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Re: PLAN Pictures Thread 4
42nd already? That's.............fast production...............too fast? This boat belonging to another fleet would make more sense.....
Those waterjets are small.........and this ignorant man here isn't so sure that 4 waterjets will be adequate enough for power....
42nd already? That's.............fast production...............too fast? This boat belonging to another fleet would make more sense.....
Those waterjets are small.........and this ignorant man here isn't so sure that 4 waterjets will be adequate enough for power....
Re: PLAN Pictures Thread 4
It could be disinformation as well...but a minimum of 8-10 is probably a good start...maybe a lot more.
It seems that the PLAN is really in mass or series production for these vessels. Clearly there are more than the orignal four we saw early last year. There could be anywhere from ten to a couple of dozen of them by this time if they have been mass producing them since that time. I know I have seen a lot of pictures of them, some with numbers in the 40s and now this one marked 50...but I do not believe there are that many of them or we would have seen the other, lower numbers by this time too.tphuang said:
It could be disinformation as well...but a minimum of 8-10 is probably a good start...maybe a lot more.
Re: PLAN Pictures Thread 4
The interesting thing about type 22 is the production rate. It seems that many of the smaller shipyards that normally cannot build warships for PLAN are capable of pumping out type 22s. To do a basic guestimate, we've probably seen 2 shipyards in Guangxi, 1 in Guanzhou, 1 in Qingdao, 2 or 3 in Shanghai and maybe 1 in Wuhan. So, you have at least 7 shipyards building them. We've normally seen them built in batches of 3-4s.
The interesting thing about type 22 is the production rate. It seems that many of the smaller shipyards that normally cannot build warships for PLAN are capable of pumping out type 22s. To do a basic guestimate, we've probably seen 2 shipyards in Guangxi, 1 in Guanzhou, 1 in Qingdao, 2 or 3 in Shanghai and maybe 1 in Wuhan. So, you have at least 7 shipyards building them. We've normally seen them built in batches of 3-4s.
