No the pirates are just that powerful.
052C/052D Class Destroyers
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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They've got Harpoon missiles and Blackhawk helicopters to board your oil tankers, definitely needs 052D level anti-piracy defense.
Quite the other way around.
While there is a base at Djibouti, it's still a long-range deployment.
Furthermore, it's a deployment to a rather important region where "face" matters quite a lot. Modern-looking destroyer gets you more of this "face".
Yeah they comes from subs too.
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asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
these anti-piracy missions must continue
they give China a experience no where else can provide
as a matter of fact its probably the best move China ever made back in 2009
Emblems for DDG 162, 163, 164, and 165.
Filling 160 and 166 should complete this division. I expect the new destroyers being made will eventually fill these pennants. It would be cool if 166 gets the Zhuhai name again.
An interesting article on the performance of the Type 346 radars on board the Type 052C and Type 052D. The author estimates the performance of the radar onboard the Type 052D to be at least a match for the SPY-1D(V) radar on the more recent Arleigh Burke Flight IIA ships, despite producing only half the radiative power.
I think overall, that was well written. I think it's reasonable to assume that the 052c radar had less range than spy 1d, which may somewhat be compensated by the superior properties of aesa radar. On the other hand, there is a chance 052d radar is using gallium nitride modules. The average power of gan modules could be 2 to 3 times that of gaa modules. So 055 is going to have some of the most powerful radar ever. If 052d uses gaa modules, it should also have longer range than spy1d. If not, I would still expect 25 to 50% improvement in power per modules over the 052c modules