Row 2650

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**Note:** This design should be retroactive to 2025 if possible

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**Introduction:** Since China has decided to go with conventionally powered carriers for the rest of the 2020s (2), the introduction of its first nuclear-powered aircraft carriers will be delayed until the mid-2030s at least. The delay will give the PLAN some additional time to incorporate advanced features into the Type 004.

**Design Notes:**

**Propulsion:** Magnetohydrodynamic drives with solid-state cooled superconductors should be available by the time the Type 004 is available for commission (1). MHD thrusters have no moving parts and are thus extremely quiet.

Both the reactors and steam turbines will have thermovoltaic power recovery units, significantly increasing the efficiency of the ship’s powerplant.

**Stealth:** Due to its advanced propulsion systems, the Type 004 will be an unusually quiet ship for its size. To take advantage of its acoustic characteristics, each deck will be rafted in the same manner as a submarine, and the areas of the ship below the water line will be coated in active anechoic tiling (1).

Although these measures may not seem necessary, even halving the ship’s radar and acoustic signatures will substantially reduce the range at which enemy forces can detect the ship.

**Sensors:** While the Type 004 will have a fairly standard radar suite for a ship of its size and role, the low-noise propulsion system will permit the installation of an active and passive sonar suite. This will substantially improve the ship’s defenses against enemy submarines.

**Air Wing:** The Type 004 will embark a mix of 5th and 6th-generation fighters, utility planes, helicopters, and drones. There will be no provisions to carry J-15s, which will remain in service aboard the 003 class carriers.

Production: There will be significant expansion in both drydock space and nuclear reactor production capacity over the next 15 years, so that 2 carriers can be commissioned per year by 2040.

**Specifications (Type 004 CVN):**

**Length:** 337m

**Beam:** 41m (waterline)

**Draft:** 11m

**Displacement:** 110,000 tons

**Complement:** \~4,200

**Propulsion:** 2x PWR nuclear reactors, HEU fuel (800 MWth), 4x steam turbines with thermovoltaic recovery, with integrated electric propulsion, 4x magnetohydrodynamic thrusters with solid-state cooling.

**Electricity Available:** 650 MWe (split between propulsion and shipboard usage)**Maximum Speed:** 35+ knots

**Elevators:** 3x elevators (1 port, 2 starboard)

**Catapults:** 4x EMALS catapults

Production: There will be significant expansion in both drydock space and nuclear reactor production capacity over the next 15 years so that 2 carriers can be commissioned per year by 2040.

**Armament:**

\-Mounts for CIWS and point defense missiles.

\-Standard decoy system (similar to other PLAN ships)

\-Provisions for lasers later on.

**Sensors:**

\-Standard phased array radar suite (similar to larger PLAN surface combatants)

\-Standard phased array sonar suite (see notes)

**Price:** $13.5 billion

**Production:** 1 per year from 2035-2040, 2 per year from 2040-2050, 25 in total

**Future Plans:** Depending on research progress, the last 5 ships in this class (post-2045) may have fusion reactors instead of fission reactors.

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(1): Refer to the Type 042 SSK

(2): The ship under construction in the link below looks identical to the Fujian, it’s probably conventionally powered.[https://www.drrobertfrew.com/china-fourth-aircraft-carrier/](https://www.drrobertfrew.com/china-fourth-aircraft-carrier/)

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