075 LHD thread

[Deino]

Finally a small clearer update on the second Type 075 LHD ... the paint is on!

(Image via @cycy03666 from lt.cjdby.net)

 

[Deino]

By the way ...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1246384708960882688

 

[bd popeye]

The top radar on the 075, Type 382, is the same radar you see on the Type 054A. Its certainly has aged, and the design goes back to the Soviet Navy in the Cold War, but its not any more outdated than the SPS-48 search radar still used on the Nimitz, Wasp, America and San Antonio classes. Still, those US ships are quite older even if they remain in service for years to come and, and succeeding LHDs and LPDs are going to use something else.

The US Navy will be installing this;

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[Deino]

By the way ...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1246384708960882688

PS: If the procedure with No. 2 is the same as with No. 1, then launch could take place in about 16 days (paint was first spotted on no. 1 on 10. September and launch on 26.)


And yet another image of the second Type 075 ...

(Image via @开心包子铺 from Weibo)

 

[yesterdayshadow]

the 2nd has launched

 

[lcloo]

the 2nd has launched

Psed photo. The second ship is still in dry dock.

 

[by78]

Both units are in the frame.

(1440 × 1080)

 

[by78]

the 2nd has launched

That's a poor photoshop job.

 

[asif iqbal]

I thought it was real for a second ?

 

[Deino]

And yet again an update from the second Type 075 LHD under construction at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai .... seems to be quite ready for launch!

(Images via @云墨斋SSS at Weibo)