It was too foggy, too rainy and generally shit weather where you couldnt see shit. But it was still a pretty nice parade with a number of international ships.
Anyway, beginning with the star of the show: The first Type 055 Cruiser, named "Nanchang", pennant 101.
Japanese news were covering this parade, dubbing it as "Asia's largest warship".
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Japan participated with the DD-117 Suzutsuki, an Akitsuki-class Destroyer.
The fact that it was towed into the Chinese port of Qingdao was the subject of certain memes, especially since the Suzutsuki is sort of a weeb favorite among chinese otaku.
The Royal Australian Navy arrived with the Melbourne.
At least one American ship was involved, then.
South Korea came with the newest Daegu-class Frigate.
Singapore came with the Formidable-class
RSS Stalwart
Kyan Sittha, lead ship of the same class of Frigates from the Myanmar Navy.
The INS Kolkata
The Naresuan from the Royal Thai Navy, a heavily modified Type 053 frigate from China with a 32-cell Mk41 VLS added.
The KD Lekiu of the Royal Malaysian Navy
The Project 22350 Admiral Gorshkov FFG arrived before the parade, but I didnt see them participating.
Instead, the Nikolay Chiker did partake
From the Sultanate of Brunei, the patrol vessel Daruttaqua
Vietnam also sent the Gepard-class FFG Tran Hung Dao
Bangladesh's BNS Prottoy, an export Type 056 Corvette
>Asia's largest warship
Wut? That would be the Type 001, not the 055
I maybe misread, it seems that the Japanese TV said "Asia's largest destroyer"
The Philippine Navy BRP Tarlac Landing Dock
>fleet review
>just 12 ships
More Chinese ships now: The Liaoning.
Or whatever can be seen of it through the fucking fog
There are 38 in total
Type 071 LPD "Yimeng Shan"
Type 071 LPD "Wuzhi Shan"
Type 072A LST "Culai Shan"
The newest 50k ton class Type 901 Fast Supply Ship, "Hulunshan"
The "Peace Ark" Hospital Ship
Cringe
Why even bother showing up?
Everyone sent frigates at the bare minimum
Imagine being a sailor or officer in these ships, literally cringe.
Type 052D "Taiyuan"
Type 052C "Changchun"
The review ship was the Type 052D "Xining", funnily with the same pennant number as the visiting Japanese ship.
International guests on the helipad
Xi Jinping standing on the deck to take the review.
Most navies are too small to spare larger ships for good-will exercises like this.
Badly visible, but this is suppossed to be the Type 052B DDG "Wuhan"
Type 051C DDG "Shijiazhuang"
That PLA marine camo table is a nice touch.
Type 094A SSBN "Long March 10"
Type 093A SSN with unknown designation
Improved Song-class SSK
Type 054A FFG "Linyi"
Type 054A FFG "Binzhou"
Type 054A FFG "Huangshan"
The most numberous frigate class is also most represented.
Type 054A FFG "Sanya"
Now, the absoluely mass produced light frigate class (like, 40+ in 5 years or so), the Type 056/A.
Pic: "Yichun"
The 23rd of the class, "Qinhuangdao"
The 37th in the class, "Zhang Wei"
36th of the class "Wuhai"
The 28th of the class, "Ningde", was for static display in Qingdao, also home to the famous chinese beer brand.
Just a day before, the sun was shining and the weather was clear.
The last of the fleet review is the "Haiyandao" submarine tender.
There was also an aerial display of naval bombers and fighters, but with a visibility of only 500 meters, it was moot.
Anyway, more Type 055 pictures.
Is it normal to involve support ships in fleet reviews like that? I always assumed the point was to show off impressive-looking offensive capabilities more so than logistics infrastructure.
very interesting detail on the main radar arrays.
Seems like they have optimized those bar-shaped radars ontop of the bridge. Previously thought to be IFF interrogators, they are most probably long band radars-
Yes, seems to be normal for fleet reviews vs actual naval parades.
In some fleet reviews you even bring out your traditional sail-training ship to show off your traditions.
Higher res on the "Nanchang"
64-cell VLS block
The lead ship of the 055-class has quite a politically significant name: "Nanchang" is the city where the PLA, back then known only as "Chinese Red Army", staged their first uprising hence was considered their birthplace.
The pennant number 101 was unused for decades, even after the decommissioning of the original 101, the Anshan DD, which was the PLAN's first warship.
Things we missed: Planes.
sauce?
bombers, first time with YJ-12 heavy supersonics.
to sum up all the pictures in this thread......In one Picture...
grabbed that off 2chan.
The Japanese were super weebs, even having pic related officially onboard the Suzutsuki. No shit.
And this was the official merchandize for the chinese visitors.
Well fug
I wonder how much they go for
The chinese weebs would pay a lot, since they love silver haired botes and characters in general.
So 60 RMB?
special edition of the venerable "warship knowledge" magazine
Not sure myself. I just read on 2chan that they were immediately sold.
haha wow
I fucking hate stealth ship aesthetics
Aesthetic
Looks like a Delta-Class
Pretty much, but I'll admit some of this shit is pretty sleek looking.
similiar concept, although the 094 is a bit more "streamlined" than the Delta
>all these frigates reaching China
Huh, they have a longer range than I thought
nice
It's a review not the Battle of Midway. What do you want, half the NATO nuke sub fleet to show up?
No fucking way
They say the Suzutsuki had around 5000 visitors
On such a small ship. Worse than Comiket
It’ll be interesting to see how any of it holds up in actual combat, though I guess the same can be said for nearly every ship built post-1945.
knowing the PLA, it will take 10 years until we see a photo of that weapon...
Singapork
>Aviation photos
>Looks like a standard destroyer
Does Feng Jian know something we don’t, Jow Forums?
wasting good DSLR on a warship is a crime among planespotters.
My point is that have at least some form of self-respect and send frigates like everyone else.
Even old frigates are fine, nobody wants their newest ships to be shipscanned by Chinks.
>cringe
>>>/reddit/
>nobody wants their newest ships to be shipscanned by Chinks
Too late, honky.
See
Lots of those navies cant afford and whatever ships they have is already being tailed by the Chinese during normal operations in the South China Sea and beyond.
The Suzutsuki for example is one of the newest ships in the JMSDF, but it already has had multiple closer encounters with shadowing Chinese frigates and destroyers in the past. So, whatever the Chinese can know, they already know.
And these
These are all some of their newest warships.
kek
Why did the Gorshkov not participate? Did it break down or something?
At least I didnt see it. Maybe it did.
There were also some other ships that were on static display tho.
Can someone translate that into English?
Can you translate it?
Upon asking my Chinese liason officer how many ships the PLAN will commission this year: "I dont know... a dozen or so".
Joke is that the German Navy is currently in the process of completely disintegrating.
>Krauts playing nice with an expansionist Asian autocracy
Typical
>a dozen or so shitty sub 5k ton frigates
When's the type 002 coming out, Chang? And your new nuclear subs.
Russians seem to have some fun
