PLAN Fleet supply vessels

jobjed

Captain
CV-16 is not assigned to a single fleet though ? It's shared between all branches ?

Not sure but simply due to the Liaoning's homeport's being Qingdao would provide a strong case for having the Hunlun Lake assigned to the NSF.

The SSF's vessels have sailed the world for the past decade with 903s just fine, the 901 wouldn't provide them with any capability they didn't already have. By contrast, the Liaoning has never sailed far from China's coast. Perhaps with the addition of the Hunlun Lake to the PLAN, the Liaoning and her battle group will finally sail past the Ryuku chain and begin conducting exercises in the West Pacific.
 

schenkus

Junior Member
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It's 4x, two fore and two aft.

But don't expect any upgrades to PJ12/11 or HQ-10 during peacetime. It's already eyebrow-raising that the PLAN saw fit to devote funding to arm an AOE with CIWS, albeit a cheap version, when none of the AORs got CIWS.

According to Henry K. they originally intended to use 730s and an HQ-10 but this was reduced to save money.
 

jobjed

Captain
According to Henry K. they originally intended to use 730s and an HQ-10 but this was reduced to save money.

Henri got that info from pop3 so it's pretty reliable. The same thing occurred with 071s. Basically every single large vessel (>1k tonne) in PLAN service that uses PJ-13s (AK-630s) was designed to use PJ-12/11s but have PJ-13 substitutions during peacetime so more funding can be devoted to tasks that take years to accomplish like R&D and shipbuilding rather than satisfying requirements that take only a few months/weeks to achieve like advanced CIWS and mass proliferation of body armour.

It all boils down to whether the PLAN wants to have, say, four AOEs with PJ-13s or two AOEs with PJ-11s and HQ-10s when a conflict erupts, because those are the two options they can afford with the amount of funding they get. Purely hypothetical, of course.
 

Iron Man

Major
Registered Member
Can we tell if the power plants are four gas-turbines from the pictures?

I can't, although logic dictates it must be.
The massive stacks are always a good indicator of GTs underneath, as they both suck up and expel far larger volumes of air and smoke compared to diesels. A perfect example is the CODOG setup on the 052C/D class. You can tell the difference immediately:

GT vs Diesel Exhaust.jpg
 

weig2000

Captain
The massive stacks are always a good indicator of GTs underneath, as they both suck up and expel far larger volumes of air and smoke compared to diesels. A perfect example is the CODOG setup on the 052C/D class. You can tell the difference immediately:

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True, I was looking at the top-view pictures of the Type 901 a few pages back in this thread but could not identify the massive stacks indicating GT's. Type 901 should be using the same GT as 052C/D, if it's powered by GT.
 
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