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chuck731

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Jeff Head said:
That is the best picture yet showing the difference between the bridges. Thanks, PanA!

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I don't think there is functionally or structurally significant difference. The only certain difference seem to be there is now a knee high bulwurk around the roof deck above the navigation bridge where previously there was only railings. You can tell the overhead height of the navigation bridge hasn't change much, may be raised by a foot, by the signal lamp on the starboard side on the roof the the navigation bridge. The lamp, operated by a sailor standing on the roof of the navigation bridge, remains at basically the same distance above the navigation bridge windows, thus implying the sailor would be standing at much the same level, give or take a foot, above navigation bridge as before.

I suspect the bulwurk may have been added simply to deflect wind and spray and improve the working condition for the sailors operating the signal lamp or whatever the other equipment on the navigation bridge roof that may need tending to during rough weather or high wind.

I suspect for those earlier ships without the bulwurk, you will eventually see either bulwurk installed during refit, or canvas dodgers fitted to the railings, to help shield the space against wind and spray. These are small ships and spray over the bow drenching the roof of the bridge would be commonplace occurances.
 
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asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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585 style bridges looks much better and modern 586 looks like a 1980s ship!

585 looks like its bridge section is more slopped whereas 586 looks too square
 
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chuck731 said:
I don't think there is functionally or structurally significant difference. The only certain difference seem to be there is now a knee high bulwurk around the roof deck above the navigation bridge where previously there was only railings. You can tell the overhead height of the navigation bridge hasn't change much, may be raised by a foot, by the signal lamp on the starboard side on the roof the the navigation bridge. The lamp, operated by a sailor standing on the roof of the navigation bridge, remains at basically the same distance above the navigation bridge windows, thus implying the sailor would be standing at much the same level, give or take a foot, above navigation bridge as before.

I suspect the bulwurk may have been added simply to deflect wind and spray and improve the working condition for the sailors operating the signal lamp or whatever the other equipment on the navigation bridge roof that may need tending to during rough weather or high wind.

I suspect for those earlier ships without the bulwurk, you will eventually see either bulwurk installed during refit, or canvas dodgers fitted to the railings, to help shield the space against wind and spray. These are small ships and spray over the bow drenching the roof of the bridge would be commonplace occurances.
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Chuck, based on these pictures your observation is sound however if you look at the aerial pictures from post #1982 for example you'll noticed that the roof of the bridge extends fruther up in height so it may not just be a solid covering where the railings use to be. Possibly the actual ceiling height is increase or a foot or two has been raised all together.

Also the bridge aside there has been some changes to the base of the forward mast as well as it tapers into the roof.
 
Jeff Head

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kwaigonegin said:
Possibly the actual ceiling height is increase or a foot or two has been raised all together.

Also the bridge aside there has been some changes to the base of the forward mast as well as it tapers into the roof.
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Agreed. In fact in that picture...and in the head-on one...it seems clear that there are safety railing on the new roof itself. The entire roof of the navigation bridge (whether is corresponds to the ceiling inside, I cannot say) has clearly been raised a foot and a half or two all the way back to the mast.
 
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joshuatree

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Jeff Head said:
Agreed. In fact in that picture...and in the head-on one...it seems clear that there are safety railing on the new roof itself. The entire roof of the navigation bridge (whether is corresponds to the ceiling inside, I cannot say) has clearly been raised a foot and a half or two all the way back to the mast.
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There's been discussion maybe this modification to the bridge is from crew feedback. But maybe this is simply additional room needed for any hardware components affiliated with the new TAS/VDS? Maybe the processor/storage for the TAS/VDS?
 
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joshuatree said:
There's been discussion maybe this modification to the bridge is from crew feedback. But maybe this is simply additional room needed for any hardware components affiliated with the new TAS/VDS? Maybe the processor/storage for the TAS/VDS?
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All good potential reasons for the change. Whatever the reason, you can bet it is something that adds/improves functionality to the vessel in some form sought out by the PLAN.
 
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MwRYum

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joshuatree said:
There's been discussion maybe this modification to the bridge is from crew feedback. But maybe this is simply additional room needed for any hardware components affiliated with the new TAS/VDS? Maybe the processor/storage for the TAS/VDS?
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We'll soon find out if this is just for the new variant or as an improvement to be implemented on the baseline model as well. Given the Huangpu shipyard situated at an area that from the outside can see the constructions in better details, should new boats of this variant also in production at Huangpu we can then tell exactly what kind of change has been implemented.
 
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