The Ship Model Forum

These boats that were exported, leased, modified and so on from Russia.

The Chinese copy of the Kilo subs, are they identical to their Russian cousins?

What would I need to correct a Chinese type 33 to make an accurate Romeo?

Finding details on these subs are difficult, or I'm just looking in the wrong places

_________________
So many models... So little time...

You're looking in the wrong placeds I guess.

The Chinese have the Kilos which they bought from Russia, 2 of them were 877EKM, the other 2 were 636 version. The latter has a 7-blade skew propellor and some changes on the aft part just in front of the upper rudder. The former has a 6-blade non-skew propellor. The second batch they bought were all 636 version.
Then you have the Yuan, which is a Chinese built sub, which resembles the Kilo somewhat, but is still substantially different. You can't really convert a Kilo into a Yuan.
The first of the more modern Chinese SSKs is the Song, it's pretty much a copied Agosta (they probably obtained plans of it through their Pakistani allies). Again you can't convert an Agosta into a Song, but the general lay-out, including a French sonar is obviously based on it.

Then you also have the Golf subs and currently they seem to have delopped something similar based on the Yuan. Never did much research into Golf or Romeo, so can't help you that.
Perhaps Hermill can.

_________________
The merchant shipyard

This video with recent footage of Type 092s...

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a26_1382948477

For those unaware, Hobby Boss and Bronco are 2 companies that do a lot of models of recent and modern PLA-N subs in 1/350 and 1/700 scale.

Here are links to 2 of the many kits from each company:

Hobby Boss: Type 33 submarine kit

Bronco models: Yuan class submarine kit

My attempt at making a Chinese Kilo class sub is at this other thread here.

_________________
"Haijun" means "navy" in Mandarin Chinese.

"You have enemies? Good. It means you stood up for something in your life."- Winston Churchill