PLAN Photos & Videos

PLAN destroyer family:

PLAN SOF members of PLAN 9th anti-piracy fleet in the Gulf of Aden peforming a drill:

Chinese Naval personnel wait for the return of Chinese Navy Eighth Escort Task Force in Zhoushan, east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 28, 2011. The flotilla returned home after visiting Katar and Thailand, and accomplishing escort missions over sea areas of Gulf of Aden and Somalia. [Xinhua/Hu Sheyou]

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FAC 22 pix..

bd popeye said:

PLAN SOF members of PLAN 9th anti-piracy fleet in the Gulf of Aden peforming a drill:

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When I first look at the photo, I supposed the guy (on the right) was holding a crutch , and the middle guy looked like a disable/injured man helping by his comrades.

Thanks for the pics Popeye. Now I'm gonna ask a stupid question. What's the difference between a destroyer, frigate, and cruiser as far as today's navy surface ships (you have to excuse me I'm land lubber)?

Equation said:

Thanks for the pics Popeye. Now I'm gonna ask a stupid question. What's the difference between a destroyer, frigate, and cruiser as far as today's navy surface ships (you have to excuse me I'm land lubber)?

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Depends on which country is naming it's ships.

For instance if most nations had a Arliegh Burke class DDGs they would call them Cruisers. The USN calls Ticonderoga class cruisers but in reality they are only slightly larger than an Arliegh Burke DDG.

wiki has good info on this subject.

Currently only three nations, the United States, Russia, and Peru (BAP Almirante Grau (CLM-81) while still in service with the Peruvian Navy), operate cruisers, though the line between cruisers and destroyers is once again blurred. New models of destroyers (for instance the Zumwalt class or Arleigh Burke class) are often larger and more powerful than cruiser classes they replace.

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Modern destroyers, also known as guided missile destroyers, are equivalent in tonnage but vastly superior in firepower to cruisers of the World War II era, capable of carrying nuclear missiles. Guided missile destroyers such as the Arleigh Burke class are actually larger and more heavily armed than most previous ships classified as guided missile cruisers, due to their massive size at 510 feet (160 m) long and weighting in at 9200 tons and armed with over 90 missiles.

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In modern navies, frigates are used to protect other warships and merchant-marine ships, especially as anti-submarine warfare (ASW) combatants for amphibious expeditionary forces, underway replenishment groups, and merchant convoys. Ship classes dubbed "frigates" have also more closely resembled corvettes, destroyers, cruisers and even battleships

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Equation said:

Thanks for the pics Popeye. Now I'm gonna ask a stupid question. What's the difference between a destroyer, frigate, and cruiser as far as today's navy surface ships (you have to excuse me I'm land lubber)?

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As popeye has mentioned, the distinction has been very much blurred these days. Nonetheless, I think a useful guide that a seafarer told me is quite useful.

Frigate - jack of all trades, but master of none (i.e., it has decent capabilities in all 3 types of warfare: anti-submarine, anti-surface and anti-air)

Destroyer - jack of all trades, master of 1 (i.e., it has good capabilities in 1 area, and decent capabilities in the other 2. The Australian AWD is a good example where it is designed to be good in anti-air, but decent in anti-surface and anti-submarine)

Cruiser - a larger destroyer that also doubles as a command ship.

Re: PLAN Pictures Thread 4

That muzzle flash looks like a silencer of some sort on that QBZ-95 with the grenade launcher attached on the second to last pic. Anybody know what it is?