No naval vessel is capable on their on to leverage beyond 100 nautical miles hence information from assets such as UAV/UCAV and AWACS/AEW is taken into account.
Yeah, and I haven’t seen much about NK using drones for maritime surveillance.
Agreed. We do not know how long the rear missile tubes are. They may not be hull-penetrating (if they carry cruise missiles), so there would be no need to remove the batteries.
For the same purpose as other nations; to be able to operate outside of coastal area.
Not like I have much room to talk, but I swear that Three Fats is fatter in every picture I see of him...
The North Korean Navy was never designed to operate effectively as a green-water navy. Their expertise focuses on coastal defense, infiltration and high-speed landings.
Well, China once have only small, green water navy and no shipbuilding industry to talk about... and now it have second greatest ocean fleet in the world (aiming to become first one pretty soon) and largest world shipbuilding industry)
China's ship building industry can be dated back to 19th century, and that's for blue water, while modernizing the China shipyards involved importing technologies from various foreign partners from 80s to 2000s.
China is supported by a huge shipbuilding industry, even before it begins to move into foreign markets; domestic demand alone is large enough to sustain it. North Korea has neither: its shipyards are small and medium-sized, and it has long been underinvested in maritime sectors of the economy – such as trade and shipping – and thus has little need for shipbuilding, which means there isn't much to fund shipbuilding projects either.
Look at the size of the bridge windows and the apparent height of the open panels below them. Bridge is only 3 deck levels above the weather deck at the bow.
Constellation-class and Type 052 are basically same weight, former is slightly shorter.
At least length wise seems it could match Chinese 052D class destroyer.
This is a ship, not an aircraft.
You are certainly right, Scott.
More like 2x3m
Ship moves so it might as well be a way to see how well components work in operation while ship is moving which would be a step toward aircraft radar.
At least AESA fielded on a ship is a small step forward towards aircraft radar.
PESA is more likely for now, IMHO.
Depends on which Type 052 we're talking about. The 052D is about 1000 tonnes heavier than a Connie, the 052C about 400 tonnes heavier, 052B also about 400 tonnes heavier, and the plain 052-no-suffix is a tiny thing 2200 tonnes lighter than a Connie!
I think feature here isn't hull, it's that inside is likely also fully sourced from DPRK.
Switzerland could build all the guts of a ship this size. So could Norway or Sweden.
Switzerland doesn't produce missile systems, despite being old European country (i.e. industrialized by default).
