Type 056 OPV/Corvette

Originally Posted by no_name

Is second pic the ship for export to Bangladesh?

Yes, BN LPC hull 1.

Originally Posted by antiterror13

1800 ton ships armed with four C-903 anti-ship missiles ? .. new AShM

Surface Forces: New Chinese Corvette Class Enters Service

New Chinese Corvette Class Enters Service
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September 2, 2012: In August China commissioned its first Type 056 corvette. These are 1,800 ton ships armed with four C-903 anti-ship missiles (200 kilometers range), a FL-3000N anti-aircraft missiles (nine kilometers range) launcher (with eight missiles), two 30mm remotely controlled autocannon and one 76mm gun. The ship has air and sea search radars and will be used mainly for coastal patrol. Nine more are under construction and at least sixteen are planned.
The 056s will replace an aging fleet of Type 053 class frigates. It was one of these ships, the Dongguan, that ran aground on a reef off the Philippines coast near Half Moon Shoal last July. This happened 111 kilometers from the Philippines (Palawan Island) and over 1,100 kilometers from the Chinese mainland. Letting a 2,400 ton warship (carrying a crew of 200) to move around in these shallow and treacherous waters at night is asking for trouble. The waters west of the Philippines (including all the reefs, shoals, atolls, and islets claimed by China) are shallow and full of obstacles just under the water. Even shallow draft fishing boats proceed carefully and usually just in daylight. GPS and recent efforts to fully map (chart) the area have made it safer but only for those who proceed with care. China eventually got the Dongguan off the reef. A Type 056, which has a shallower draft, would probably not have gone aground in the first place.

China recently upgraded the Dongguan and the other five Type 053H1G frigates, apparently in order keep them in service for another decade or more. Originally built in the 1990s, the six Type 053H1G ships were the last of 53 Type 053s built over about twenty years. Based on the older Russian Riga class frigate, the Chinese expanded the original 1,400 ton Riga (armed with depth charges, three 100mm guns, and torpedoes) design, to a missile laden 2,500 ton vessel equipped with modern electronics. The few Type 053s still in service are mainly used for coastal patrol. But the 053 design grew too large for this job, and the smaller Type 056 sets that right.

Why are you using strategypage as your source? It clearly has no clue what it's talking about. I think it was trying to say C-803, which ironically also does not exist.

A little off topic with the Bangladesh LPC, but supposedly three with be built. It's 64 m long with a displacement of 648 tons and top speed of 28 knots.

btw Namibia also got delivered a Chinese corvette few months ago it was reported on Janes Defence

shipbuilding in China has become so advanced it seems like if any country has a requirment China can make the design and within a few months have the ship under construction with a weapons layout which meets the needs of the customer, plus at a price that the country can afford at breakneck speed, good times for all

Originally Posted by tphuang

Why are you using strategypage as your source? It clearly has no clue what it's talking about. I think it was trying to say C-803, which ironically also does not exist.

A little off topic with the Bangladesh LPC, but supposedly three with be built. It's 64 m long with a displacement of 648 tons and top speed of 28 knots.

The C-803 doesn't exist ?

Originally Posted by Franklin

The C-803 doesn't exist ?

C802 or YJ83, no C803.

Actually I believe C-803 exist, it is another name for YJ-83.

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另外，供歼轰-7A和轰-6使用的“鹰击-83”(C-803K)新型反舰导弹也于2002年11月完成了最大射程试验。

Originally Posted by rhino123

Actually I believe C-803 exist, it is another name for YJ-83.

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C-80X are export designations, so far only YJ81 and YJ82 were exported so only C801 and C802(A) existed, thus technically the designation C803 doesn't exist yet. Plus it's a Russian article cross posted by Global Times, so yeah, not legit.

Originally Posted by rhino123

Actually I believe C-803 exist, it is another name for YJ-83.

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YJ-## are for local use. Export missiles have the C-### designation.
YJ-81 - C-801, YJ-82 - C-802, YJ-62 - C-602, etc
I have not seen YJ-83 offered for export.
Similarly, C-701/703, C-704 have been exported but is not used locally. So no "YJ" designation such as YJ-74.

I don't agree with that. YJ-82 is the submarine launched version of YJ-8/A. YJ-81 is the air launched version of YJ-8/A. We've clearly seen air launched and sea launched versions of C-802. C-802AKD's best domestic corollary for example is KD-88. C-802A seems the most comparable to YJ-83. There is also CM-802AKG, which seems to be comparable to other variants of KD-88.

Originally Posted by A.Man

No. 1 & 2 056's of Hudong or No. 1 & No. 5 of total



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Dang! Those are very nice looking and capabple OPVs. They will serve the PLAN well and in some significant numbers is my bet. Very nice lines.

Originally Posted by Jeff Head

Dang! Those are very nice looking and capabple OPVs. They will serve the PLAN well and in some significant numbers is my bet. Very nice lines.

Most of the new PLAN warship are very stealthy by modern definition, but I been thinking about US navy's next generation warship the Zumwalt class destroyer, the stealth feature is just out of the league, there nothing on the surface, no radar dooms, no mass, just one smooth superstructure, I wonder how can they come up with this technology, because the current warship in inventory are not stealthy at all, you can see life boats hanging on the sides of Arleigh Burke, so how can they jump from no stealth to total stealth, while completely ignore the stage of semi stealth like PLAN and all other warships produced around the world.

Originally Posted by jackliu

Most of the new PLAN warship are very stealthy by modern definition, but I been thinking about US navy's next generation warship the Zumwalt class destroyer, the stealth feature is just out of the league, there nothing on the surface, no radar dooms, no mass, just one smooth superstructure, I wonder how can they come up with this technology, because the current warship in inventory are not stealthy at all, you can see life boats hanging on the sides of Arleigh Burke, so how can they jump from no stealth to total stealth, while completely ignore the stage of semi stealth like PLAN and all other warships produced around the world.

Just because the USN did not produce and field any destroyers with "semi-stealth" before progressing to "full-stealth" doesn't mean there isn't R&D in the background or in other classes. The LCS(s) are "semi-stealth". As for Zumwalt being minimal, the USS Monitor from the Civil War was pretty minimal too. Concept of stealth isn't new at all.

Sea Shadow was built in 1984 to develop stealth ships of future US Navy. And latest AB destroyers have very good stealth features.

Sea Shadow was built in 1984 and used in secret but normal service until her public debut in 1993, to examine the application of stealth technology on naval vessels. In addition, the ship was designed to test the use of automation to enable the reduction of crew size. The ship was created by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Navy and Lockheed. ""

I guess LCS is the example that I am looking for, however looking at the ships, you can still see the conventional mass and sensor equipment attached, but I wonder how can they do the same Zumwalt with almost complete smooth surfaces.

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