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054A is both a anti-air as well as anti-sub frigate since the launch of first ship. There are, however, two major variant of 054A, the first tens of ships are more biased towards a general purpose role ( for air, surface and under-water), and a latter variant with enhanced CIWS and towed sonar.
Under-water weapons include sonar, torpedo launchers, anti-submarine helicopters, ant-submarine rockets and long range missile assisted Yu-8 torpedo. While anti-air equipment consist of mid-range HHQ-16 SAM and soft kill ECM. Thus it is not really a primary anti-air defence ship.
The differences between frigates like 054A and destroyers like 052C/D is generally the scale of system/equipment due to the size of hull, simply put it this way, a bigger DDG has bigger range, duration, weapons (eg long range HHQ-9), radar and combat suite than a smaller FFG.
But FFG is important because China's sea defence doctrine is still very much of a home territorial defence. In contrast US Navy pays less importance to FFG because they are fighting battles far far away from their own land, thus they need bigger ships like DDG and CG to escort their main intervention oriented aircraft carrier fleet.
Under-water weapons include sonar, torpedo launchers, anti-submarine helicopters, ant-submarine rockets and long range missile assisted Yu-8 torpedo. While anti-air equipment consist of mid-range HHQ-16 SAM and soft kill ECM. Thus it is not really a primary anti-air defence ship.
The differences between frigates like 054A and destroyers like 052C/D is generally the scale of system/equipment due to the size of hull, simply put it this way, a bigger DDG has bigger range, duration, weapons (eg long range HHQ-9), radar and combat suite than a smaller FFG.
But FFG is important because China's sea defence doctrine is still very much of a home territorial defence. In contrast US Navy pays less importance to FFG because they are fighting battles far far away from their own land, thus they need bigger ships like DDG and CG to escort their main intervention oriented aircraft carrier fleet.
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