Just as we are focussing so much on the 003, here we have the second and third Type 075 silently coming along...
Is it just me or have we been bombarded with so much great news lately that I don’t seem to feel so much about this? I still remember how the launch of the first Type 075 stirred me...
Well, they have been long under development... This is going to be the decade all the strategic platforms and large-ticket items will burst onto the stage. So, fasten your seat-belt.
Just look at the space sector, lunar sample return, space station, Mars landing, all in the last six months or so. Honestly, I'm occasionally confused by all these names like Tian-something (can they be a little bit more creative?). Then they announced all those future lunar and deep space exploration roadmaps. In case we forget, the complete global navigation system Beidou-3 was deployed only last year. It felt like a long time ago.
My experience with China is once the country achieves the critical tech breakthrough, the deployment will quickly scale and even explode. Over a decade ago, I made sure I took the rides of the newly-opened high speed lines (Beijing-Tianjin, Shanghai-Hangzhou, Guangzhou-Shenzhen, etc.) whenever I visited China. Soon it was impossible to do it physically, so I tracked them on news and maps. For some years now, I didn't even bother to do that - they're simply too numerous and through cities I'm totally unfamiliar with.
Sorry about the off-topic. Can't help it.