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"Preview: Colleague Captain James Fanell USN (ret) reports on the search for the 4th PLA Navy aircraft carrier. More later.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Books, Society & Culture, Arts

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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"Preview: Colleague Captain James Fanell USN (ret) reports on the search for the 4th PLA Navy aircraft carrier. More later.
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everything secure. This is John Batchel, a conversation with Captain James Fennel, U.S. Navy

1:01.3

retired intelligence officer, about the Chinese PLA Navy planning to build a fourth carrier.

1:09.7

Not yet, but they're watching for it very carefully.

1:13.1

The third carrier is already in the fleet in testing for its launch system,

1:19.8

its electromagnetic launch system, similar to the one on Ford for the U.S. Navy.

1:26.0

A fourth carrier, Jim Reasons, is reason to believe there'll be six

1:30.6

altogether, since rotation I've learned over the years means one at sea, one in repairs, and one in

1:38.0

training. The fourth carrier, however, not yet. It's presumed, but not yet. Here's Jim Fennell. Tell us about the carriers.

1:48.8

More of this tonight. It's got contracts with the U.S. government, and they put out some commercial

1:54.5

imagery in February showing some of these bit pieces of what they estimate is possibly the fourth aircraft carrier,

2:03.7

and they have catapults lined up and some other maybe bulkheads,

2:08.7

and there's been some reporting possibly of a nuclear reactor being worked on somewhere.

2:14.3

What they don't have is kind of a firm knowledge on what the timeline is, because

2:19.7

these images of these catapult tracks have been imaged since last May of 2024 and even in

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