Yes its the same tugs we have seen in the Huangpu shipyard where they make the Surtass catamarans, Type 054A and Type 056A.
PLAN Fleet supply vessels
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Yes its the same tugs we have seen in the Huangpu shipyard where they make the Surtass catamarans, Type 054A and Type 056A.
You can do deep long-range Pacific Ocean operations with (smaller and slower) Type-903 replenishment ships.
You only need the extra speed of the Type-901 (which has 4 gas turbines) and extra payload, if you need to keep up with an aircraft carrier.
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
about time
Pakistan also has a variant
Pakistan also has a variant
Wiki says 881 was retired at Sep-2018:881 has been retired and struck from the register.
There is this in-room banner in 2nd photo indicating it's a "transfer" ceremony, with quite civilians there. And from 3rd photo the penant number is gone. Does PLAN just sell to some private company (scrapping)? Interesting thing is the for-gun seems still there.
They could give her to Pakistan, for spare parts.
MwRYum
Major
The handover ceremony was last month to museum.