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[amchan]

Torpedo bulges in 2025? Interesting concept.

But I thought modern torpedos are keel-breakers, so the detonation would be coming from below instead of from the side.

Maybe its for lightweight torpedoes

 

[snake65]

That... looks awfully similar to the Italian WW1-WW2 era Pugliese system.

I wonder if it's of the same construction principle?

Figure 9 is taken straight from Littorio

 

[ACuriousPLAFan]

A recent photo of the Jiangnan shipyard.

There looks to be another 052-mod cutter at the center of the photo? The hull paint looks to be too white to be a naval warship, alongside a racing stripe-looking feature fore of the superstructure's hull, which is typical for coast guard cutters.

I hope I was wrong, though.

 

[The Observer]

Figure 9 is taken straight from Littorio View attachment 152188

I think the research team made some minor modification, but yes, the inner diameter of the main crush tube are both 3,8 m.

Then

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should be pretty useful. It's reviewing the Pugliese system again since it's reputation used to be pretty low.

TLDR; the Pugliese system works, but it is relatively space inefficient, so other multilayer system might be better especially for smaller ships that doesn't have the space needed.

It also noted like all traditional TDS, Pugliese system is ineffective against modern keel breaking torpedoes since there's not enough space to absorb the shock straight from the bottom.

 

[para80]

I'm not up-to-date on PLAN's weapon test ships, but what ship is this? It looks different from the weapon test ships I remember.

Interestingly this test ship re-uses a hull number previously assigned to a Type 815A SIGINT hull.

There looks to be another 052-mod cutter at the center of the photo? The hull paint looks to be too white to be a naval warship, alongside a racing stripe-looking feature fore of the superstructure's hull, which is typical for coast guard cutters.

I hope I was wrong, though.

Not wrong. It may still be the first hull they launched back in the drydock though. The same was previously observed for already launched Type 055 DDG.

 

[AndrewJ]

Just in: China is testing next-gen giant GaO naval radar, working in L+S+X band, with incredible T/R power. Two additional electric generators are equipped for the radar in the test. Many suggest the radar has comparable capacity to land-based AN/FPS-115 PAVE PAWS.

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Can see two containers (likely electric generators or capacitors) behind the radar.

 

[sequ]

Just in: China is testing next-gen giant GaO naval radar, working in L+S+X band, with incredible T/R power. Two additional electric generators are equipped for the radar in the test. Many suggest the radar has comparable capacity to land-based AN/FPS-115 PAVE PAWS.

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Can see two boxes (likely electric generators or capacitors) behind the radar.

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@tphuang is your dream coming true?

 

[Totoro]

How can the bands combo be known? Military is unlikely to release such info.

 

[FriedRiceNSpice]

Just in: China is testing next-gen giant GaO naval radar, working in L+S+X band, with incredible T/R power. Two additional electric generators are equipped for the radar in the test. Many suggest the radar has comparable capacity to land-based AN/FPS-115 PAVE PAWS.

Did you mean GaN or Gallium Oxide?

 

[AndrewJ]

Did you mean GaN or Gallium Oxide?

Gallium Oxide. Many suggest that much more capacity can be achieved in the same radar size with GaO compared to GaN. So it can be sized small & installed on vessels, while achieving the level of AN/FPS-115 PAVE PAWS.

How can the bands combo be known? Military is unlikely to release such info.

Bands can't be known from the photo though. But many suggest/rumor it will have three working bands, L+S+X.

The pic was leaked recently, raising lots of speculations. We should wait, until more details come.