Are those from the Zhanjiang exercise ealier this year or new?Two more images of the large landing barges.
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On a separate note, I made a composite image to show scale. My calculations may be off but if we assume the ramp is, as reported by the press, approximately 35 to 36 meters wide on the inside, then the base foot itself if 1.75 meters from the bottom just to its first beveled edge. If that is correct, then this is roughly what an adult male would look like standing in front of it.Two more images of the large landing barges.
by78
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According to this , three more large landing barges are under construction at Guangzhou shipyard. The images are very blurry, so I can't verify the claim, but posting it here for documentation purposes.
Satellite images of the large landing barges from earlier this month:
Satellite images of the large landing barges from earlier this month:
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Do we know apart how long in length it is for the one connecting to the beach?
I respectfully submit that your calculations and/or assumptions are off. Below is one of the photos from by @HailingTX20, showing a person standing a fair distance away, between the end of the ramp and the vessel's bow. Even at that distance, the person appears considerably taller than your hypothetical figure standing next to the ramp end.
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Well... damnit... I will look over my work when I have the time and try to figure out how I could be so incredibly off.
lcloo
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Try to figure out the general width of a truck, and the width of the dual vehicle passage way on the bridge. That will make your scale more realistic.
On the othe hand, the passageway might be just wide enough for just one large truck, tank, radar carrier. bridge layer, SAM carrier, we need clear photo to verify.
Okay, I found out exactly where I went so wrong with my last human-for-scale composite, and it was not math, just lazyness/sloppiness/giddyness on my part because I had an idea and wanted to get it out to the world before I went to sleep.
First, let me provide my source for the vessel dimensions, a French site called Naval News ().
Because I was reading the article with the specific intention of finding "ramp width" locked firmly in mind, when my eyes scanned over the vessel's estimated width of 35 meters, I just ran with it as the ramp width and started crunching numbers without even considering how rediculous my conclusions were.
I mean, truly, it's like I was making a photoshop for a car commercial and I put a happy family standing in front of the car where the people are the size of toy action figures. That was very sloppy and I feel so ashamed.
The article estimated 35 meters wide for the vessel, and the pictures clearly show that the ramp itself is a fraction of that.
Anyway, I did some new calculations last night (for as much as you can trust them), double checked my own work again after a good night's rest, and am now confident this new picture is more accurate.
Here is my process:
Step 1: Ramp scale
- I took a photo of one of the vessels from Twitter which, in the referenced Naval News article is described as being 35 meters wide. Using an image scale measuring app, I measured the vessel between two large beams to make sure my measurement was straight, and took that unit as "1".
- My next measurement is of the inner width of what I can see of the ramp in its elevated position, which came out as "0.2" after several attempts.
- Some simple math shows 35x0.2=7, or seven meters.
- I then used the same app to measure photo of the ramp in its lowered position on the beach, where I first measured the inner width of the ramp as "1" and then measured the ramp foot, which repeatedly came out to "0.05."
- The same math, 7x0.05=35, or 35 centimeters. So the ramp foot from botton to first beveled edge is 35 centimeters in height.
- I overlaid a grid on that photo, making sure the grid squares aligned with the ramp foot bottom to its first beveled edge, so each square can be assumed to be 35 centimeters in height.
- Since 175 centimeters is a reasonably common height for a man in northern China, 175/35=5, so exactly five grid squares then.
- After making sure my model (I have named him 高富帅) was the right size, I just moved him to look like he's standing in front of the foot instead of inside of it, and there you have it.
This is obviously not 100% accurate, as at any stage in the process perspective and depth in the 3D environment can cause distortions when I used a 2D scale measuring tool, and if one measurement is off from one image, or if any of the initial assumptions are wrong, such as the actual total vessel width, then everything else will be wrong too.
Feel free to make fun of me for this!
