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China's 2nd barracks ship appears in Dalian
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2018-01-16

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BEIJING, Jan. 16 (ChinaMil) -- China's 2nd homegrown barracks ship has arrived in Dalian city of northeastern China's Liaoning Province to meet with China's 2nd aircraft carrier, according to recent reports.

As a unique type of warship in the aircraft carrier vessels battle groups (CVBG) of the PLA Navy, the ship has very advanced living support facilities including plastic runway, basketball court, gym, arena, Internet cafe and supermarket.

The ship is mainly used for accommodation for crew members, pilots, aviation crews and engineering and technical personnel during sea trial periods. It is a military quasi-luxury cruise ship.

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The performance of the new barracks ship is similar to that of ship XuXiake (Hull 88), a China's first homegrown barracks ship commissioned in 2011.

XuXiake ship is about 219 meters long, 28 meters wide and has a draft of 8 meters with full loaded displacement of nearly 30,000 tons and maximum speed of 17 knots (1 knot equals to 1 nautical mile/hr), and its maximum range is 8,000 nautical miles.

In addition, XuXiake ship is equipped with two 57 mm twin-barreled naval guns, two 30 mm twin-barreled naval guns and two rockets launcher systems. The helicopter platform of the ship can carry one Z-8 medium transport helicopter.

The new barracks ship is designed to support 2,500 people for 30 days at sea before needing resupply.

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It's known to all that its many global bases have helped the U.S. to have the most powerful aircraft carrier force in the world. The U.S. aircraft carriers can have supplies from the bases and the crews can also have rest periods on land during far sea training or combat.

China lacks overseas support bases and therefore constructing barracks ships is one of the solutions. Although a barracks ship cannot completely replace overseas base, it can reduce the aircraft carrier's requirements for land bases.

The combat effectiveness and cost-effectiveness ratio of the entire aircraft carrier battle groups can be enhanced through a combination of barracks ship and land base rotation. After all, the maintenance cost of an overseas base is far greater than that of a barracks ship.

The barracks ship can also be deployed as a training ship when necessary. XuXiake ship is equipped with a large number of simulators similar to those in Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning. The sea trial data of the aircraft carrier Liaoning can be transmitted to various devices on the barracks ship through data links for trainees to carry out simultaneous simulation.

According to reports, XuXiake ship will undergo renovation as soon as the new barracks ship is commissioned. The new barracks ship will follow China's 2nd aircraft carrier to carry out sea trials and form rapid combat capability.
 

Iron Man

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Indeed but remains boring for PLAN and mainly a new SSN Class in fact variant in service since only 3 years and if CO overstepped his mission by coming too close of the Shenkakus it is a grave fault !
I don't think there would have been an overstepping of his mission even if he came within 1 nautical mile of the "Shenkakus". I think you are looking at this from the Japanese perspective only. From the Chinese perspective Diaoyu is Chinese land, so how could coming close to Chinese land be an "overstepping" of a Chinese sub commander's mission?
 

Iron Man

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The 130mm gun would be far larger than what is depicted in the CGI here; its arc of fire is also significantly restricted by being to close to the VLS. There is also no reason not to stack the ASCM launchers to total 8 missiles. The uptakes seem to be a bit too large for diesels; incidentally, there are no downtakes depicted at all. Its generally overall boxy design reminds me of a slightly less ugly Perry class frigate. This looks to me like just another fan art CGI.
 
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The 130mm gun would be far larger than what is depicted in the CGI here; its arc of fire is also significantly restricted by being to close to the VLS. There is also no reason not to stack the ASCM launchers to total 8 missiles. The uptakes seem to be a bit too large for diesels; incidentally, there are no downtakes depicted at all. Its generally overall boxy design reminds me of a slightly less ugly Perry class frigate. This looks to me like just another fan art CGI.
I thought that it is a given that anything posted on the Chinese online forums that is not explicitly endorsed by the military should be taken with a pinch of salt. The CGI is a indication of how the new frigate might look like and what tech it will be boasting, but it is not the final say on the matter.
 

Tam

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Indeed. But the funnels though, are more in tandem to each other, like the Type 055. I also think that the antiship missile launchers might be in U-VLS cels rather than slanted launchers. The Type 366 "Bandstand" radar may have been retained on top of the bridge for that OTH capability.

That mast, I have seen that before, in a land based test mockup, but that picture of it might be deep buried within these forums. At that time it was assumed to be for the Type 055's. Laborious to check for every past post here, maybe someone can remember this.

Edit. Never mind I found it. Said to be located at Wuhan.

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latenlazy

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I don't like too your" Teacher " style and surely others also in more we are not rookies if you can avoid better... thank you

And it's still pretty wacky never see it for others countries than China...!

But for Hendrik agree more than biased completely indoctrinated ! we can see regularly Western bashing Attack salso and staff do nothing despite requests ! i see great compliments recently... Western members seems much less interesting for some...
Maybe you’re being overly sensitive.
 

FORBIN

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I don't think there would have been an overstepping of his mission even if he came within 1 nautical mile of the "Shenkakus". I think you are looking at this from the Japanese perspective only. From the Chinese perspective Diaoyu is Chinese land, so how could coming close to Chinese land be an "overstepping" of a Chinese sub commander's mission?
No i means the area around these Islands are much more watched and the submarine will have a lot more chance to be detected that if it is only crossing the first chain of islands ...
PS : quite sure exist a USN/Japanese SOSUS

Maybe you’re being overly sensitive.
I see it is write appear... i don't imagine
 
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