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To: sukhoi-30mki

Those are computer-generated images, like you can make with AutoCAD or Solid Works.

If they had something real, I think they would be showing it, not some dumb CGI still shots.


4 posted on 03/09/2017 8:36:36 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Steely Tom

The CIWS gun the system uses is very real and already deployed. The “new” part is the adding of six missiles to the CIWS mount.


8 posted on 03/09/2017 9:01:15 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Steely Tom

As I said, the gun is very real - it appears at 1:02 in this video shot during Chinese war games back in 2013. It shows up a few times after that with more footage after 2:53.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCzlu4vsw1o


10 posted on 03/09/2017 9:08:50 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Steely Tom
By the way, this Type 730C is actually a back-port of a kind.

They took the original Type 730 and converted it into a land CIWS system, like we did the CIWS Ashore program. They called it the LD-2000 system. Then they put six TY-90 missiles on it, called it the LD-2000 Gai and apparently had some success with it. They're now backporting the missile capability back to the parent Type 730 naval CIWS.

Here's pictures of the LD-2000 Gai in the metal:

These pictures date back to 2011 when the UAE expressed interest in buying some.

18 posted on 03/09/2017 9:34:27 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Steely Tom; JohnBrowdie

The Type-730 gun system has been in service for over a decade and the HQ-10 missile has been around for a few years and is being deployed on several Chinese ships.

And the Chinese have operated a similar Russian system called the Kashtan on their Sovremenny class destroyers for a decade now. Plenty of time to steal/copy the technology for an integral CIWS.


36 posted on 03/10/2017 6:00:37 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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