Posted on 12/30/2016 4:22:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The People's Liberation Army Navy's (PLAN's) new Type 901 replenishment ship commenced sea trials on 18 December, according to Chinese media.
The 45,000-tonne vessel, which was built at Guangzhou Shipyard International's Longxue shipyard on the Pearl River, is expected to provide logistics support to the PLAN's nascent carrier force.
Photographic evidence of the ship's construction emerged in late 2015, not long before it was launched on 15 December 2015. It is equipped with three gantries and a fourth high-point structure port side aft, configured with five hose rigs for liquid refuelling on the port side and four on the starboard side. The central gantry provides a transfer station for solids on each side.
The ability to have multiple hoses connected will enable the Type 901 to not only provide aviation fuel and fuel oil to the carrier simultaneously, but also minimise the duration of each replenishment serial: a potentially hazardous evolution which limits the carrier's manoeuvrability and precludes it from operating aircraft.
The Type 901 will be able to refuel a carrier from its port side and, when fully worked-up, the ship will also be able to simultaneously refuel one of the carrier's destroyer/frigate escorts on its starboard side....
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Russians have 143 million people. We have 329 million. China has 1.2 BILLION. Trump is very wisely triangulating China with our friends in Russia. We need each other.
Naval warar is not a game of chess. In modern warfare it will matter little how many or how big your pieces are or even where they are deployed. With modern technology and novel weapons, virtually all big capital ships are floating coffins.
This is something that requires a lot of training a experience. Having conned a destroyer alongside the Sacremento at night in the Tonkin Gulf it takes a lot of practice and a crew that knows what to in the dark with a sea running. It was really the highlight of my naval career.
Meanwhile, China is exporting billions, and billions, and billions of dollars more to America, than they allow back in.
The trade imbalance is massive.
And NOBODY is doing a single thing about that. Anywhere.
Nobody.
I am optimistic that Trump is actually motivated by the good of America. Maybe im Naive.
What you say is true.
Patience.
I don’t think your wait will be long.
Can that supply ship bring out more airplanes too? It seems as if they lose a few every time they try to run an exercise.
This sort of thing should be tied directly to OBAMA and his stewardship as phony president. Can you impeach a president who is no longer in office or does he have to be tried for TREASON?
I’ll believe a Chinese Unrep when I see one.
It’s the most complicated seamanship.
Run silent.
Run deep.
Aegis matters.
Study.
See my post #10.
I’m guessing the plan to anchor in those little harbors they built. Or go full stop and send small boats to carry the hoses between the ships.
Of course, digital controls and GPS may have changed things.
Fleet tankers are prime targets as they spend much time away from the fleet.
US Fleet tankers will always be accompanied by an LCS
That’s BS. A sneak attack would wipe out ships. But after that no way.
LCS?
They’d be safer running alone.
Well it’s not for protection. An LCS needs repeated refuelling to deploy trans ocean
Right on. An unrep requires the entire crew of both ships and in many cases all three ships to function as smoothly as a fine Swiss watch or it becomes a Chinese fire drill resulting in possible death and destruction-—pun intended.
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