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Navy officer group marriage with type 56 as background via LKJ86
056 class FFL/corvette
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Now this would fit nicely with type 56 having organic UAV with small sonobuoy via LKJ86
AAD 2018: China’s Blowfish I VTOL UAV enters service with PLAN
Richard D Fisher Jr, Pretoria - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
21 September 2018
Chinese officials have revealed that the Ziyan Blowfish I VTOL UAV shown here at AAD 2018 has entered service with the Chinese navy. (Richard D Fisher Jr)
Officials from Chinese company Ziyan revealed at the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) 2018 exhibition in South Africa on 19–23 September that the Blowfish I vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has entered service with the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).
The Zhuhai-based UAV manufacturer, who did not provide any details about the number of Blowfish currently in service with the PLAN, showcased a model of the electric-powered 1.75 m-long platform at the show carrying three missile-like projectiles.
According to Ziyan, the Blowfish I has a maximum take-off weight of between 28 and 50 kg and an endurance of between 45 to 60 minutes. The UAV can reach an altitude of 5,100 m and carry a payload of between 7 and 12 kg, excluding its electro-optical system. Officials at the show told Jane’s that the UAV can also be equipped with anti-personnel grenades and be modified to deploy small sonobuoys upon customer request.
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A clever little beast - electrically powered should make it simple and cheap to mass produce - ideal for the corvettes. I can see everyone getting more and more of these alongside USVs to harness swarm tactics as an offensive move, or saturate the sea with sonar or short-lived/self-destructing micro-seamines to go for area denial.
The ship above used the new SR2410C radar which hopefully will see service with later PLAN Type 056. The Type 364 radar currently used on the Type 056 looks obsolete compared to this.
The land version of the SR2410C was exhibited at Zhuhai, and can be seen on a different part of the forum, with link:
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/zhuhai-air-show-2018.t8316/page-34
This was posted by LKJ86 at the PakDef forums. I don't have any idea if this picture is recent or the latest, given how this dock has given birth to so many Type 056 in the past, the same scene all start to look the same and has no reason to be any different. Identity of the two other ships are also unknown. .
asif iqbal
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Basically 056 programme is continuing
Hendrik_2000
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Exercise of several Chinese corvettes of the Southern fleet
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A new Type 056 corvette was launched on 11 December at the Huangpu shipyard in southern China. She will receive the name of Wenshan and will be assigned to the 17th flotilla escort, based in Xinhui. This is the 54th class and also the 10th float in 2018.
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