PLAN Taskforce 529 open house - Massive photo link!!
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MwRYum, welcome to SDF! Thanks for posting that link. I changed the title to promote interest in this thread.
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MwRYum
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Not likely, for that port is kinda small for a towed array sonar.
Not that small:
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As an old USN salt from '71-'91 everytime I see these Chinese ships I can't get over how clean they appear. I see a lot of fresh paint. And that helo is the cleanest I've ever seen. That flight deck has no tire marks! How's that possible? Amazing. The Chinese do a fantastic job of presenting a vessel for display.
MwRYum
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Probably that's because those are the newer ships, though I won't be surprised if they did slab a fresh coat of paint before call to port...you see, open house activity like such is still very new to Chinese military, PLA Hong Kong garrison made the first and turn it into annual event but still not open to all (you need a HK ID card to get the tickets, while the authority gave away a Sunday before the event, queue starts early and if you ain't there by 0600, your chance is slimmer than a pancake).
Thanks MwRYum..You know I've seen hundreds of photos of Chinese ships and I've never seen anyone cleaning or painting anything. But yet everything is clean and freshly painted. I'd like to see some pictures of Chinese sailors doing ordinary seaman work. By the way at navy.mil there are hundreds and hundreds of photos of USN sailors doing the ordinary seamen task.
MwRYum
Major
I can understand that, their public affairs office still in the stage of "displaying the martial side" of the military, not like the US who has displayed way enough on CNN, and now can do something about the "human side" of the military...China has not go to war for almost 3 decades now, the last was the border skirmish with Vietnam and most of those who fought there were retired by now, and that ain't fit the modern warfare that PLA shifting gear to either; fighting insurgencies was handled by the People's Armed Police but those, even with suspected foreign help including the US, usually just small cells with unsophisticated weapons and tactics, not enough to be marked at the same level of sophistication as the Taliban or Al-Qaeda.
Think about this, the largest deployments of PLA in the last 20 years were during natural disasters - annual massive floodings at various rivers, and the 2008 earthquake top it all...national day parade doesn't count on my book, that's a display, a show, not actual operations.
Think about this, the largest deployments of PLA in the last 20 years were during natural disasters - annual massive floodings at various rivers, and the 2008 earthquake top it all...national day parade doesn't count on my book, that's a display, a show, not actual operations.
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Maggern
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Indeed. We have the Gulf of Aden. But that's pretty much it. And of course peacekeeping in a whole bunch of countries, but that again is little combat and more engineering and stuff.