Type 055 DDG Large Destroyer Thread

The bars are definitely IFF arrays, since there is literally nothing else on the 052D that could be IFF if not those. This is the same situation on the Liaoning, which has similar IFF bar arrays, and also has nothing else that could be IFF if not those.

I think this is more accurate, as each level marked in yellow (47 pixels height) is based off of all 3 distinguishable decks:


Your 3.5 decks will give the ship's bottom hull an essentially hemispherical shape, which I have never seen before in any modern warship. Even my 3 decks would give this ship a nearly hemispherical shaped bottom hull.

You also should remember that the 055 could easily have 4 decks below the crease. Even if it were only 3.5, that last half deck needs to have enough beam to accommodate 2 gas turbines side by side (even though they are staggered fore and aft, not literally side by side). You can easily tell by this photo that the hull below the crease immediately starts curving inward toward the centerline quite steeply, just as if the true bottom were only 2 to 2.5 decks below the crease, which is what it would look like with a normal-looking bottom hull.

 

Uhh, I meant to say 4 gas turbines side by side, and also the propeller shafts and housing in between them.

 

This mystery module does not easily fit into my vision of what the 055 should look like in the end. But if it were the 055, the section below is IMO what is most likely being built (outlined in orange and red, with the orange being the visible cross-section in the photo):

This requires some assumptions, however:
1) The amidships weather deck is at 02-level instead of 01-level.
2) The hangar does not extend all the way to the forward edge of the helicopter deckhouse.
3) The cross section is at a part of the ship where the hull bottom is starting to slope up towards the stern.

Of these, I personally believe only 2) may actually be true.

 

Oops, got the 02-deck level wrong:

 

So apparently, some Chinese are making fun of my latest piece on 055
http://www.dingsheng.com/forum.php?...%CD%E2%C3%BD%D1%D0%C5%D0055%D0%CD%B4%F3%C7%FD

What does this mean exactly ?

“能够与预警机 机载预警和控制系统（AWACS）和卫星的传感器实现数据融合，实现了一大飞跃”，
这还“飞跃”？飞跃塔吗个头啊，
这些技术，土鳖10年前就普遍装备了。

That PLAN vessels had datalink capabilities (with AWACS and Satellite) for the past 10 years already ?
And then they seem to laugh at the CGI everybody has been using for the past year or so...

 

Because it's not what the Wuhan mockup looks like; if a 02-level weather deck is what they wanted, that's what they would have built in the first place. And because you're basing your theory entirely on the color of white paint, which as I have pointed out before is both uneven (the helicopter deckhouse's white is significantly higher than the rest of the ship) and also includes the CIWS platform, which I have no idea how or even why that would be modified/eliminated according to your theory.

As I said, 2) is the only qualification which is reasonable to me.

Because even with that orange/red box I had to do violence to the shape and it's STILL at closer to 4 decks below the crease than 3.5. The actual ship has to be quite different from that CG in order for 3) to be true, i.e. has to start sloping up towards the stern much earlier than the CG indicates, or even that I indicated, or else you end up with a weird-looking hemispherical hull bottom which doesn't happen on modern warships. That CG obviously is hypothetical but is the closest one I have come across so far to what is probably the real shape of the 055.

There is nothing that definitively rules out this module as being the 055, but there is also nothing that definitively rules it in either. I'm fine with waiting for additional clarification but I'm far less sold on this module than other people are.