056 class FFL/corvette

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kwaigonegin

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Jeff Head said:
Thanks.

I have been looking for a much closer and more detailed pic of this weapon system.

It looks like a very good close in defensive system. Proabably not too good againt aircraft or missiles...but certainly against small craft or FACs that come in close. Great for anti piracy, anti-terror, anti-drug, etc. I would have made the barrell longer for the positives that brings, but it is probably not needed given the missions this craft will preform anyway.

Very similar in form and function to the automated version of the US Mk-38 system.
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Actually looks more like the Oto Melara Hitrole. I wonder what caliber that gun is though. Looks more like 12.7mm than 25 mm to me especially with the woman there for comparison.
 
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A.Man

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The 3rd 056 of Hudong, or the 10th of the total:

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asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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Great start on this corvette that's 10 units we have seen in little over 9 months

A this rate we could see 12 units a year, within 2 years that's 2015 we will have easily 36 of these units

So now I'm thinking if each Vessal has a sailor complement of 50-75 that means more than 2,000 sailors needing trained for a modern warship in under 3 years!!'

That's the entire equivalent of a aircrafts carrier sized of Liaoning
 
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antiterror13

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asif iqbal said:
Great start on this corvette that's 10 units we have seen in little over 9 months

A this rate we could see 12 units a year, within 2 years that's 2015 we will have easily 36 of these units

So now I'm thinking if each Vessal has a sailor complement of 50-75 that means more than 2,000 sailors needing trained for a modern warship in under 3 years!!'

That's the entire equivalent of a aircrafts carrier sized of Liaoning
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you may be right Asif. 36 corvettes in 3 years is just an amazing achievement, no matter how you look at that. If it cost PLAN roughly $125M (including everything, radar, weapons, battle systems, etc) .. it would just cost PLAN roughly $1.5B a year ... nothing really. Remember, PLA would always get much cheaper price (compared to export price), export price for this baby would be roughly $150M

Regarding sailors .. PLA is famous in excellent training system and also unlimited resources available (money and people who desperately want to join PLAN)
 
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joshuatree

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asif iqbal said:
Great start on this corvette that's 10 units we have seen in little over 9 months

A this rate we could see 12 units a year, within 2 years that's 2015 we will have easily 36 of these units

So now I'm thinking if each Vessal has a sailor complement of 50-75 that means more than 2,000 sailors needing trained for a modern warship in under 3 years!!'

That's the entire equivalent of a aircrafts carrier sized of Liaoning
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Some of that manpower requirement would be offset by existing crews from vessels that will be phased out like the 037s. So that should help provide each new crew for these vessels with some experienced sailors intermixed.
 
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A.Man

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joshuatree said:
Some of that manpower requirement would be offset by existing crews from vessels that will be phased out like the 037s. So that should help provide each new crew for these vessels with some experienced sailors intermixed.
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Actually a 037 subchaser requires more manpowers than a 056 light frigate.
 
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A.Man

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So far, the best guess on the internet for the numbers:


HD 1# 582
HD 2# 583
HD 3# 586

HP 1# 596
HP 2# 597
HP 3# 587


WC 1# 584
WC 2# 585

LN 1# 580
LN 2# 581
 
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