052C/052D Class Destroyers

Blitzo

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Franklin said:
Is China still importing the diesel engines for these ships from Germany ? Or have they indiginized those as well.
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Are you talking about diesels for 052D? I'm pretty sure the powerplants for all of their surface warships are produced indigenously now (destroyers, frigates, corvettes, LPD, LST, carrier).

In fact I can't think of any current indigenous in-production naval ship that is using imported powerplants.
 
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The diesel engines are mostly locally licensed produced version of European designs. There is basically no restriction for power plant production.
 
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delft

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Diesel engines for ships are rarely exported. An extreme example is Sulzer in Switzerland. How would you go about to build a diesel engine of so many hundreds or even thousand of tons to export it to some shipyard on the other side of the world.
But recently we saw a huge Chinese diesel engine on more than a hundred wheels being transported to a power plant in Pakistan. That's the same class of engine.
 
MwRYum

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delft said:
Diesel engines for ships are rarely exported. An extreme example is Sulzer in Switzerland. How would you go about to build a diesel engine of so many hundreds or even thousand of tons to export it to some shipyard on the other side of the world.
But recently we saw a huge Chinese diesel engine on more than a hundred wheels being transported to a power plant in Pakistan. That's the same class of engine.
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That's because Pakisan lack that kind of industrial power to fabricate such engine block themselves.
 
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davidau

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052D 130mm gun live-firing......

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Iron Man

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winton said:
Is that a muzzle break on this gun I see?

Why would they need one? The noise that thing would generate could deafen those nearby.
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Army artillery pieces almost invariably use muzzle brakes (it's brakes not breaks) and there are always loaders standing nearby, so the sound is obviously not deafening as long as you are using adequate hearing protection.
 
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