055 DDG Large Destroyer Thread

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Jeff Head said:
The three launches from the rear Burke occurred in about a space of just under two seconds. The two from the aft group happened within a second with the one forward coming right on their heals.

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There are other videos out there with even more...but suffice it to say...the system is made to engage multiple targets in a saturation attack, and getting off two missiles at each as quickly as possible so as to be in a position to follow up if necessary.

And with cooperative controls, it can do that from multiple vessels with control being able to maximize the magazine usage.

Like the did here, launching the fourth from the Burke in the foreground. All four missiles were launched within about to seconds.
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Maazing ! Yes Sir and you give proof for doubters... confirm i have say :cool:
 
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I don't think the structures on its hull are inlets as suggested. Those on 056's hull, enclosed smokestacks & under the bridge, as well as on C28A seem to be supported flat panels with space between them and the hull. 055's are complete fully enclosed structures and seem to be arrays.

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The Renhai certainly has a very interesting exhaust set up.
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The exhaust should still be within the enclosed smoke stacks, and the intakes and vents should be closeby and not on the sides of the hull, like on 052B,C,D (their air intakes is in the lower structure right in front of the stack which forms that ugly gap).

The structures under the bridge wings and the sides of the hangar are fully enclosed, indicating that they're arrays of some sort, like ECM or Metric-wave radars as others suggested. If they are hull side intakes/inlets, why they use this setup that's only on 056 and export ships and not on 054a and the 052, and designed unnecessarily more RCS penalising?
 
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A.Man said:
View attachment 40111 055 VS 052D
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As by78 said, this is clearly the mockup from Wuhan, and we have seen this exact CGI before in this very thread even. So really it provides no evidence either way.

Tyloe said:
The exhaust should still be within the enclosed smoke stacks, and the intakes and vents should be closeby and not on the sides of the hull, like on 052B,C,D (their air intakes is in the lower structure right in front of the stack which forms that ugly gap).
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The exhaust stacks are marked by the X covers. The location of the forward intake is still up for debate but like I said that big gaping hole going straight down is certainly a candidate, though it seems strange to place it right next to the forward exhaust stack.

Tyloe said:
The structures under the bridge wings and the sides of the hangar are fully enclosed, indicating that they're arrays of some sort, like ECM or Metric-wave radars as others suggested. If they are hull side intakes/inlets, why they use this setup that's only on 056 and export ships and not on 054a and the 052, and designed unnecessarily more RCS penalising?
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Yeah I think those panels are definitely not ventilation-related at this point, especially after high resolution photos show no evidence of any gap between the plates and the hull.

I think metric-wave radar is unlikely because it has no panels facing bow and stern, and a radar that only covers half the sky is no radar at all. ECM is a possibility, though ideally that should cover 360 degrees as well, and there are other candidates for ECM on the 055 like the mast and bridge wing panels. Given that previous ECM systems on board PLAN ships only covered port and starboard, these big panels could conceivably be ECM-related. Or they could represent a completely new function that has not been present on previous PLAN ships.
 
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