South China Sea pics the West does not want you to see

Semi submersible arsenal ship that might form part of Chinese carrier battle group that patrols the South China Sea.

(Just look at how many [missile] vertical launch cells it's carrying on its back):






BTW, when China refurbished the Ukrainian vessel that is now the Liaoning aircraft carrier seen in the above pic, they removed a lot of its offensive features. I guess this semi-sub with loads of missiles on its back makes up for those removed features.

 

China begin to build a novel class of hellish warships

According to well informed sources, PLAN has ordered to a batch of 3 or more new concept warships:

https://lt.cjdby.net/thread-2388569-1-1.html

Such warships can submarige like submarine and can go to surface like the usual warship, and can travel at very very high speed which is unheard of for a ship due to the application of new travelling mechanisms.

A breif introduction of this kind of ships is mentioned here

http://www.whst.gov.cn/xwzx/show/31732.aspx

The concept inventor, Professor Huang, had been awarded state prize first class for his invention, his new concept ship is briefly descripted here in a disclassified research journal paper recently:

http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTotal-CANB201603007.htm

The ships PLAN ordered is believe to be able to do land-attack/anti-ship/anti-air/anti-submarine warfares, and is equiped with ASBMs, various missiles, as well as electronmagnetic railgun and laser defence weapons.

The combat mode for this warships, is search-and-destory, so basically it can not only accompany with large navy task force, but also work as silent "sniper" in the high sea.


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No longer a design concept PLA Navy has already ordered 3 or more of these ships. It means these advance combat ships coming to the South China Sea soon:

 

Slightly different concept of semi-submersible arsenal ship from the one posted above. This one looks like it travels at the speed of a speedboat when fully surfaced: