054/A FFG Thread II

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Totoro

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Yep, looks pretty much the same to me. I've no idea what the arrow and the question mark are pointing to there...
 
crobato

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The one on the back there with the arrow is pointing seems a little different but its covered by canvass. Personally I think its one of the illuminators.

What's really interesting is the thing on the left side that's being hoisted up the crane. Its the VLS.
 
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kickars

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crobato said:
What's really interesting is the thing on the left side that's being hoisted up the crane. Its the VLS.
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It actually shows there are 8 tubes in line between the VLS cage/frame (16 tubes in that pic).

We all know there are only 32 cells (hatches) on 54A, which mean there is only 4 cells (hatches) in line between the VLS frame, and 8 lines of cells (hatches) in total:4*8=32.

So from this pic it shows in each cell (under each hatch) there are 4 missile tubes... Am I right? Is HHQ-16 really that small? 128 missiles in total? Can't be right?! But the pic shows so clearly!:confused:
 
tphuang

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crobato said:
I think 16 x 4 = 64.

Seriously I think this one needs to be counted from above. I cannot deny that that looks like a VLS with a row of 16 tubes.
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from this far out, I think it looks too wide for the beam of 054A, but that's just my opinion.
 
Gollevainen

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If I would see that thing alone, taken off context, I would say it's a freight container. They often have waveish pattern in the exterior walls which from this distance may easily look like it's a rack of cylinders tied together like a VLS...

But I agree with Tphuang, it looks too big. It's not the wide but the lenght of it as in 054A the VLS is in lognitual position towards the bow. That thing looks too lenghty to be able to be fitted for the bow of 054A and this new ship doesen't appear to have anyway longer bow than the earlier two 054As. But I learned from that last time we speculated on hazy pics of possiple VLS for this shipclass to not make any statements..;)....As far as I'm concerned it may well be a container or VLS rack...who knows...
 
tphuang

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some new photos from daytime, basically proving my assessment that the bridge looks different is wrong. Anyhow, here are the photos.
054ahp3dec15rb2.jpg

054ahp3dec152eh2.jpg
 
Roger604

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So how long did it take to build this Type 054? 6-months in total?

How many can HP build at the same time? Two (for 4 per year)?

And is there nothing new from Shanghai?
 
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