I agree with GarryB, but the Chinese are not expected to have 6 fully fledged aircraft carriers in 10 years. With the first 2 aACs they made being pretty obsolete, at best they will have 4 modern carriers and at best 2 of them nuclear.
Managing four carrier groups will be a task in itself... given time I am sure they will learn very quickly... honestly I feel safer with Chinese carrier groups sailing around the place than British or French of American carrier groups.
One of the things which is really interesting about the #Chinese Navy Type-055 cruiser is that it uses both Cold launch and Hot Launch missile systems.
Not interesting at all...
Basic reason is that HHQ-9 is from S-300 concept/tech and pre-dates the 'modern' VLS.
What an ignorant statement... the S-300 has always been cold launched and was one of the first VLS ever deployed on land or at sea for SAMs... the Klintok is cold vertical launched too.
The first ships with major VLS systems were the Orlans (Kirovs), but of course the Slavas had vertical launch SAMs too.
This mixing of systems may limit the options available for large Chinese warships. Can all the VLS cells accommodate all missile types? Probably not
What does that even mean?
Poor old China stuck with vertical launch missile systems that can cold launch or hot launch but can't do both... why would that even matter?
Edit: I've been trying to remember how long ago I found out about it, I know I posted about it on here years ago somewhere (in Russian Navy section I think)
But why does it even matter... it is not like there will be a combat situation where you are only able to hot launch or cold launch at a target... the method of launch is irrelevant and ridiculous...
Most hot launch systems use cannisters that the missiles are stored and carried in so they are not reused... most cold launch systems have an ejection system that blows the missile up into the air before the missiles engine is started... the missile is tested before ejection to make sure it will start its engine when launched, but sometimes when a missile solid rocket motor starts it explodes... hot launch, that means it explodes inside the launcher... which is not ideal... cold launch means it explodes in the air above the launcher or falls back down onto the top of the launcher.
Any failure is not ideal, but hot or cold launch does not make it better as long as it launches...
AFAIK Redut is cold launch and UKSK is hot launch... mainly because the missiles in the UKSK launcher are up to 10m long and can weight 3 or more tons which is a lot of weight to blow 30m into the air with a gas system or a short burn booster.
The missile launch rate or capacity to hold different types of missiles is vastly more important than the method of getting the missiles out of the tube... most are in sealed containers for transport and loading anyway...
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