052C/052D Class Destroyers

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Force structure, fleet comparison etc when discussed too much is outside of the scope of these kind of threads.

All 5 of the new batch 052DGs at Dalian docked together. Posted by @这丫头有点风 on Weibo.

ACuriousPLAFan said:

All 5 of the new batch 052DGs at Dalian docked together. Posted by @这丫头有点风 on Weibo.

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That right there is in one pic is more AEGIS-type destroyers than perhaps all countries apart from US, Japan, SK

xiabonan said:

That right there is in one pic is more AEGIS-type destroyers than perhaps all countries apart from US, Japan, SK

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and British type 45

AEGIS is a combat management system, not a radar/ AAW-configuration. And I note Spain operates five Alvaro de Bazan-hulls too. Though these sort of comparisons are all IMO neither here nor there.

xiabonan said:

That right there is in one pic is more AEGIS-type destroyers than perhaps all countries apart from US, Japan, SK

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This shows you that even if China procures hundreds of AEGIS ships, that would not be too ridiculous by proportion.

One of the new Dalian units.

para80 said:

AEGIS is a combat management system, not a radar/ AAW-configuration. And I note Spain operates five Alvaro de Bazan-hulls too. Though these sort of comparisons are all IMO neither here nor there.

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400 years later Spain finally have stronger surface combatants than Royal Navy.

At least one 052DG of the latest batch undergoing sea trials, spotted at Zhoushan (near Shanghai). Posted by @燃烧的哈尔科夫 on Weibo and @foolsball on Twitter.

The Google Earth satellite imagery of Jiangnan and Hudong-Zhonghua has been updated to 8 May 2024.

My earlier hunch about the 3rd unit of the new batch 055 at Jiangnan was wrong. There are currently 5 052DGs under construction and fitting out (marked in white), alongside 2 055s under construction and fitting out (marked in yellow) at Jiangnan.

Posted by @horobeyo on Twitter.