054/A FFG Thread II

Blitzo

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by78 said:
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Interesting, so now we know how the VDS door opens.
 
navyreco

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Chinese Navy (PLAN) Commissioned its First Upgraded Type 054A Frigate with new H/PJ-11 CIWS
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A commissioning, naming and flag-presenting ceremony of the new "Huanggang" Frigate of the Chinese Navy (PLAN) was held was held at a naval port in Zhoushan city in east China’s Zhejiang province on the morning of January 16, 2015, marking the ship has been officially commissioned to the Navy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLAN). "Huanggang" is the seventeenth Type 054A Guided Missile Frigate (NATO designation: Jiangkai II class FFG).
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Type 054A Upgrade
The new "Huanggang" Frigate is the first Type 054A vessel to be fitted with upgraded systems. The most visible upgrade consists in the replacement of the close in weapon systems (CIWS): The H/PJ-12 seven-barreled 30mm CIWS (sometimes referred as Type 730 which is the export designation.) present on the first to the sixteenth frigate in the series has been replaced by the much larger H/PJ-11 eleven-barreled 30mm CIWS (export designation Type 1130).
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Other modifications or upgrades are unspecified by Chinese media mentioned the likelihood of the presence of new towed array and variable depth sonars, one of which could well be Type 311 already present on board the new Type 056A ASW corvettes.

Finally, it is worth noting that it took 628 days to commission the "Huanggang" Frigate while the average was only 363 days for the first 16 Type 054A Frigates. This could indicate a large number of new systems onboard the seventeenth Type 054A.

All future vessel of the series should be fitted with the same CIWS and systems.
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by78 said:
A nice, large head-on shot of Type 1130. It's almost like a Star Wars prop. And yes, all 11 barrels are clearly there for the counting.

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Uhhh...if you look at the middle, it seems like Chinese precision metal-cutting technology is quite terrible. It is not even a perfect circle.
 
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Josh Luo said:
Uhhh...if you look at the middle, it seems like Chinese precision metal-cutting technology is quite terrible. It is not even a perfect circle.
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You are viewing the weapon at an angle, which will rend to make the circle into an ellipse from your eye's perspective. Also, it is a telephoto view, which will serve to further distort it.

As we have seen these weapons tested at very high rates of fire, I can promise you that there is no discrepancies and imperfections that would keep it from being able to be used as intended.

So, a passing shot at Chinese manufacturing capability based on this picture is not warranted.

Now...that aside...we do not know how effective the Type 1130 is. But the fact that the PLAN is now proliferating this particular design to other warships is pretty clear evidence that the PLAN feels it is effective enough. This is not a cheap thing to do...and the PLAN is not foolhardy or prone to knee-jerk reactions (as we have seen on these boards and documented over the last decade and more).
 
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