052C/052D Class Destroyers

Lethe said:

Only 11 Ticos are retiring in 2020s, the other 11 are being upgraded to serve into 2030s (lol).

At USN's new standard retirement age of 35 years (invented under the Trump administration, up from 33 years), only 7 Burkes will retire in the 2020s too.

Retirements will be matched by induction of new destroyers, there will no shrinkage in fleet size or capability.

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Jura said:

as far as I understand the tweet

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Type 052C pennant number

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is in Pakistan:

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Jura said:

in the context of this discussion (especially
#2247 Lethe, Thursday at 6:52 PM
and
#2265 Lethe, Yesterday at 1:06 PM
followed by my the question inside
#2268 Jura, Yesterday at 7:02 PM), does this:
Yesterday at 10:09 PM

imply 18 (eighteen) Flight-III Burkes will be built until the end of 2020s?

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Lethe said:

The planned DDG-51 build rate is 2-3 ships per year. The exact numbers are up in the air because plans change all the time (see the recent change from 308 to 355-ship requirement) and those plans may or may not be realistic in the first place. But even winding the retirement age back to 33 years and building only 2 DDG-51s per year, there will be no significant loss of numbers or capability.

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by78 said:

A scale model of the H/PJ38 gun. Not entirely sure of its provenance or accuracy.

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by78 said:

A scale model of the H/PJ38 gun. Not entirely sure of its provenance or accuracy.

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by78 said:

A scale model of the H/PJ38 gun. Not entirely sure of its provenance or accuracy.

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Richard Santos said:

The below deck portion of the model seems to be held together by tape.

Several aspect of the Chinese gun seems odd.

1. There seems to be more facets than necessary on the gun house. The sides do not incline inward in conformance to the slope of typical superstructure on modern Chinese warships. This increases the reflective hotspots from the gun house and reduce its and the ship’s stealthiness.

2. The prominent exposed recoil cylinder and recouperator cylinder also worsen the radar reflectivity of the mount. Also, these cylinders sees larger and more prominent than in most other contemporary gun mounts. Many modern mounts are able to House these entirely behind the Mantlet. I am somewhat surprised the Chinese didn’t try to reduce the side of these cylinders, or House their exposed parts in a more radar stealthy shroud.

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