Wergeland
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None of these ships are armed with those missiles you mentioned. DF-100 is land based and truck mounted, so is DF-17. DF-17 is definitely too big to be launched from ships. DF-100 maybe able to fit on 055 but I doubt it, but definitely not 052D, as its VL tubes are too small for that.
052 is mainly for fleet air defense and ASW duties, and 055 have more surface-to-surface capabilities. It does have its own land-attack missiles, and most likely will be able to launch land attack cruise missiles in the future, whether there will be any hypersonic versions developed for that, it will be interesting to see in the years to come...
I thought 052 and 055 VLS cells are same dimensions. That they are universal.
Long range hypersonic missiles, launched from destroyers, is definately something i can see China working on. Especially the anti-ship versions. It makes sense A2AD wise.