Chinese shipbuilding industry

shen said:

Side exhausts make the side of your hull dirty. Maintenance issue like having to cut the hull open to replace the diesels vs lifting out of the stack. South Africa navy also reported water ingestion problem in rough sea with their side exhaust MEKO. But hey, the customers get what they want.

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Thanks, makes sense. I figure there's a scalability limit to this design as you don't see larger warships use the side exhaust design? I wonder if the Algerian's chose this design not so much for IR reduction but to enable more deck space such as the dome radar/sensor on the secondary mast instead of exhaust stack.

PLAN test ship

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Another test ship lunched at LNS



It has a crane on it looks to be some kind of salvage or recuse ship

A new PLAN survey ship to be launched



Units 874

It's interesting to watch all these other developments introducing warships into its navy shows a indication of tactics and strategy and also that they are not just building the usual corvettes, frigates and destroyers that most people see

Can someone translate the following article ?

Is China building another larger hospital ship or is it talking about 866?

asif iqbal said:

Can someone translate the following article ?

Is China building another larger hospital ship or is it talking about 866?

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Ministry of industry and information technology approved "critical technologies of multi-functional large hospital ship" study project proposed by 701 institute. This R&D project would be run from 2015 to 2017. Based on ship-building engineering experiences and according to market demands of hospital ship, this project studies international laws and regulations as well as technical standard specifications in order to selecting an appropriate ship types and suitable equipment, to comprehend key technologies of shipbuilding, and develop a multi-functional hospital ship weighted around 30,000 tons and equipped with 500 beds...

Ok interesting another large hospital would be good they are nice for "soft diplomacy" missions

asif iqbal said:

Ok interesting another large hospital would be good they are nice for "soft diplomacy" missions

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500 bed capability may be nice for a multi-brigade oversea operation. This scale of power projection is quite significant.

Due to higher operational cost, larger hospital ships of US Navy operate less frequently than its smaller counterpart of PLA Navy.

asif iqbal said:

Can someone translate the following article ?

Is China building another larger hospital ship or is it talking about 866?

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i believe it's referring to a new ship