055 Large Destroyer Thread II

[siegecrossbow]

Guess it’s indirect confirmation that the panel on the side of the ship is a radar of some sort, not communications antenna.

 

[no_name]

Maybe for better sea skimming search.

 

[Blitzo]

Maybe for better sea skimming search.

Do you actually believe this?

Why would they put sea skimming arrays on the side of the ship (leaving blind spots on the front and rear aspects of the ship), on the flanks of the hull (lower down, thus shorter radar horizon)??

Especially when we know they have the integrated mast on top of the deckhouse with multiple sets of fixed face arrays (which we've had consensus for years that at least one of them is likely for a surface search AESA setup)??

 

[sequ]

Most likely an L/UHF-band radar for LO targets.

 

[douglaxd]

I think it's too small to be something like that. Smaller low frequency radars don't perform very well in range even against LO targets. Wasn't the popular theory that it performed electronic warfare functions, something like SEWIP Block-3?

 

[totenchan]

I mean it seems to be in the perfect spot for EW antenna, and in a pretty awful spot for a radar and a really really bad spot for a communications antenna

 

[RKredfive]

A type 055 DDG launching a YJ-18 from the Aft UVLS Block.

A recent youtube video starting at 3min mark shows the launching of YJ-18

 

[A.Man]

055 launches 4 HG-9B missiles simultaneously:

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[ansy1968]

055 launches 4 HG-9B missiles simultaneously:

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Looks Ai to me.

 

[Fergus]

No this is from a Russia ship in 2017.

around the 2:32 mark.