I heard they are closer to 30-35k metric tons, not sure if anyone knows what their actual full displacement is?
They got the same 4 x 12mw diesel powerplants as the Type 901 AOE which is 45,000 mt full.
I heard they are closer to 30-35k metric tons, not sure if anyone knows what their actual full displacement is?
Once you get enough real world experience, then you can build realistic models of how things perform. Once you have those models, computational design and development can speed up everything. In other words, this is knowledge logarithmically accelerating everything.How did they get so much confidence in this design (and 055) before producing small batches as was the case with most of their previous ships?
The most significant part of the notice is that it stated "Two ships will be launched...."
Probably a combination of mature modelling software and experienced design team.How did they get so much confidence in this design (and 055) before producing small batches as was the case with most of their previous ships?
Anyone had ever seen a working model of a warship? Such complicated and sophisticated construction projects obviously doesn't work the same way as some trival mold form. I've never heard about anything like that and it would be probably way too expensive. There are a few proabable reasons for such developement that I can think of:Once you get enough real world experience, then you can build realistic models of how things perform. Once you have those models, computational design and development can speed up everything. In other words, this is knowledge logarithmically accelerating everything.
Anyone had ever seen a working model of a warship? Such complicated and sophisticated construction projects obviously doesn't work the same way as some trival mold form. I've never heard about anything like that and it would be probably way too expensive. There are a few proabable reasons for such developement that I can think of:
1) The most important - there's nothing revolutionary about the design. All the systems are already employed and doing it's job aboard other vessels. If they're using this platform with sytnthesis of systems for which they now pros and cons approach rather than testbed for anything new then one can say it's valid in this case.
2) We don't and won't know if anything goes wrong or not so well in case of this class.
3) Sisterships might differ in details - so far there's simply not enough material so far to simply see the differences and infer on the background of such changes. Thos differences between ships in the same class might be small or pretty big, like some measurements of MC height and stuff like that.
4) Money is not a problem. Also important in this case. They might have went with 'we'll fix whatever comes up on the wrong side along the way' type of approach. Also viable and and shouldn't take slipways away from the shipyard(s).
If anyone thinks that all the problems could be fixed on the 'drawing board' he's clearly delusional. Just look at the navy which has the biggest experience in doing all sorts of warships in recent century and yet they can go wrong with a particular warship or even entire class. The only difference with PLAN is that we never hear about the problems in public, so we can only assume in most cases.