Well...............its quite obvious, that while the European warship classes such as the 'Type 45, Fremm, and Horizon' are very capable air defence Destroyers.........they are not a match for the new coming Chinese '055 Cruiser', or even perhaps the current '052D Destroyer'.......if they were to engage in a surface combatant battle......we would lose out to the Chinese.
Why?......well, as in particular case the 'Type 45', due to our goverment penny pinching, our Destroyers havnt been fitted with LACM's as they were designed for, and its only now that 4 of the 6 vessels, will be armed with the ancient American subsonic 'Harpoon' missile as an anti-ship capability!
Yes, we have the 'Sea Viper' anti-air, and anti-missile missile, but these are
defensive weapons, and not
offensive.
The Chinese 055 Destroyer, could launch its anti-ship missiles a very long way off, and even if the missile defences of the European warships had a 100% hit rate........we would, i expect, still lose, because we would run out of missiles before the Chinese.........because we have fewer missiles carried on our ships (assuming the '055' caries more than 48 anti-ship missiles in its 128? VLS.
In return i would imagine the new 11-barrelled CIWS on '055', would make mincemeat of the slow moving American Harpoon missile, even if the Harpoon were to get past the Chinese anti-missile missiles.
Basically the European warships, do not have an advanced anti-ship capability, and certainly not enough missiles anyway!
Luckily, for us i think the Chinese like us British, though i'am not sure if they like those other funny European peoples
Regarding the engines on current Chinese Destroyers........'
ChineseTiger1986' is correct in the information he has posted!
