056 class FFL/corvette

luhai said:

In the west eyes of what a Navy does, namely offensive roles, this is true. However, in the history of China. The navy's job is basically stop or deter a enemy amphibious landing, and when strong escort troop transports. It is an independent force, but it was not a major force. And it never adjunct to the army. If the navy did its job, the army don't even have to fight, at least with sea borne enemies. This idea got planted in western literature due to the rather poor translation of People Liberation Army Navy. Jun in Chinese which any sort of military force, not just army.

The navy has made a rather nice documentary for it's 60 anniversary. It's a good watch.

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China choose people war out of necessity. Realizing that she don't have the mean to confront head on the western military.
Plus the pedigree of PLA is of revolutionary army fighting against the larger better equipped foe. Mao drill down this doctrine in Zhunyi conference and dethrone the Comintern appointed Otto Bauer which subsequent event prove the correctness of Mao approach.

I am well converse with Chinese history.In fact my hero is Zhang Chengong. But we are talking about China in 80's after coming out from the dark age of Cultural revolution .Liu Huaqing who is credited with modernizing the Navy is in fact and Army general seconded to the navy
CMC is dominated by the army and until recently no navy or airforce general is admitted to the CMC

WC N°3

HP N°3 begins sea trials

WC it's the first for this year and 3rd overall, I expect the 4th this year likely in September

Also we should see two launches this year from LN, both in the second half of this year

And HD and HP should also manage 2 each this this year, that's four units

So overall I expect by end of 2013 a total of 7 more launches, that would mean 20 x Type 056 corvettes launched, I would also estimate 3 further commissionings to give a total of 10 units by end of this year, full pace construction should continue into 2014 and part of 2015

584梅州 commission

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I think 584 is a good lesson for us here. A lot of people assumed it was already commissioned based on the fact that it has been sailing around a lot and appearing at naval bases, but it wasn't commissioned until today. Going forward, let's wait for actual proof that the ship is commissioned first before we say it's commissioned.

tphuang said:

I think 584 is a good lesson for us here. A lot of people assumed it was already commissioned based on the fact that it has been sailing around a lot and appearing at naval bases, but it wasn't commissioned until today. Going forward, let's wait for actual proof that the ship is commissioned first before we say it's commissioned.

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Is there PCU (Pre-Commissioned Unit) number for PLAN ship un-commissioned?

Hendrik_2000 said:

.In fact my hero is Zhang Chengong.

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Excuse me (I know it is OT here...) ... But I am very interested in Chinese History too... But who is Zhang Chengong? Do you mean Zheng Chenggong?

ladioussupp said:

Is there PCU (Pre-Commissioned Unit) number for PLAN ship un-commissioned?

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i'm not sure what you are saying. But we all know that these ships will be commissioned, but we often jump the gun in concluding on when the ship is already that way. For example, 151 has looked to be ready to commission for a long time now, but PLAN has deemed not so.

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