052C/052D Class Destroyers

GreenestGDP said:

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Reportedly 175.

Before we even have a confirmation of 174?

kriss said:

Before we even have a confirmation of 174?

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Over on CDF it's said this ship is 174... but hard to tell.

But both 174 and 175 are essentially confirmed. With hulls 3-7 all in various stages of sea trials and fitting out, and another hull at JN under construction and two hulls at DL in construction, we do not really need confirmation as such of various hull numbers, the hard part is identifying which ship will actually be given which exact pennant number before they're actually commissioned... but the usefulness of such a task may not be very important compared to actually counting the number of ships.

I found my post might be misunderstand the moment I posted it but for some reason "edit" button doesn't like me. I mean confirmed photo of a specific and numbered ship of course. Any idea is the number not painted yet or psed out?

Btw, it's important to identify specific ships. Count numbers can only tall you how many of the ships are there but you would not know what status of each of them thus don't know how many of them are "ready". Without number we could mistake two different ships as one, or take one as two.

kriss said:

I found my post might be misunderstand the moment I posted it but for some reason "edit" button doesn't like me. I mean confirmed photo of a specific and numbered ship of course. Any idea is the number not painted yet or psed out?

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The Chinese Navy only puts a pennant number aboard their ships once they are commissioned or very shortly before they are commissioned.
I imagine it is for opsec.

Btw, it's important to identify specific ships. Count numbers can only tall you how many of the ships are there but you would not know what status of each of them thus don't know how many of them are "ready". Without number we could mistake two different ships as one, or take one as two.

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I agree with this, but it is also quite difficult to do unfortunately, for the Chinese Navy, especially for a serial production ship where a single shipyard may produce many units all at slightly differing stages of fitting out or sea trials.
Practically speaking, trying to identify how many of the ships are "ready" and how "ready" each are, is quite difficult and at best we can only ID how many ships might be in each stage, but difficult to separate the progress of each ship within each stage.

052D 174 in Sanya naval base.

Edit: looking more closely, it might be 172, although the poster on CJDBY said it is 174.

174

Wow, that's 2 x 052Ds and 1 x 052C.

plawolf said:

Wow, that's 2 x 052Ds and 1 x 052C.

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I myself am partial to this picture, from earlier this year: two 052Ds, one 052C and two 054As at yulin.. More than enough to provide escort for a CSG.



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If that really is 174 with its pennant number, I wonder if it means we will actually end up seeing an additional commissioning this year... not many days left, but it's still possible.

It will be neat if the Navy can manage a regular two commissionings per year for 052Ds in the next few years, similar to 054As in previous years.