FFG 054/054A Thread

[Gollevainen]

The VLS for Shtill exist at least on the development board, tough I've heard about both rotary launcher and western type hotlaunched system. But we really need to see more pictures and wait untill all systems included untill we can say for certain. My quess is the VLS for Shtill, but if I proove out to be wrong don't bother to use it as a cheap way to express your frustration becouse I never really belive anything unless I see it myself

 

[tphuang]

this is the same model from a different angle, some dude labeled the components on there, but they could easily be false. Notice the launcher that is labeled as 8 anti-submarine rocket

This is a closer view of 054A that just got launched

 

[swimmerXC]

 

[adeptitus]

this is the same model from a different angle, some dude labeled the components on there, but they could easily be false. Notice the launcher that is labeled as 8 anti-submarine rocket

I'm curious as to why he labelled the ship "054B" ?

If the ASW missile proves to be true, it'd be interesting to see if it's domestic development, or something based on the Russian Klub-N.

 

[tphuang]

I'm curious as to why he labelled the ship "054B" ?

If the ASW missile proves to be true, it'd be interesting to see if it's domestic development, or something based on the Russian Klub-N.

sorry, I should have called it Anti submarine missile. As for 054B part, maybe that's the real designation for it? We had 051 and then 051B. We had 052 and then 052B. It always puzzled me how they just went from 054 to 054A.

Also just indicate how that radar could easily be sea eagle.

To translate the bottom part, it simply says that Sea Eagle is PLAN's next generation medium to long range 3D radar, it is needed for the newest PLAN missiles and is the radar that will be massly equipped by future fleet.

As for the HD 054A, it's kind of sad looking at it now that the HP 054A is out. Nice picture on 071 though.

 

[guitarjeff]

[qimg]http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/3359/054a100306abj0.jpg[/qimg]
[qimg]http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/9171/054a100306beh1.jpg[/qimg]

From this angle the 054A definitely looks top heavy.

 

[Gollevainen]

From this angle the 054A definitely looks top heavy.

those are pics of it in the shipyard without many of the designed weight to be fitted. The Thpuangs pic shows the ship in somewhat more realistic mode, but still it's noway near full loaded so it will "drop down"...

Anyway I doupt that there is a seccond VLS, just becouse there seems to be the space (the same space as in 054) it doesen't mean that you can just put VLS there. Also I remember seeing that exactly same model from the same angle and there was no seccond VLS (and the systems where labeled differently) so I quess it's a PS work...

...but like with the other stuff, lets wait few weeks and we know much more....

 

[swimmerXC]

 

[adeptitus]

@_@

Did he put up that banner for the photo-op? I'm impressed!

Too bad the banner covered up the ship itself.

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Regarding the Sea Eagle S/C radar, I wonder if the PLAN (or manufactuer) had a habit of naming ship radars "Hai YinG"? Tye Type 381 radar on 051, and Type 518 radar on 052 have been reported as "Hai Ying" in the past. Though I think the pictured version, Sea Eagle S/C, somewhat resembles an updated version of the Type 381 "Sea Eagle C-B".

 

[tphuang]

alright, we got new pictures of 054A from Huangpu shipyard.

I think this first one is trying to say another ship has moved into the enclosed area for construction. We saw a while back that two 054As are ordered from HP.

Now, more photos of the launched one