doesnt really hold water or make sence.
there might be smoke generators, but if that is the case. then its most likely for the benefit of any high ranking military and/or political figures present to inspect the test fires, and not for the crew to aim at.
with modern radar and computers, the ship can plot an intercept path and give mid-course guidence to the missile much more accurately and faster then mere mortals like us.
it also dont make sence for the crew to train for situations that will never happen in real life.
For crying out loud, I am speculationg on a picture! Besides, how the do you know for sure? They might be practising a manual interception with pure line-of-sight guidance (is that a capability on the PLAN Jiangwei-class frigates? If not, I am wrong).
it also dont make sence for the crew to train for situations that will never happen in real life.
But there is nothing wrong with honing skills is there. Take the RAAF for example. They train with allies in Exercise Pitch Black for an aerial assualt on Northern Australia. Indeed an unlikely real life scenario. But they still do it, every two years. Just because a scenario would seem to be unrealistic, doesn’t mean the skills attributed with dealing with it are redundant. And as for that real life situation? I think a missile getting that close to a ship in wartime is a VERY realistic situation especially for the less capable PLAN vessels.
OTOH, it could just be an exercise beefed up with pyrotechnics to impress the brass.
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