"What is the difference between the Liaoning ship and the Shandong ship? Putting their ships and islands together is more obvious. "Z1z
When it comes to the two aircraft carriers of the Liaoning and Shandong, everyone is no longer unfamiliar. Although they are very similar in appearance, their origins are "very different." . Among them, the Liaoning ship was transformed from the "Varyag" aircraft carrier built by my country during the Soviet era. After the Soviet Union collapsed, the ship, which had a completion rate of nearly 70%, was owned by Ukraine. However, due to the limitations of Ukraine's national power at that time, it did not have the ability to rebuild this aircraft carrier, and the Navy did not need such a maritime giant. Although Russia had hoped that Ukraine could continue the construction of this aircraft carrier and hand it over to the Russian Navy, it was unable to achieve it in the end because the funds could not be negotiated and there was a lack of related supporting manufacturers.
Later, Ukraine had to find a way to dispose of the aircraft carrier and sold it to the outside world by auction. In 1999, it was bought by Hong Kong businessman Xu Zengping at an auction for US$20 million. Later, he went through a long road to return to China, and did not arrive at Dalian Port until March 4, 2002. After evaluation by experts, they agreed that it had the value of transformation. On April 26, 2005, the Chinese Navy began to continue construction and improvement. After more than 7 years of hard work, the Varyag took off its rusty coat, put on a new outfit and renamed it "Liaoning Ship", and finally Joined the Chinese Navy on September 25, 2012 and became the first aircraft carrier of the Chinese Navy. The emergence of
solves the history of the Chinese Navy without an aircraft carrier, but it does not change the history of the Chinese Navy’s inability to build aircraft carriers, nor can it meet the needs of the growing Chinese Navy. For this reason, we have also set out to design and develop our first domestically-made aircraft carrier. The first domestically-made aircraft carrier was launched on April 26, 2017, which opened the mystery of China’s first domestically-made aircraft carrier, marking that China has become one of the few in the world For countries that independently developed and built aircraft carriers, on December 17, 2019, the Shandong ship was delivered to the navy at a military port in Sanya, Hainan, marking that the construction of China's first aircraft carrier has been fully completed and the Chinese Navy has entered the era of dual aircraft carriers.
However, the Shandong ship will only be a transitional product of the Chinese Navy in the construction of aircraft carriers, because compared with the Nimitz-class and Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the United States, the technology, tonnage, and deterrence are all in a backward state. , Such an aircraft carrier, obviously the Chinese Navy will not be satisfied with this. Its design refers to the Liaoning ship. Except for some modifications and optimizations, the appearance, size and tonnage are almost the same. It also adopts the design style of the Varyag, adopts a skid deck and conventional power, so that many military fans Netizens can't even distinguish the Shandong ship from the Liaoning ship. They all look the same. Some netizens can only distinguish by the ship number. The ship with the ship number 16 is the Liaoning ship, and the ship with the ship number 17 is the Shandong ship.
In order to help you distinguish the two aircraft carriers more intuitively and quickly, here we teach you to distinguish between the two aircraft carriers. The most intuitive difference between the Shandong ship and the Liaoning ship is on the ship island. Compared with the Liaoning ship, the ship island of the Shandong ship has been optimized. We can look at the following two pictures. The first picture is the ship island of the Liaoning ship, and the second picture is the ship island of the Shandong ship. The obvious difference between the two is the bridge part. The Shandong ship has a double-layer design. The Liaoning ship is a single-layer, which can clearly distinguish the two aircraft carriers. The design of
Liaoning ship island
Shandong ship island
also makes the ship island of Shandong ship more compact, occupying a smaller deck area, and can improve the utilization of deck space. Earlier, foreign media commented that the length of the island of the Shandong ship was about 10 meters shorter than that of the Liaoning ship, and the height was increased by 5 meters. The increase in height can greatly improve the field of vision, improve the convenience of command and control, and help command the safety of carrier-based fighter aircraft. The installation height of the radar is higher, and the detection range is increased. At the same time, the two-story design of the bridge can also distinguish different functional departments to avoid confusion in command. There are also obvious differences in the radar. The Liaoning ship uses a 346-type phased array radar with a convex arc on the radome, and the Shandong ship uses a panel design. The antenna array cancels the arc-shaped air-cooled system static pressure box. 346A phased array radar.
It is reported that the sliding deck angle of the Shandong ship has been slightly changed compared with that of the Liaoning ship, and the internal space has also been optimized.The original heavy-duty anti-ship missile launcher in the middle of the deck of the Varyag has been cancelled, and the area of the hangar has been increased. These optimized designs have allowed the Shandong ship to carry more carrier aircraft. The carrying capacity of the Shandong F-15 carrier aircraft has been increased from 24 of the Liaoning ship to 36, greatly improving the combat capability of the Shandong ship.
However, although the Shandong ship does not copy the design of the Liaoning ship as it is, its comprehensive combat capability has also been improved, but it is obviously not our ultimate goal. In the future, we need more advanced and larger aircraft carriers to join the Chinese Navy. , To build a world-class navy. For this, we look forward to it together!
