Recent content by english_man

Use Chinese wikipedia for matters relating to the Chinese Navy. Unfortunately the English wikipedia for the pages on the Chinese Navy, like warship classes and their construction, is virtually useless now. Just to recap, the story goes that a few years ago, people were noticing that when info...

Why is everyone here being silly about saying the 055 will be outdated quickly?..........i mean its probably the newest, most technically advanced Destroyer class at present in the world? Of course future classes or iterations of the type 055 will have better tech, but to suggest that a warship...

Its good to see that the USN is trying to get back on track with its ship procurement. What they did wrong for quite some time was to take a revolutionary approach to their future warships, rather than evolutionary, and it has cost them very dearly indeed, and not just in cost. Basically the USN...

Seeing these great images................and with the 055 next to the 075 LHD. It makes you realise how big this 055 is. I mean i've been on a RN type 45, and that is a fairly big Destroyer, but nothing like the size of the 055. I can see why the Americans call the type 055 Cruisers!

Well..........i too thought it was 4, as it was stated on Chinese Wiki that a 052D Destroyer had been commissioned elsewhere on the 23rd April, but it was later noted that the date had changed on that site to the 16th. Anyway 4 ships in just a few days is remarkable. Well if you go back to the...

One other thing, also on the same day the 19th 052D Destroyer was commissioned elsewhere, the Kaifeng, ship no:- 124. Been a good month for the PLAN, considering another 052D was also commissioned on the 12th April.

Just a quick note....ignore this idiot "aziqbal".........this person recently got banned from the Sinodefenceforum.

Please can the person here writing posts about the 003 Carrier being completed by the end of year........PLEASE stop writing ridiculous comments. Just because someone saw an idiotic comment written elsewhere, doesn't mean they should forward this idiotic information. People need to sit down and...

That is very impressive if true.............and it will mean a great deal of work has to be done by the Chinese, to accomplish having 10 Carriers by 2035. Upto now it was considered that China might have 6 Carriers by then. I presume to meet the target of 10 Carriers they will have to settle on...

Yes exactly......i have mentioned this before, we would appreciate when people post images, to at least provide a few words of text, to explain what we are looking at. Its just common courtesy. As far as i'am concerned the image in question just shows a bunch of cargo ships?

Yes that is right.......unfortunately worldwide media outlets see her reports and then quote her, as though she was some official Chinese military spokesperson......whereas in reality she is not!

I remember reading her article last year.............and even then i thought she was talking rubbish! Where does she get her info from?

Is this some sort of giant magic trick?........ie where are the modules now, can we see them at their new location?

Could never understand that they originally placed the modules in the wrong order..........as once built up you still have to move them to realign properly at some point!

Looks a bit of a mess............it appears the ship was not given a fresh coat of paint after refit?