nope, they did that maybe because the 35mm turret is blocking the view, and also it's look cooler as if it was really aiming for something, for the sake of documentation.
oh damn, that ship can't be helped with, it just gonna sink, you know when bauxite in contact with water then it would just become liquefied and gained more mass than the ship could handle and eventually gone sunk
Is it only me that concern that this chinese proposal would be an easy target for their own espionage action?
There will be a moment that a warship will go on some spec ops that requires full blackout meanwhile their "possible sneaky program or transponder device that can only be read by...
hmm mungkin niatan mereka pake kuningan tu supaya nantinya material kuningannya sendiri bakalan teroksidasi dan berubah warna (secara natural) dan jadi patina, seperti Statue Of Liberty, dia juga pake kuningan a.k.a brass, dan jadi punya warna ijo dari proses oksidasi material selama bertahun...
"Bahrain initially requested 19 of the planes, known as Fighting Falcons, worth $2.78 billion"
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2017/10/17/lockheed-martin-bahrain/?_gl=1*1yzq67u*_ga*YW1wLTI0X2dNelFlcEFTUzlYeUw2ZmkyVjBsRzRPUFVKV0kwX016b2k5Qk9XMDh0V29KV2ZZRUpuQTJYeVNLT25TUUc.
Kalo liat dari kasus...
even if PLA willing to sell couple of their Type 052D class ship, they got nothing to lose, look at this production rate, 13 7500ton class destroyer in the matter of 3 years, damn, its massif
should that kind of knowledgable operator be hired by SOE instead? supaya sedikitnya ilmu lapangannya kepake di tempat yang legal, kan sayang juga kalo akhirnya keluar bui ngelakuin hal yang serupa dan kena bui lagi