055 DDG Large Destroyer Thread
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antiterror13
Brigadier
so 4 055s in the water now?
Huh? There are only two in the picture.after two 055 being launched at the same time recently at 2 pm 3 July 2018...another 055 just launched 15 August.. at Dalian shipyard......
at an incredibly speed...beat that!!
asif iqbal
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Fake news
2 x DL and 2 x JNCX
4 in the water
2 x DL and 2 x JNCX
4 in the water
steve_rolfe
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Those pictures are of the recent 2 055's at Dalian................their 3rd 055 is no where near to being launched yet. Who wrote this fake news??
by78
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As others have pointed out, the 3rd unit is still being assembled. You only need to go back three pages to see the modules still sitting beside the dry dock.
Anyway, here are the high-resolution versions of the photos you posted, cropped and retouched and without the Sina watermarks.
Here's a piece of friendly advice borrowed from Bltizo: if you see a photo on mil sina that you think is nice, try to find the original source rather than cross posting from Sina because their photos are of lower resolution and has their ugly watermark.
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kwaigonegin
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Impressive, 2 in water and 3rd almost done.
Other than the Zumwalt class (which terminates at 3 ships) no other country is building or launching cruiser size warships.
The closest would be Flt 3 ABs and ROKN with the Improved Sejong the Great class with Aegis Baseline 9 and full BMD capability but that's still 3 or 4 years away and smaller than the 055s.
Other than the Zumwalt class (which terminates at 3 ships) no other country is building or launching cruiser size warships.
The closest would be Flt 3 ABs and ROKN with the Improved Sejong the Great class with Aegis Baseline 9 and full BMD capability but that's still 3 or 4 years away and smaller than the 055s.
I think there's a widespread wrongful impression about the size of the 055. When the PLAN launched the 055 project, they didn't issue displacement requirements, they issued combat capability requirements and 701st had to design a ship that could satisfy them. The specs given by the PLAN were so demanding that 701st anticipated a 20,000t design to fit the sheer number of systems required to satisfy those specs. This thankfully didn't happen thanks to masterful spatial optimisation and redundancy elimination by 701st Institute's engineers.
The 055's displacement is impressive not because it's large but precisely because it's not. A mere 10,000t normal displacement for a ship with the 055's capabilities is illustrative of the extreme competency possessed by the naval architects who designed it. Let's not forget the people who designed the 052C, itself an impressive class, initially thought they needed 20,000t of displacement to satisfy the 055's requirements. Ponder how ridiculously powerful a 20,000t combatant with the technology level of the 052C would've been and realise that such a ship actually exists but only displaces 10,000t and China is building six of them simultaneously. By halving the 055's displacement without reducing the capabilities, 701st allowed China to build and operate more of those ships without devoting more resources. It is this sort of efficient use of resources that led to the West's triumph over the USSR and it is also how China intends to eventually outcompete the incumbent hegemon.
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