The 055 looks to be about the cross the wake of the container ship, so the aspect angle of the container ship and the 055 would be significantly different. I would estimate the camera is roughly 30 degrees forward of the beam of the 055, but 60 degrees abaft the beam of the container ship. The difference in aspect angle distorts the relative apparent length of the containers to the apparent length of the 055’s fore deck. So it is useless for range assessment. A better measure is the height the railings on the deck of the two ships. It would appear the container ship is roughly 1.25 times further from the camera than the 055.
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I wonder why the PLAN didn't or couldn't add an extra row of VLS at the rear launch area. Seems like an easy thing to do.
Wonder whether the decision was political? To prevent an arms race?
This vessel should have alot of designed in potential for growth. What do you think guys?
Wonder whether the decision was political? To prevent an arms race?
This vessel should have alot of designed in potential for growth. What do you think guys?
Warship isn't an empty bottle.
Fitted for but not with
Lol I hope you're being sarcastic. Space and weight distribution/management is one of the biggest challenges of building warships. Why do you think the US navy is having such a hard time sticking meaningful armaments onto the LCS structure.
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the USN decided to operate unarmed scrap called LCSs to feed two shipyards, and the USN has been offered "meaningful armaments on the LCS structure" rather long time ago:
Jan 17, 2019
Jan 30, 2016
by now the brochure is gone,
the image hosting site I had used is gone, but found the picture on my external disc hahaha:
why bother?
it's the configuration the Pentagon could've ordered almost a decade ago, and now it looks like it's offered again:
. LCS with lethality and survivability upgrades
so? tell me why the Pentagon operates unarmed LCSs instead
I've been following this LCS circus for years, I've read most of texts on it available in Internet, chest-thumping, detractors, official, whatever,
and I just don't know
if you want, google for instance
'lcs derivative for saudi arabia'
to see what the USN LCSs could've been and to realize how the Pentagon crippled its lighter surface forces
Open pages of this thread with posts around July'2018.
You'll find atleast 10 pages of discussion pertaining to this question.
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