PLAN Photos & Videos

Re: PLAN Pictures Thread 4

tphuang said:

well, a pack of 8 022s, not sure where this is shot at.
[qimg]http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/2262/022packmar20jc7.jpg[/qimg]
the next part, we see the new MCM assets
[qimg]http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2943/804328mar20hy5.jpg[/qimg]

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Those eight 022s are very interesting. Do you have a better pic of those that does not have the bad place in the photo where they are tied up?

Seeing eight of them there at once, and knowing all of the many places others are located...makes you wonder exactly how many the PLAN has built at this point? Seems like there are a quite a few of them now.

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Jeff Head said:

Those eight 022s are very interesting. Do you have a better pic of those that does not have the bad place in the photo where they are tied up?

Seeing eight of them there at once, and knowing all of the many places others are located...makes you wonder exactly how many the PLAN has built at this point? Seems like there are a quite a few of them now.

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sorry no, I think they intentionned PSed that part.
I actually have some other pictures of 022 from recent time. More up close. You can see some of the sensors on it.

It's hard to say how many are built at this point, but a couple of months back, someone who was taking photos at HP said that he counted 12 just in HP shipyard (and I think we got photos for 8 of them at that time). But just how many are in service is the real mystery. The interesting part of all the photos so far is that we still haven't seen any 022 with anti-ship missiles loaded, which is really very surprising.

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Some pix show that 022s appear in NSF too. Why you think no AShW missile is loaded? You mean the boxes are empty?

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szbd said:

Some pix show that 022s appear in NSF too. Why you think no AShW missile is loaded? You mean the boxes are empty?

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Right, we haven't seen any missiles loaded into them.

Re: PLAN Pictures Thread 4

tphuang said:

sorry no, I think they intentionned PSed that part.

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Seems like they are afraid that people will figure out exactly where the vessels are located...like the dock itself would give it away. Seems strange with all of the pictures showing so many of them elsewhere at dockside...but eight in one place is the most I have seen at one time together.

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PSed by the poster to hide his location.

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What I want to see is a viedo or some good pictures of those FAC's in operation. It's nice to have all those "toys". But if those ships are just sitting in port without the crews being trained what good would they be in case of conflict?

So any pics or videos of a FAC at sea????

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bd popeye said:

What I want to see is a viedo or some good pictures of those FAC's in operation. It's nice to have all those "toys". But if those ships are just sitting in port without the crews being trained what good would they be in case of conflict?

So any pics or videos of a FAC at sea????

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The boat was on CCTV's program. PLAN command in chief was on board.

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some pictures of MCM assets that I got yesterday
804

800, 801, 803 - same class as 805 and 328?

805, 438 - the same class?

looks like a different class here, 816 and 817

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well obviously 800, 801, 803, 816 and 817 are propaply same class with themselves and 804 and 805 as well 438 are different class with raised forecastle and higher freeboard. The first patch with lowfreeboard and flushdeck are propaply coastal/inshore sweepers

where as the 804 and 805 are most likely PLANs first modern MCM, dual purpose mine hunters with evident sweeping gear as well. Finaly:nana:

the 438 differences from those two by its superstructural details and to my eye appears to be good old T-43 with new superstructure, perhaps with even GRP hull, who knows and migth be a new oceanic minesweeper or just a test ship for new thecnologies