According to this Chinese man, who was also on board the Nanning in Abu Dhabi at the time, it was not allowed to take photos inside the ship.
052C/052D Class Destroyers
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See, this is the sort of Drama that I can get behind. Actually learning a lot from this
But maybe this is all just an American Psy-Op via Cunningham's Law.
by78
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Arleigh Burkes don't have many airlocks with double doors because only a limited number of compartments and internal spaces are designed for total CBRN protection. The same is true for all other naval ships I can think of.
by78
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I think I finally understand what Xavier meant by "double watertight doors". The proper term is , and as my previous post shows, 052D in fact has airlocks as part of its CBRN/NBC defense system. What remains a mystery, though, is how Xavier doesn't recall seeing them when he undoubtedly came across them on his tour.
From Wikipedia:
So I reread Xavier's podcast transcript in light of by78's very informative posts. Some breakdowns:
What I can conclude base on his claim to have traveled from the aft to the front of the ship is that Xavier would have necessarily passed through so many watertight doors and damage control/fire fighting equipments that would be impossible to miss all. Thus his claims must be deliberate lies, unless he suffer from memory loss or visual impairment.
This is a blatant lie contradicted by video evidence.
The RHIB compartment has a single watertight door because this compartment is separated from the environment with only one layer of the roller shutter curtain. On the Arleigh Burke class the RHIB is stored externally so there are no equivalent compartments.
There does not appear to be gas tanks next to the RHIB in the video, although Xavier may have confused various cylindrical objects with gas tanks on his tour.
This is a blatant lie contradicted by video evidence.
This is a blatant lie contradicted by video evidence.
The Type 052D features pressurized controlled atmosphere but this is probably due to Xavier's ignorance rather than conscious lying.
Yeah, not a naval architect indeed.
If Xavier made it to the living quarters where the posters are located he would have past multiple damage control stations/watertight doors.
What I can conclude base on his claim to have traveled from the aft to the front of the ship is that Xavier would have necessarily passed through so many watertight doors and damage control/fire fighting equipments that would be impossible to miss all. Thus his claims must be deliberate lies, unless he suffer from memory loss or visual impairment.
Let's keep things above board.
Unless there's evidence of deliberate falsifying of information or outright lying, I think we shouldn't automatically assume malice. Hanlon's razor applies here.
For a complete novice like me, the watertight doors in these videos (with round corners, some painted brown, some white), look somewhat similar (stressing the somewhat) to the non watertight doors (with square corners, mostly painted brown); especially when compared to a western watertigher doors which are much more oval (told you I am a novice).
This is my long-winded way of saying I agree with Blitzo's advise of givng Xavier the benefit of the doubt; that Xavier may be more of a naval novice like me, despite him running a naval news site
Ciao.
Welcome to the board, Xavier!For a complete novice like me, the watertight doors in these videos (with round corners, some painted brown, some white), look somewhat similar (stressing the somewhat) to the non watertight doors (with square corners, mostly painted brown); especially when compared to a western watertigher doors which are much more oval (told you I am a novice).
This is my long-winded way of saying I agree with Blitzo's advise of givng Xavier the benefit of the doubt; that Xavier may be more of a naval novice like me, despite him running a naval news site
Ciao.