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Platapus 05-20-11 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike (Post 1667462)
Some think the bulge is to accommodate a missile silo for a navalized DF-21D ASBM.
I can't see how the DF21 could be launched from this "bulge" and like the quote from Hunt for Red October, why would you want to?

McBeck 05-21-11 03:08 AM
Simple...its a beercooler

Subnuts 05-21-11 07:40 AM
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Originally Posted by McBeck (Post 1667700)
Simple...its a beercooler
"Could you launch a beer horizontally?"
"Yeah, you could. But why would you want to?"

TLAM Strike 05-21-11 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 1667602)
I can't see how the DF21 could be launched from this "bulge" and like the quote from Hunt for Red October, why would you want to?
The bluge is at fit the bottom of the missile while the rest goes up throught the hull in to the sail, like on the Golf class SSB (which China also operates.)

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Originally Posted by Stealhead (Post 1667482)
What is the boat in front of the dry dock there?
That is a Yuan class SSK.

Oberon 05-21-11 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike (Post 1667818)
like on the Golf class SSB (which China also operates.)
That's stretching it a bit far isn't it TLAM? I don't think that Golf has left port in years.

TLAM Strike 05-21-11 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Oberon (Post 1667820)
That's stretching it a bit far isn't it TLAM? I don't think that Golf has left port in years.
She seems to be serviceable:
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/7937/golfssb.jpg
Plus they need to have some platform for testing SLBMs for the new Jinn class SSBNs since that Xia's never go to sea.


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