003 aircraft carrier technology takes a big step towards the 'aircraft carrier dream'

The Type 003 aircraft carrier, like the H-20, may appear tall and powerful, but fundamentally it is just a weapon delivery platform. Their combat effectiveness does not depend on themselves, but on the weapons integrated with them. The weapon of the Type 003 aircraft carrier is the carrier based aircraft it carries. As long as the carrier based aircraft are powerful enough, they use conventional power and have no difference in combat effectiveness compared to nuclear powered aircraft carriers.

If carrier based fifth generation aircraft solve the quality problem of weapons used in aircraft carriers, then the full deck attack and delivery capability solves the quantity problem. From the currently available information, the flight deck area of the Type 003 aircraft carrier exceeds that of the Nimitz class and reaches the level of the Ford class 19000 square meters. It also uses very advanced medium voltage DC electromagnetic catapults and two large elevators that can lift two J-15s at once.