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OSINT: Possible Fire Aboard Chinese Navy (PLAN) Warship, Qingdao, China

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) suggests that a Chinese Navy (PLAN) warship may have caught fire on December 27. The vessel and smoke is visible in Sentinel-2 satellite imagery of Qingdao, were one of China's aircraft carriers is based. The warship hasn't been identified but appears destroyer sized.

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One possibility is that it is not on fire. Instead it may be a warship with old-fashioned boilers readying its engines. The apparent haste of the smaller ships around it suggests that it is more than that however.

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Older warships which have boilers, such as the PLAN's 4 Sovremenny-class sips, can cause a lot of smoke.

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