PLAN Fleet supply vessels
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asif iqbal
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Amazing totally amazing !!
1 for CV-16 and 1 for CV-17
Imagine a dual carrier strike package
Fire power it will bring to the table
1 for CV-16 and 1 for CV-17
Imagine a dual carrier strike package
Fire power it will bring to the table
Okay article, mostly correct but some is a bit dubious, for example the 901s portside forward most gantry station doubles as both a fuel replenishment point but also as a dry cargo station if one checks recent photos on that side, meaning the ship actually has three total dry cargo points, two on the port side and one starboard.
I'm also not sure where the 1:15 ratio for the Chinese Navy is coming from... As far as i can remember the Chinese Navy only has 48 odd "first line" blue water capable combatants that includes the more recent frigates and destroyers, a handful of power projection a ship's like LPDs and Liaoning, and they have 11 replenishment vessels in service at present (not including the first 901 which is still in sea trials), which includes 8 903/A and the two older 905s and the single 37k ton 908... That is a ratio of about 1:5 or 1:6.
Your difficult ! and even not a like seriously
LOL
Your difficult ! and even not a like seriously
it's called trying to be accurate. You're welcome
You don' t understand the matter is for the ship the rest is secondary in this article, in more for to be exact as u the good ratio for USN is to about 1 : 3, 31 Repl. ships for 104 CV/DDG/FFs in service but more big than Chinese all do minimum 41000 t !
48 ?
Real : 1 CV + 28 DDG + 49 FFG/FFs : 78 so a ratio Repl Ships/Combattants 1 for 7
even without Jianghu minimum : 65 Combattants
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I don't understand what you are saying.
My discussion was not about comparing the actual capability of either navy's replenishment fleet, only about the authors calculation of his ratio.
Out of those many DDGs and FFGs how many are even blue water capable or ever intended to be used for blue water missions?
The 051s most definitely are not, and the oldest frigate we've seen go on a blue water mission is an 053H3 and that was one time for a gulf of Aden patrol that was never repeated by anything older than 054.
So yeah, for surface combatants i think including only first line combatants which are capable or intended for blue water operations like 054A and 054, and 052C/D, 051C, 052B, 051B, 052, Sovs are the only ships that make sense to be included in that. So yes adding it all together i think puts us to about 48 or slightly more ships in total.
Not agree for take in account only ships déployed or capable to be until in Africa ! remain serious.
Jiangwei and Ludas are also used for enough long Journey and make sense include
look
with a replenishment ship ... in the western Pacicific an sufficent distance in relation with the matter
and of course they have not surpassed for only few mn these islands.