A rare sight - View from inside of the enclosed conning tower of a PLAN SSK/SSN/SSBN. Posted by @牧星观海天 on Weibo.
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Rather unexpected for Fujian to sail that far north of Shanghai for just her 2nd sea trial.
But given the proximity of Fujian's zone of sea trial to Liaoning (which is where Shenyang AC is located) - Could there be any possibility of Fujian conducting landing and launching tests for PLAN's carrier-based warplanes and helicopters during this sea trial?
An unknown AFV. Judging from the blue paint and the cover over the driver, this could be an amphibious IFV for the Navy, possibly the successor to ZBD-05.
That binocular twin tube thingy on the hull behind the driver's position looks like it could be an APS, though it is not configured exactly the same as the GL-6 we saw at Zhuhai a few years back. But I can't see what else it may be.
We can see an electro-optic sensor mount as well on the far right side of the image, likely as part of the turret (I suspect the gun barrel setup is blocked by the fellows standing on top of the vehicle)
Maybe it is... what?
Are you suggesting the vehicle in by78's post is the drawing in that picture? If so, then I would be quite confident it isn't, because the schematic drawing obviously represents the turret for the "new light tank/AFV" which is a different vehicle to the vehicle in by78's post.
If you're saying the twin binocular/launcher/possible APS on the vehicle in the picture posted from by78 is the same as the APS on the schematic drawing for the "new light tank/AFV" then yes it might be, or it might not be, as the problem is we don't know what the actual model of the APS on the new light tank/AFV is.
Putting it another way, the same questions we have about the twin launcher/possible APS on the vehicle posted from by78, is very similar to the questions we have about the APS on the new light tank/AFV, compounded with the question about whether the two systems on those two vehicles are the same or not.
Without knowing what the APs on the new light tank/AFV is, it probably complicates things to entertain whether it is the same as the system on the new vehicle.
