052C/052D Class Destroyers

[no_name]

The house simply have to be strong enough to shield from weather element and be transparent to the operating frequency band of interest.

It's probably a big dish inside that can be pointed at different directions.

 

[snake65]

Is there an advantage or disadvantage to a certain housing shape?

Well, generally speaking, the housing shape should create nil interference with transmitting/receiving. That's all.

 

[Ultra]

Just saw this pretty good documentary about the history of Type 052's development :

 

[Ultra]

A documentary about Type 052D :

The interesting thing about this one is that they revealed Type 346A radar has a range of 350 KM (@0:46)- although they didn't say against how large of the target they achieve this result.
Another thing they revealed is the PJ-38 130mm naval gun (@1:16) which has a rate of fire of 40 round/minute with a range of 29.5 km.

 

[SpicySichuan]

A documentary about Type 052D :

The interesting thing about this one is that they revealed Type 346A radar has a range of 350 KM (@0:46)- although they didn't say against how large of the target they achieve this result.
Another thing they revealed is the PJ-38 130mm naval gun (@1:16) which has a rate of fire of 40 round/minute with a range of 29.5 km.

The 350km range is cited as "sources speculate." Also it is not specific whether the 350km range is directed against airplanes, cruise missiles, or enemy ships. I would not be too sure for now.

 

[SpicySichuan]

A documentary about Type 052D :

The interesting thing about this one is that they revealed Type 346A radar has a range of 350 KM (@0:46)- although they didn't say against how large of the target they achieve this result.
Another thing they revealed is the PJ-38 130mm naval gun (@1:16) which has a rate of fire of 40 round/minute with a range of 29.5 km.

Plus I though that the U.S. and Japanese SPY-1D has a range of 1,000km against air targets.

 

[Franklin]

A documentary about Type 052D :

The interesting thing about this one is that they revealed Type 346A radar has a range of 350 KM (@0:46)- although they didn't say against how large of the target they achieve this result.
Another thing they revealed is the PJ-38 130mm naval gun (@1:16) which has a rate of fire of 40 round/minute with a range of 29.5 km.

I think that 350km is just a reference range for the public. The true range of that radar is a secret. Every military in the world does that. They give a number for public consumption but only the insiders know the true capabilities of a weapons system.

 

[Skywatcher]

Plus I though that the U.S. and Japanese SPY-1D has a range of 1,000km against air targets.

That's likely against something close to space or actually in orbit.

The SPY-1D would have to figure a way around the curvature of the Earth if it wanted to see, say, a H-6K running at 10km altitude 1,000km away.

 

[FORBIN]

 

[SpicySichuan]

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