Sea trial program, or any test flight or ground trial, follows a strictly defined process. It's not because one says we need to commission in 3 months that we can really do it.
If you refer to my personal table on Type 054A achievement, you can see that the sea trial last from around 280 days...
4045 T/R per face, it could simply not be smaller...
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This is just the first sea trial for propulsion system...
If we refer to the Type 052C program, the sea trial would last for 18 to 24 months.
Henri K.
Chinese navy has or is building now 6 x Type 052C and at least 5 x Type 052D, all visible from photos, the role of 12 000t class Type 055 will be very interesting for observation.
Henri K.
Chengdu's Wing Loong armed MALE entered into serial production.
At least two other countries than China bought and use this drone, one is the United Arab Emirates.
Henri K.
It makes no sense to say "superior". Each SAM answers to a particular category of threat (and so target).
In it's category, means long rang high altitude focusing on flying platform with limited ABM ability, China has -9A for example. It seems that -9B is a naval version but not sure.
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This is what our chinese friends called "China's speed" ? :china:
2 days after havin launched the 18th Type 054A frigate in Huangpu shipyard at Guangzhou, today it is the round for the 19th Type 054A in Shanghai to be launched.
And if I'm not wrong, other sisters ships are already under...