052C/052D Class Destroyers
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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About 25. 31 if you include the 052C.
Next 052DL expected to come into service would be 132 Suzhou. Goes into service with the same group as 136/137/138/139 Project 956. She's likely already in that group doing final trials, crew training and certification.
Life at sea. Spray downs and live firings.
Nice pictures. Should be 155 Nanjing.
120 has Type 1130 CIWS. This one has 730 CIWS. Only one ship has 730 combined with the Type 346A array without near field calibration probe, which means the array is calibrated internally right in the array itself. That is 155, which is situated between the batch 1 and batch 2 production. Batch 2 has probeless arrays with 1130 CIWS. Calibration probe is that wiper thingie underneath the array. If they need to replace a broken module during sea, they have to recalibrate the whole array.
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lcloo
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Are you sure? This is from official PLA website Chinamil.com:-
The guided-missile destroyer Chengdu (Hull 120) attached to a naval vessel training center under the PLA Northern Theater Command fires its close-in weapons system against mock aerial targets during a 3-day maritime training exercise from November 4 to 6, 2020. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Zou Xiangmin)
I have to recheck pictures of 120 Chengdu. If I am in error I would correct my database, but I distinctly remember her having Type 1130 guns, as she is a Batch 2 ship. These photos show Type 730 CIWS.