PLA Navy news, pics and videos
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The second one looks to me especially interesting. Is the propeller to be fitted on the extension below the keel?More unmanned patrol boats... The development in this area looks to be heating up.
it maybe a rudder combine with something like sonar for tracking underwater. it seem like device installing at ACTUS, Darpa developed unmanned submarine hunter. i'm not to sure, maybe i fail
sorry ACTUV, not ACTUS
The next two posts document what the Chinese indigenous crrier has done through 2015 and thus far in 2016. It will also punctuate why I believe that the carrier will not officially launch until late 2017 at the earliest, and more likely 2018.
Here are five pictures from mostly last year detailing progress:
Through this period we saw the hull growing up to the hanger deck and then the hanger being placed.
Here are five pictures from mostly last year detailing progress:
Through this period we saw the hull growing up to the hanger deck and then the hanger being placed.
This second post details later events, mostly this year in 2016 here into mid-May. Where we have seen the sections for the flight deck overhang being prepared and the first two placed, and then further extension of the forward part of the vessel up to that deck.
The last pic shows the approximate progress to date.
They still have to extend the flight deck out over its sponson completely to the stern, and then forward to the forward weapon sponson on that side. They then have to add that sponson and the other weapons and auxillary sponsons around the ship.
Then they have to build the rest of the flight deck forward including the ski jump.
At some point during, or fter all of this, they will add the island.
Finally, they have a LOT of internal wiring, structure, HVAC/Plumbing and work to do interior to the ship to hook it all together.
Only then (normally) will the vessel be launched. I believe they have over year's worth of work to do that...as much as two from this point.
Then they will spend months, perhaps a year completing the outfitting once it is launched before it goes to sea for its intial builders trials.
We will watch that happen...but there is not rushing it.
The last pic shows the approximate progress to date.
They still have to extend the flight deck out over its sponson completely to the stern, and then forward to the forward weapon sponson on that side. They then have to add that sponson and the other weapons and auxillary sponsons around the ship.
Then they have to build the rest of the flight deck forward including the ski jump.
At some point during, or fter all of this, they will add the island.
Finally, they have a LOT of internal wiring, structure, HVAC/Plumbing and work to do interior to the ship to hook it all together.
Only then (normally) will the vessel be launched. I believe they have over year's worth of work to do that...as much as two from this point.
Then they will spend months, perhaps a year completing the outfitting once it is launched before it goes to sea for its intial builders trials.
We will watch that happen...but there is not rushing it.
SinoSoldier
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Fresh rumors from the "big shrimps", in order of relative "importance":
- Steel cutting has begun for the Type 002 CV
- The Type 055 will be "seen" by 2016 (not sure what this means, the statement could be either implying launch or that we will "see" it being built)
- Steel cutting may begin for the Type 054B at the end of 2016
- A 5000-ton catamaran has been launched
- Sister ship of 88 Xu Xiake will be out of the dock soon
- More Type 071s will be built
- A smaller cousin to the Zubr LCAC (named "Stallion") will follow the Type 071s
- Construction of Type 052Ds, 054As, and 056s continue
- Construction of Zubr LCACs continue
Make of it what you will.
- Steel cutting has begun for the Type 002 CV
- The Type 055 will be "seen" by 2016 (not sure what this means, the statement could be either implying launch or that we will "see" it being built)
- Steel cutting may begin for the Type 054B at the end of 2016
- A 5000-ton catamaran has been launched
- Sister ship of 88 Xu Xiake will be out of the dock soon
- More Type 071s will be built
- A smaller cousin to the Zubr LCAC (named "Stallion") will follow the Type 071s
- Construction of Type 052Ds, 054As, and 056s continue
- Construction of Zubr LCACs continue
Make of it what you will.
That all seems fairly reasonable, and fzgfzy has an excellent track record, especially after his 001A posts last year.