steve_rolfe
Junior Member
I must of missed something?...........054A (578) is this a newly commissioned ship?
054/A FFG Thread II
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I must of missed something?...........054A (578) is this a newly commissioned ship?
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Yes newly commissioned
Amazing to see this production run I remember when we were in single digits and many of us thought we will see 8,10 or 16 and now we have 24th
Will it stop now? Possibly, will we see another FFG design possibly that's the exciting phase as we don't actually know and it's what makes PLAN watching unique
Amazing to see this production run I remember when we were in single digits and many of us thought we will see 8,10 or 16 and now we have 24th
Will it stop now? Possibly, will we see another FFG design possibly that's the exciting phase as we don't actually know and it's what makes PLAN watching unique
Number is painted, but whether or not commissioned is not clear.
What if the 054A is used to serve as the backbone of the "within First Island Chain" PLAN fleet together with the 056? Are 24 054A's sufficient?
timepass
Brigadier
IMO they will build another 12 more, so each fleet would be have 3 flotillas (36 Total).
Further, we know that 056 will touch to 60 means all 3 fleets would have 5 flotillas and will complement 054As for First Island Chain, will be quite sufficient...
Opps the air pollution just hits back!
by78
General
Is it me or the pennant number location is different? It seems higher up on the bow than was the case previously.
Some are exactly there:
But others do seem a little lower:
You'd think that sort of thing was a standard ;loction measured easily on the hull.
by78
General
Some are exactly there:
But others do seem a little lower:
You'd think that sort of thing was a standard ;loction measured easily on the hull.
I believe the first photo's pennant number (577) is photoshopped. 577 belongs to the 054a+ batch (with revised bow). As far as I know, all the 054a+/++ batches seem to have the pennant number painted roughly uniformly.
I could be wrong, though, about my original observation that 579's pennant number being painted at a higher location: I looked at it some more, and now I'm not so sure.