052/052B Class Destroyers

FarkTypeSoldier

FarkTypeSoldier

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re: PLAN Type 052 Class Destroyer

kwaigonegin said:
Dude should've joined the Army instead of the Marines. ;)

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:) lets better get on the topic of 052 series before the "Stay on topic" appears :)
 
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Franklin

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re: PLAN Type 052 Class Destroyer

Since we haven't seen any ceremony for the commissioning of 151 Zhengzhou we can presume that she is not commissioned yet. They even have photo's and video of the commissioning of a Type 056!
 
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steve_rolfe

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re: PLAN Type 052 Class Destroyer

Franklin said:
Since we haven't seen any ceremony for the commissioning of 151 Zhengzhou we can presume that she is not commissioned yet. They even have photo's and video of the commissioning of a Type 056!
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True.....havnt seen anything official about commissioning of 151..........but someone has added a date of the 19th Sept 2013 to this vessel being commissioned on the 'WIKI' site!
 
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adeptitus

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re: PLAN Type 052 Class Destroyer

kwaigonegin said:
not to get OT but I'm curious as to why is PLAN leadership always self deprecating... while what he said is probably true I just don't see the purpose of intentionally speaking negative about what I think is a tremendous achievement.
For once I like them to say, you know this ship is awesome and it kicks ass! period! .. instead it's always along the lines of ... yeahh it's ok but you know compare to AB or other ships it sucks and kinda lacking this that and the other. WTH.
I'm sure whatever the ship is lacking the intelligence community will know about it sooner or later. There's no reason to feign false humility.
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China needs to upgrade its military strength, papers say, as the US starts testing its latest aircraft carrier.

The US Navy conducted float tests of the USS Gerald R. Ford on 11 October and its sea trials are likely to begin in 2016, reports say.

"USS Ford is bound to pose a huge impact on the existing Chinese naval equipment," Chen Hu, executive editor of a Chinese military magazine, told the Wen Wei Po, adding that the "Chinese aircraft carrier technology is currently 30 years behind that of the US".

"Ford is a substantial leap forward in US military's combat capabilities at sea," Yi Zhuo, a Chinese naval expert, tells the paper.

Xinhua news agency says "a gap does exist between China's aircraft carrier compared to the USS Ford aircraft carrier".

"On the topic of carriers itself, the Chinese navy is a 'latecomer', our first combat aircraft carrier is still in the process of formation, and the United States has entered a very mature stage as the world's largest aircraft carrier manufacturer and user. America is constantly upgrading the latest aircraft technology threshold," it adds.

The Huanqiu Shibao, a newspaper affiliated with The People's Daily group, says "the USS Ford was successfully floated on 11 October in Newport News, Virginia shipyard" and" is regarded as the world's most powerful aircraft carrier".

"As the first of a new generation of aircraft carriers, USS Ford is unmatched whether in terms of overall technology or scale... USS Ford will be the benchmark for the Chinese pursuit of aircraft carrier technology," it adds.

The paper further says: "China must upgrade its capabilities based on existing equipment, develop strategic thinking and an effective tactical plan to deal with the US military... For only by constantly enhancing our own strength, will we achieve a new type of China-US relations."


I'd point you to the highlighted parts above. Recognizing that you're behind (in need of improvement and advancement) and using the newest and most powerful carrier in the world as a benchmark to compare your progress against, does not suggest self-depreciation.

It's better to be a Crouching Tiger than a Paper Tiger.
 
FarkTypeSoldier

FarkTypeSoldier

Junior Member
re: PLAN Type 052 Class Destroyer

Hyperwarp said:
=GT posted this @ CDF titled 'Passing through Strait of Magellan'
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Hi to add on some more photos, taken from no.170's perspective:

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Braving the waves


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Arriving in Chile's port


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Welcoming the ships by Chilean Military Band​

The rest of the photos you all seen it earlier... :)
 
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chuck731

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re: PLAN Type 052 Class Destroyer

Has the PLAN undertaken a circumnavigation yet? Now that they've sent warships to the Atlantic by both easterly and westerly direction, they are a stone's throw from closing the loop and completing a circumnavigation. I believed the Qin dynasty in its final years did send a Chinese flotilla around the world.
 
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