in the mail.
There really have been submarine aircraft carriers, though.
Comments
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War Is Boring Says:
June 10th, 2009 at 2:59 am[...] feasible is this thing? According to reporter Phil Ewing, this monster also carries 36 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, serves as a mother-ship for [...]
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Scott Lowther Says:
June 12th, 2009 at 2:56 am“Aerospace Projects Review” ran an article a year ago about Boeing and General Dynamics designs for submarine aircraft carriers… the latter of which was also designed to carry 40 fighters. VTOL fighters at that.
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Jack. Says:
August 21st, 2009 at 2:36 pmDreams can come true. Chinese don’t talk about dreams.
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Wendy Niamath Says:
October 8th, 2009 at 12:34 amThis looks interesting.
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Clifford Hawke Says:
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:14 amThe Chinese clearly have absorbed the lessons of the British and the Americans: Seapower ruled the world in the 1800s, Airpower in the 1900s. Combine the two to rule the 2000s. The era of Europe is over. Down on your knees before the Dragon of the East, Gwylo Dogs!