asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
re: PLAN Type 052 Class Destroyer
It will be sitting outside for attest 12 momths if it doesn't go to the empty hallway
But as always with PLAN you can never know, for example the time between C5 and D1 was 8 months and time between C6 and D2 was even faster, that is 6 months!! And that's going from Type 052C to Type 052D, they actually went faster with a newer model
That means these hallways are very well rehearsed and equipped in DDG construction, they can if they want put the modules together in under 6 months, the D4 looks to me its on a fast track, it could in theory get launched in late Dec 2013 meaning that D5 only spends 6 months out in the yard which kind of makes sense because it's only the mid section module first appearing they still need to build the rest
They launched 7 DDG in a span of 32 months, that's one every 4 1/2 months average, I don't think PLAN has such bad foresight and logistics that they went go from 1 DDG every 4 1/2 months to 1 DDG every 12 months within a year they know exactly what they are doing, it's all planned, the hallway is empty for a reason and probably a very good one, I don't think they would keep it ideal for 12 months for nothing not after that rapid expansion, its probably under going modification
My take is Type 055 is coming and the current hallway is going all for DDG build, as a matter of fact the module for the cruiser are likely to be under construction somewhere at JNCX and we could see them soon
As of date we have identified 6 x Type 052C and 5 x Type 052D total 11 DDG, very capable high end
Plus 13 other capable DDG we know which ones they are
Plus 19-20 Type 054A and a similar number of Type 056 corvettes
I count that to be just shy of 70 warships before this year is out, and I count Type 056 as a warship, one hell of a surface force right there
It will be sitting outside for attest 12 momths if it doesn't go to the empty hallway
But as always with PLAN you can never know, for example the time between C5 and D1 was 8 months and time between C6 and D2 was even faster, that is 6 months!! And that's going from Type 052C to Type 052D, they actually went faster with a newer model
That means these hallways are very well rehearsed and equipped in DDG construction, they can if they want put the modules together in under 6 months, the D4 looks to me its on a fast track, it could in theory get launched in late Dec 2013 meaning that D5 only spends 6 months out in the yard which kind of makes sense because it's only the mid section module first appearing they still need to build the rest
They launched 7 DDG in a span of 32 months, that's one every 4 1/2 months average, I don't think PLAN has such bad foresight and logistics that they went go from 1 DDG every 4 1/2 months to 1 DDG every 12 months within a year they know exactly what they are doing, it's all planned, the hallway is empty for a reason and probably a very good one, I don't think they would keep it ideal for 12 months for nothing not after that rapid expansion, its probably under going modification
My take is Type 055 is coming and the current hallway is going all for DDG build, as a matter of fact the module for the cruiser are likely to be under construction somewhere at JNCX and we could see them soon
As of date we have identified 6 x Type 052C and 5 x Type 052D total 11 DDG, very capable high end
Plus 13 other capable DDG we know which ones they are
Plus 19-20 Type 054A and a similar number of Type 056 corvettes
I count that to be just shy of 70 warships before this year is out, and I count Type 056 as a warship, one hell of a surface force right there
