Re: PLAN submarines Thread II
Analyzing some of the new Yuan pictures, the pictures where it seems to appear alone or isolated in some place, are in fact, altered. The buildings are either removed or replaced by forests, or even in one case, the sea. The fact is that the sub still goes to the same spot and pier like you see in Post 106.
The background manipulationm, an indication of censorship---validates the surroundings of the sub might potentially be sensitive, which means its a PLAN base. I believe its the PLAN base at the mouth of Huangpu river intersecting the Yangtze, which is also being hanged out by all sorts of ships like 054As, Sovs, Houbeis, etc,. Its a very busy and very public section of water, akin to hanging out in the middle of New York harbor.
Something I noticed on the 093. The nose of all the 093s have this wake sensor on this arrangement with one small stalk in front of a larger stalk that has a fin trailing it. Even the image of the two embellished "094" and the image of the subs in the PLA 80th Anniversary hall has this. One exception is an image of an 093 in quite some detail but the background has been PS'ed with a background at Wuhan shipyard.
The 094 has a similar sensor, but it does not have the smaller stalk in front of it. Newer pictures of the Han and the Xia also shows the same sensor without the small stalk. Early pictures of the Han and the Xia shows a much different looking sensor, which almost stands up like a vertical fin.
The Song has a stalk followed by two other smaller stalks behind it. From above, the stalks are on a triangular pattern. The Yuan's sensor stalk is just a single one but appears to be telescopic, meaning it can be withdrawn, so that it actually disappears completely in some pictures.
