052C/052D Class Destroyers

snake65

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By the way that module looks like on the barrel. Seems they are testing (newer 052d?) and also straight ocean.
By the way that module looks like on the barrel. Seems they are testing (newer 052d?) and also straight ocean.
Havnt seen this before at the Chinese.
I am curious if they use splash spotting with their fcs to and adjust according to.
Do they also still use TDS's on their modern ships?
That's a sensor for ballistic computer.
 

navyreco

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Pictures: Two PLAN Type 052D Destroyers in Live Fire Exercise
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The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) Type 052D Destroyers (NATO reporting name Luyang III class) Kunming and the Hefei sailed to high sea and conducted live-ammunition training recently.
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Jeff Head

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Here's what I am showing for the first twelve Type 052D DDG builds:

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SSF (Built at Jiangnan)
DDG-172 - Commissioned L:08/2012, C:3/2014
DDG-173 - Commissioned L:12/2012, C:3/2014
DDG-174 - Commissioned L:07/2013, C:3/2014
DDG-175 - Sea Trials L:03/2014

ESF (Building at Jiangnan)
DDG-154 - Launched, Outfitting L:07/2015
DDG-155 - Launched, Outfitting L:12/2015
DDG-156 - Building
DDG-157 - Building

North sea Fleet (Building at Dalian)
DDG-117 - Launched, Outfitting L:11/2015
DDG-118 - Building
DDG-119 - Funded/Planned
DDG-120 - Funded/Planned

I take this from the following:

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Anyone else know anything about tthis publication? It's accuracy? Forbin? NavyReco? Tphunag? Bltizo?

This shows seven Type 052Ds luanched, with three commissioned. Two or three more should be launched in 2016, and another two in 2017 to round out these first twelve. I am not sure what the plans are thereafter, but I would be surprised in the PLAN did not keep building more.

When you couple this with the six Type 052C vessels, this is an extremely potent and powerful modern guided missile destroyer force in and of itself.

With the Type 052s being updated, the Type 051B being updated, the Sov updates (those three classes add seven more large. modern destroyers), and with the advent of the Type 055s soon...well, the PLAN surface combatant force becomes second only to the US Navy on the entire planet..

I'll show all of the Type 052C and Type 052Ds in the next three or four posts.
 
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