052C/052D Class Destroyers
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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that is mark from tug activity, sometimes the friction between ship hull and tugboat rubber cushion leave a mark like this... maybe someday the tugboat cushion can be replace with something which can prevent this happen, it's disturb the colour esthetic. i think the navy is not to happy with this... especially the painting man
And your point is what?
It suggests the Chinese fleet spends proportionally less time at sea than would be customary in the USN or other leading western navies.
The only accurate way to measure that would be to have a way of tracking how many days each ship spends at sea vs not at sea IMO. A one photo snapshot of one period in a day does not necessarily give us a good indicator of how much time in each year the ships spend at sea.
E.g. this happened last year with the RN's Type 45s:
WOW, you can tell this from one photo?
Here is the US Navy being a massive slacker:
Here is another example of its wanton slackness:
Given the size of the RN, they must be the biggest slackers of all:
Biased much?
antiterror13
Brigadier
Very interesting logic! where did you learn that logic? I want to know how your logic works from just one photo ... I want to learn that
In connection with two recent cases of US destroyers being hit by merchantmen there were complaints that USN ships spend too much time at sea.