China is giving a sneak peek of its growing naval might to show attendees.
Just over a year after the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy commissioned two new Type 052D destroyers - the Zhanjiang and the Jiaozuo – the naval guided-missile destroyer Zhanjiang departed a military port in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, on May 16, to attend the ongoing exhibition. The vessel carried a ship-borne helicopter and more than 200 crew members. LIMA 2023 marks the first military diplomatic mission for the destroyer that entered service more than a year after the decommissioning of the old Zhanjiang, a Type 051 destroyer, in August 2020. The Type 052D destroyer is a larger variant of the Type 052C but has a few significant differences. Unlike the to the concentric type vertical launching system (VLS) carried aboard earlier vessels, the Type 52D is the first Chinese surface combatant to use canister-based universal VLS. The VLS can fire the extended-range variant of CY-5 anti-submarine missiles, the HHQ-9 surface-to-air missile, and YJ-18 anti-ship cruise missiles. The destroyer also has a flat-paneled active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. The Type 052D is China’s first dedicated multi-role destroyer as the VLS is not limited to surface-to-air missiles. Among its features are a Type 346A AESA and Type 518 L-band radar, as well as variable depth (VDS) and linear towed array sonar. The destroyer’s powerplant is a combined diesel or gas (CODOG) system with two 28-megawatt (38,000 hp) QC-280 gas turbines and two 6 MW (8,000 hp) MTU 20V 956TB92 diesel engines. Its maximum speed 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph).
China is giving a sneak peek of its growing naval might to show attendees.
Just over a year after the Chinese People\'s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy commissioned two new Type 052D destroyers - the Zhanjiang and the Jiaozuo – the naval guided-missile destroyer Zhanjiang departed a military port in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, on May 16, to attend the ongoing exhibition. The vessel carried a ship-borne helicopter and more than 200 crew members. LIMA 2023 marks the first military diplomatic mission for the destroyer that entered service more than a year after the decommissioning of the old Zhanjiang, a Type 051 destroyer, in August 2020. The Type 052D destroyer is a larger variant of the Type 052C but has a few significant differences. Unlike the to the concentric type vertical launching system (VLS) carried aboard earlier vessels, the Type 52D is the first Chinese surface combatant to use canister-based universal VLS. The VLS can fire the extended-range variant of CY-5 anti-submarine missiles, the HHQ-9 surface-to-air missile, and YJ-18 anti-ship cruise missiles. The destroyer also has a flat-paneled active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. The Type 052D is China’s first dedicated multi-role destroyer as the VLS is not limited to surface-to-air missiles. Among its features are a Type 346A AESA and Type 518 L-band radar, as well as variable depth (VDS) and linear towed array sonar. The destroyer’s powerplant is a combined diesel or gas (CODOG) system with two 28-megawatt (38,000 hp) QC-280 gas turbines and two 6 MW (8,000 hp) MTU 20V 956TB92 diesel engines. Its maximum speed 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph).
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