055 DDG Large Destroyer Thread

[SamuraiBlue]

It depends on the missile you are using.
With semi-active missile, you need an illuminator radar that is locked on to the target in which the missile homes into the reflected illuminator signal.
With active missile the telemetry from the long range radar will be punched into the missile. The missile will head towards the location that was punched in and turn on it's own homing distance and lock on with own radar.
With more advance active homing missile you can re-send telemetry during mid flight but basically it is all the same.
Land attack missile like cruise missile can use GPS and even image sensor terminal control.

 

[kwaigonegin]

That is a heck of a pic:

Particularly when you realize how many of these ships the CHinese are building and how quickly.

By the time the second carrier is IOC, they will have enough of each to form battle groups around both...and with several more to spare.

Of course with the next carriers to come, they will need them all.

Very modern, very capable carrier groups.

Agreed. Chinese shipbuilding industry is highly impressive by any yardstick especially considering these are not rubber stamped shoddy construction vessels but highly sophisticated modern naval warships built to international specifications and standards... at least as far as I’m aware.
These are not Walmart toy quality play things many folks think them to be.

 

[Tam]

Agreed. Chinese shipbuilding industry is highly impressive by any yardstick especially considering these are not rubber stamped shoddy construction vessels but highly sophisticated modern naval warships built to international specifications and standards... at least as far as I’m aware.
These are not Walmart toy quality play things many folks think them to be.

Chinese shipbuilding industry is already number one in the world in terms of orders and gross tonnage. That would give you a lot of leverage in building a world class navy. State of the art warships, including carriers, are also a great way to advertise for the ship building industry. CSIC and CSSC brings models of existing warships to expos to remind would be customers that they are capable of building high end ships. So all these have a way of financially paying off by themselves.

 

[Iron Man]

I'm on board that HQ-9B and its successors might likely be ARH seekers, and doesn't need a shipboard C or X-band for target illumination. The higher frequency edge of the S-band combined with high PRF would be accurate enough to bring the missile into the catch basket of the active seeker. C-band is needed for target illumination for homing, the SARH or TVM HQ-9 doesn't support X-bands anyway. Land based HQ-9 mobile station is all C-band, which means aside from the initial detection by a separate long wave radar, this means track while scan, target priority for engagement, and target illumination (CWI) are all done by the same panel on C-band. In the case if the missile is an active seeker, the last stage is omitted. There is likely a separate search and detect mode in case if the separate search radar is not present, disabled or destroyed.

"HHQ-9B" is the alleged SARH + IR version on the 052D (analogous to SM-2MR/IIIB), so "HHQ-9C" would be the ARH iteration, if there even is one. A new version of this missile could also be made to work with X-band, especially if the 055's mast-top panel is an X-band array as is commonly believed, with the main "346B" possibly being comprised entirely of S-band T/R modules.

 

[nicky]

somewhat confusing pic
basin too shallow, passage too narrow and still blocked by floodgate ...
what's the plan?

 

[Totoro]

When was this image taken? Can't see the carrier module in it. Though, of course, the hangar structure thingy may be interfering with the view. Which brings me to another question - do they really intend to cover the carrier assembly with such a structure? After Dalian carrier was built in plain sight and after pretty much every US carrier is built in plain sight?

Anyway, I believe the plan is to dredge the basin even more in the future year or so and construct a channel with a new floodgate connecting into the sea.

 

[DaTang cavalry]

somewhat confusing pic
basin too shallow, passage too narrow and still blocked by floodgate ...
what's the plan?

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Sources said that there were many fanboys used personal small UAV around JNCX to take photos, I think they will get trouble later.

 

[PanAsian]

Another good comparison of between a 055 and 052D, taken at Shanghai...

Is that a lengthened or non-lengthened 052D?

 

[Blitzo]

Is that a lengthened or non-lengthened 052D?

Normal non lengthened. The lengthened one was only recently launched and remains in the fitting out basin

 

[kriss]

Sources said that there were many fanboys used personal small UAV around JNCX to take photos, I think they will get trouble later.

Isn't all commercial drone on the market have built-in no fly zone restriction in their program？ Especially after all the drone fly into airport incidents.