China Coast Guard and Patrol vessels
- Thread starter crobato
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They lost their forward dual 100 mm turret guns and the awkward SAM launchers. Also lost all their SSM's.
They do seem to have retained the twin 37 mm AA guns. I can't make out any other armament.
The air and surface search/track and fire control radars are also gone. As well as the electro-optical systems.
I don't think they retained any ASW equipment or sensors either.
Loss of all that armament but retaining their engines would make them among the fastest of China's Coast Guard vessels.
They do seem to have retained the twin 37 mm AA guns. I can't make out any other armament.
The air and surface search/track and fire control radars are also gone. As well as the electro-optical systems.
I don't think they retained any ASW equipment or sensors either.
Loss of all that armament but retaining their engines would make them among the fastest of China's Coast Guard vessels.
Oh! My mistake.
They have clearly retained the after fire-control radar for the rear twin 37 mm AA guns.
I would expect them to either re-install the older forward fire-control radar or a newer one in it's place.
And I would also expect some sort of air-search radar to cue them.
Will have to look closer next time.
They have clearly retained the after fire-control radar for the rear twin 37 mm AA guns.
I would expect them to either re-install the older forward fire-control radar or a newer one in it's place.
And I would also expect some sort of air-search radar to cue them.
Will have to look closer next time.
joshuatree
Captain
Reportedly commissioned.
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That pic really says it all regarding the size of this vessel...it is simply a HUGE cutter.Reportedly commissioned.
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To me a cutter is in the first place a single masted vessel with a certain type of sailing rig. US changed that already two centuries ago when its coast guard called schooner rigged vessels cutters and see what has happened by now! Still that is in one development line. The frigate name has been used for a variety of unrelated boat and ship types, from small rowing and sailing boats in the late Middle Ages to two decker sixties in the middle 17th century to the newly invented ship classes that were smaller than the always growing destroyers ( and see how the torpedo boat destroyers from around 1900 grew to cruiser sized vessels now ).
antiterror13
Brigadier
Reportedly commissioned.
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huge and extremely nice looking ship