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Interesting... Can anyone geolocate this drydock? If we know where it is, we can track its progress (and eventually, identity) with Sentinel.
Also, just saw one reply claiming that this is rumored to be a 076 LHD... But aren't the LHDs under the responsibility of Hudong-Zhonghua?
People sometimes use "JN" to describe the whole of Changxing island.
I cannot tell definitively if that hull is from the JN side or the HD side of CX.
... More importantly it's also very possible that this is just a civilian ship as well, and in fact if anything, unless there are obvious identifiers (like surface combatants) or unless credible individuals from the Chinese side stick their neck out to identify a hull's identity, then the default assumption should be that any mystery hull should be assumed to be civilian until proven otherwise.
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CSSC沪东中（华） = CSSC Hudong Zhonghua shipyard by the Huangpu river. I think this is an old photo of one of the type 075 that had already been launched. Or may be not type 075 but some other ship.....
The cranes appear to match the layout at the new Hudong facility on Changxing Island. Not sure on the buildings next to it but it doesnt seem to fit the legacy facility on the Huangpu River at all. I'm inclined to believe we are looking indeed at the mystery hull discussed before (and not at something done by Jiangnan). All guessing though.
Does China operate submarine drones ?
Chinese Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV)
I can't find a thread on this, so I'm starting a new one. If there indeed is an existing thread, mods please merge them. Thanks. Anyway, not much information is floating around on the various Chinese UUV programs. There is however a writeup from the excellent Eastern Arsenal. I'm starting...
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Thoughts on toroidal propellers? Compared to conventional screw propellers, they can operate more efficiently and with less noise. The disadvantages are increased cost and that being quite a new technology, they haven't been tested on massive thousand +ton boats yet, just small speedboats and yachts, so it's still unknown if they will still retain their advantages when scaled up and used at lower RPM.
But assuming that they do scale up, this could be a game changer. Much less fuel consumption and quieter, the benefits for warships and ASW are obvious. It's even good for commercial ships too. I hope that China takes an interest in this particular technology and tries to scale it up for larger ships and mass adopts it. Higher upfront costs doesn't mean much, the fuel savings will eventually make up for it and the smaller acoustic signature potentially saving a warship from a submarine attack will easily justify the cost too.
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