It was not just that. The engine was supposed to have a Northrop Grumman (US) manufacture heat recuperator to increase efficiency, from what I understand, and it failed miserably at high temperatures. It did not have graceful shutdown or bypass or whatever.
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It was not just that. The engine was supposed to have a Northrop Grumman (US) manufacture heat recuperator to increase efficiency, from what I understand, and it failed miserably at high temperatures. It did not have graceful shutdown or bypass or whatever.
Good that you mentioned it. But we are now going off topic, so before it goes too far, I will share my last thought on the subject.
The British defense ministry tried but failed to place the blame on Northrop Grumman. The fact is that no sub-system is capable of doing a graceful shutdown or down-turning power, regardless the type of GT, a conventional GT will burn the grid too in the faulty scenario. It is the British architecture of AC grid without enough power/energy margin (by storage) much higher than the max operational power that caused the problem. In an earlier post in another thread about China's DC grid, I had detailed the reason.
Group tour of Dalian shipyard. They look like students at some kind of maritime institute.
There is a major seamanship institute located in Dalian, with the obvious name of Dalian Maritime University.
Check from post #3774 onwards in the PLAN breaking news thread.
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Type 055 seems to have paused for now
I believe they are moving onto IEP + Railgun
I believe they are moving onto IEP + Railgun
Not sure about railgun. But they are definitely moving onto Type 055A now which should have IEP.
055 no. 2 Lhasa --- is this ship #102 --- might have been commissioned already.
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