It’s still possible it’s a prop but it would be a really detailed prop and expensive prop if it was
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It's so very clearly a prop or ad. I'm surprised the people who usually scream about "verifying sources" dove head first into believing this was a secret weapon.
It can be clearly seen from this photo that the radar is too big to be visually concealed
Also note the AC lol
Also note the AC lol
i mean we literally had verifiable sources confirm it’s not a prop, i personally think it’s real due to how detailed it is and expensive for a prop it would be
Replace 'PLA' with 'USN' or 'JMSDF' and you see that this particular boot fits on both feet.
The type 726 launcher is way close to the other container. It seems to have only inches of clarence for lateral movements and for recoil exhauses. When those multi-spectrum rockets launches, it will obscure the electro-optical tracking of the 1130.
The Type 1130 TEU does seem to need additional bracing for the top beams, expecially for the anything other than calm littoral seas.
Also, as Blitzo pointed out, the bridge is too close to the AESA for safety and for coverage. Both the bridge and the AESA are blocking the Type 344(s). A better placement might be to put the AESA and the 344(s) nearer to the middle of the ship.
The whole thing has that disposal / proof-of-concept look to it......almost as if PLAN simply wanted to response to Trumps' battleships announcement, using elements/concepts we've seen before, but not yet fully matured.
I think calling it a Destroyer is a stretch.
Roughly speaking, it's got a Frigate level sensor layout (presumably with CEC) with a bunch of VLS.
So it could be an arsenal ship that can be "produced" in days in large numbers for a wartime situation?
The photos were taken before Trump's battleships announcement, and we all know the PLA's project started much earlier.
I strongly against putting all equipment into a tit-for-tat, "you build A today, so tomorrow I build B in response" mindset. It exists, but not every piece of equipment corresponds directly to it, and please extend the interval to several years.
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It's highly unlikely the Type-726 and the CIWS will be used at the same time.
The presence of ASW rockets and torpedoes is interesting. That implies a sonar of some sort, perhaps towed?
And the cost of a 100-teu ship itself looks like $1-2 million. This is literally the lowest cost ship platform available.
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Interesting that some of the equipment appears to sit beyond the footprint of the container. The Type 730/1130 at the front looks like it would be extremely close, but this shot of the radar proves that it’s bigger than the container width, meaning they cannot conceal it inside a container.
Given how small the overlap in size between the radar base and the container is, and the fact the outer casing is just that, a casing, it’s actually telling that they didn’t bother with the small amount of effort needed to redesign it so that the whole thing can fit inside a container.
But I suspect if we get good detailed pictures of the rest of the equipment, we might well see that more than a couple of them can’t fit inside the containers. That is because the design principle behind this container destroyer design seems to be focused on mass production optimisation rather than full concealment. That means they are pulling existing, off-the-shelf kit that is already in mass production as opposed to making even modest changes to allow everything to fit inside standard containers.
If this is true, then the implications behind this design philosophy is actually extremely chilling, as this isn’t China preparing for a sneaky alpha strike or modern day Q ships as the west will immediately assume, but rather, this is a China preparing for a total war of attrition on par, and probably beyond WWII levels. Since this means they are either expecting their military shipyards to be either out of commission or are at full production and still need to rapidly pump out passable warships on a scale never before done in human history. And you don’t need that kind of fleet to play pure defence.