CCTV News:A breakthrough in China’s key technology enables the aircraft carrier to be equipped with the most advanced carrier-based aircraft electromagnetic catapult — — Such a message came from Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post on November 1st. What does the Hong Kong media mean by this key breakthrough? Once the electromagnetic ejection system is installed, what does it mean for domestic aircraft carriers?
"Breakthrough in power technology will enable China’s second domestic aircraft carrier to be equipped with the most advanced ejection system" — — On November 1st, such a report published on the website of South China Morning Post, an English-language media in Hong Kong, triggered a heated discussion. The article quoted sources as saying that the technological breakthrough in ship propulsion system provided the possibility that China’s second domestic aircraft carrier could also install the most advanced carrier-based aircraft ejection system — — Electromagnetic catapult.
From a global perspective, there are currently three main carrier-based aircraft ejection technologies: the active carriers in China and Russia all use conventional power, and the carrier-based aircraft also take off by sliding jump; Ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers in the United States and the only aircraft carrier in active service in France, Charles de Gaulle, use nuclear power, while the carrier aircraft takes off with the help of steam catapults. At present, the most advanced electromagnetic catapult is only used by the Ford, which has just served in the US Navy. The ship also uses nuclear power — — Therefore, the premise of aircraft carrier equipped with electromagnetic ejection system is to use nuclear power, which seems to be a mindset of the outside world.
So, what technology can make China’s aircraft carrier achieve the path transcendence? The South China Morning Post reported that this major breakthrough is a technology called "Ship Integrated Electric Propulsion System".
In particular, the Hong Kong media pointed out that the breakthrough in this technology was made by the team led by Ma Weiming, academician of China Academy of Engineering and director of the Institute of Power Electronics of Naval University of Engineering — — In fact, it is not the first time that domestic and foreign media have paid so much attention to China’s integrated electric propulsion technology, especially the research results of Ma Weiming’s team.
Ma Weiming, director of the Institute of Power Electronics of Naval University of Engineering, said,These two won the first prize, and this one also won the first prize. This is what I said because of these two technologies. Our team’s first world-leading project is ahead of the United States, and the United States also followed this route.