Chinese Navy (PLAN) News & Discussions

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Sea trials of the Shandong have commenced at 6:45 Beijing time.

Video here:
https://3g.163.com/all/article/DHLTTS1V0001899N.html

 

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2018.5.11-14

 

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2018.5.14

 

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https://m.weibo.cn/1740979351/4239878868601316

 

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Spain, 2018.5.13-16

 

[LKJ86]

052C

 

[Brainsucker]

They should sell Type 052C already, or refit them to Type 052D standard. Replace those revolver VLS chamber with Type 052D VLS System.

With today perceptive, Type 052C capability is not better than a Frigate Standard.

 

[LKJ86]

They should sell Type 052C already, or refit them to Type 052D standard. Replace those revolver VLS chamber with Type 052D VLS System.

With today perceptive, Type 052C capability is not better than a Frigate Standard.

What is the Frigate Standard?

 

[Dante80]

They should sell Type 052C already, or refit them to Type 052D standard. Replace those revolver VLS chamber with Type 052D VLS System.

With today perceptive, Type 052C capability is not better than a Frigate Standard.

That doesn't make much sense...unless you are talking about "Frigates" like Horizon, F100, FREMM/FREDA etc. Which have about the same displacement and capabilities as the 052C does. And that is hardly a "standard" (those are essentially destroyers, not frigates).

The six 052C destroyers are not going away anytime soon. The hulls are pretty new (I mean, the last one was commissioned 3 years ago) and the destroyers are sorely needed for PLANs fleets. It is possible that sometime in the future we might see Lanzhou and Haikou getting a refit/upgrade/SLEP at the 20-25 year mark.

 

[Figaro]

They should sell Type 052C already, or refit them to Type 052D standard. Replace those revolver VLS chamber with Type 052D VLS System.

With today perceptive, Type 052C capability is not better than a Frigate Standard.

You might as well be referring to the decades old 053s. The 052Cs are very capable destroyers ...

 

[Brainsucker]

That doesn't make much sense...unless you are talking about "Frigates" like Horizon, F100, FREMM/FREDA etc. Which have about the same displacement and capabilities as the 052C does. And that is hardly a "standard" (those are essentially destroyers, not frigates).

The six 052C destroyers are not going away anytime soon. The hulls are pretty new (I mean, the last one was commissioned 3 years ago) and the destroyers are sorely needed for PLANs fleets. It is possible that sometime in the future we might see Lanzhou and Haikou getting a refit/upgrade/SLEP at the 20-25 year mark.

Just count how many missiles that 052C can bring. The VLS, despite a Destroyer can only bring 48 missiles, and all of them are HQ-9. It mean, the VLS can only bring 1 type of missile. To be considered as today Destroyer Standard, it's not enough. Because with that limited type of missiles that 052C can bring, type 052C can only accomplished a limited type missions, compared to Type 052D and other modern Destroyer.

 

[LKJ86]

Just count how many missiles that 052C can bring. The VLS, despite a Destroyer can only bring 48 missiles, and all of them are HQ-9. It mean, the VLS can only bring 1 type of missile. To be considered as today Destroyer Standard, it's not enough. Because with that limited type of missiles that 052C can bring, type 052C can't accomplished the mission that 052D and other modern Destroyer can.

You may forget 8* YJ-62.

 

[Brainsucker]

You may forget 8* YJ-62.

The question is, are those YJ-62 placed inside Type 052C VLS? 052C is the bigger version of 054A. It can't even bring both HQ-9 and HQ-16; it can't bring LACM.