Chinese Navy (PLAN) News & Discussions

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Rumour mill: sketchs of a new type of FFG(some 3000 tons) to be based at the reclaimed islands in the SCS

Let's build at least 20 of them

 

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Notice modules of #2?

 

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The radar is surprisingly small, I thought they would go for a quad array lantern setup, or at least a larger rotating array.

 

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Flight deck being cleared

 

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056 FFG collection chart (40's)

 

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[Zarvan]

China's 40th Jiangdao-class (Type 056/056A) corvette shortly before being launched on 28 October at the Huangpu shipyard in Guangzhou. Source: fyjs.cn
China's 40th Jiangdao-class (Type 056/056A) corvette was launched on 28 October at the Huangpu shipyard in the southern port city of Guangzhou.

The ship is the twelfth of the class to be constructed at the yard. The latest three are currently fitting out at Huangpu or are undergoing post-build sea trials. One of them is expected to enter service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) before the end of the year.

Huangpu is one of four shipyards constructing the 1500-tonne Jiangdao-class corvettes at a rate of about one every six weeks.

The corvettes are armed with four YJ-83 anti-ship missiles, a 76 mm gun, two triple-barrelled lightweight torpedo launchers, and an eight-cell HQ-10 short-range surface-to-air missile launcher.

A number of the class have enhanced anti-submarine capabilities (Type 056A) with towed and variable-depth sonars, in addition to the hull-mounted sonar fitted to all of the class.

Although not equipped with a hangar, a Z-9 helicopter can be operated from the flight deck to either supplement the ship's sonar suite with airborne dipping sonar or provide the capability to engage a submarine at greater range than achievable with ship-launched torpedoes.

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[cnleio]

Well ... China just spent 4 years time to finish 40x type056 corvettes, i think most of them will patrolling in South China Sea.

 

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HQ-10

 

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HQ-10

I hope they can install a AESA radar on the Sovremenny-class DDG, the shipbody is big so that can install more VLS missiles and that need a good AESA to detect further aircrafts.

 

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[english_man]

The Chinese are doing the right thing, i.e they are giving their older Destroyers some significant upgrades, which will give the PLAN a very capable Destroyer fleet.
We have seen the upgrades to the Luhai class Destroyer 167 Shenzhen, and now the first 2 Sov's...........and i presume in a few years the other 2 Sov's will be updated, but are any of the other older Destroyers due for an upgrade anytime soon?...................and i don't mean the Luda's which should be gone out of the fleet by 2020.