052C/052D Class Destroyers

Blitzo

Blitzo

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Tetrach said:
I've personally bought a few high res images from SAT imagery.. depends the area you want, it's around 17-20 bucks per kilometer square.. which is a lot.

Anyways, my comment was that we literrally see nothing on the picture. There's no way one can identify a hull out of those pixels...
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We've had many similar satellite pictures of comparable or worse quality, so this is par for the course and not abnormal.

In this picture, what we are able to make out is seemingly two separate hull modules in the part of the drydock closest to the water, which is the way that DL had previously built destroyers in.

Correlating that, with the rumours of a new round of destroyers to be built at JN and DL, means that this blurry satellite picture is indeed useful as it is an indicator that in the next few months we should keep some attention to DL.
 
iantsai

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Tam said:
I love the fact that this destroyer is straight out the replacement of the previous destroyer that has the same name, the same pennant number and is also based on the same base that bears its name.

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Zhanjiang is the headquarter and main naval base of the Southern Theater Command Navy, former South Sea Fleet. So it has a little privilege. ;)

For other cities which get the chance to name a warship, the Nave tends to use different city name / pennant number combination to distinguish between different warships.

Now, there are only 4 052Ds to be commissioned.

Rumors said there is a new batch of eight or twelve 052ds. Wish there are more new vessles show up in Jiangnan and Dalian.
 
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asif iqbal

asif iqbal

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if DL has re-started the Type 052D production I would not be surprised

as a matter of fact I would not be surprised if the mix is Type 052DL/Type 055A
 
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