Type 052 destroyer

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DDG 113 "Qingdao"
People's Republic of China People's Republic of China
Builders: Hudong Shipyard
Operators: Flag of People's Liberation Army Navy People's Liberation Army Navy
Preceding class: Type 051
Following class: Type 052B
In service: May 1994
Ships in Class
Ships in class: 2
Ships in active service: Harbin
Qingdao
General Characteristics
Class type: Multi-role guided missile destroyer
Displacement: 4,800 tons
Length: 144 m
Beam: 16 m
Draught: 5.1 m
Propulsion and power: CODOG
55,000 shp
Speed: 31 knots
Range: 5,000 miles
Complement: 260
Armament: 16 anti-ship missiles
32 surface-to-air missiles
2 dual purpose guns
8 anti-aircraft guns
Aircraft complement: 2 helicopters
Aircraft facilities: Single helicopter landing platform
Two helicopter hangar
Helicopter landing system

The Type 052 Luhu-class is one of the first modern multi-role missile-equipped destroyer built by China. It is one of the most advanced in PLAN's inventory, though the class still lags behind Western standards. There are currently two units in active service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) with no plans of further construction of additional units.

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[edit] History

Designed by the China Warship Design Institute (formerly the Seventh Academy of the Ministry of National Defense), the ships were built at Jiangnan Shipyard. No.112 Harbin was the first Luhu destroyer followed by No.113 Qingdao. The class is said to be the first indigenous Chinese warship design approaching modern standards, a significant improvement over the earlier Luda class. The Luhu made extensive use of foreign technologies that were accessible to the PRC prior to the Tiananmen Square incident of 1989. These included French-made radars and fire-control systems and the GE LM2500 gas turbine engines from the U.S., two of which power each ship.

Even with incorporation of Western technology, the chronic lack of adequate ship-borne air defense system have had great impact on the PLAN operations. Equipped with a small number of surface-to-air missile and guns with limited range and performance, Chinese warships had historically limited their operations within the area covered by their land-based aircraft. To rectify this trend, the Luhu destroyers, and the smaller Jiangwei class frigate , were fitted with the HQ-7 SAM that gives it much better air defense capability than any other previous Chinese design, though still limited to within visual range (WVR).

In spite of these advances, the Luhu still suffers in some areas such as electronic warfare and electronic counter-measures. The Chinese attempted to address these problems with the introduction of an improved Luhu design, the Luhai-class. This follow-on, essentially an enlarged Luhu, features improved electronics from foreign suppliers as well as more advanced weapons.

[edit] Ships in service

Harbin (DDG 112) entering San Diego harbor
Harbin (DDG 112) entering San Diego harbor

[edit] Specifications (post-refit)

  • Unit cost - > 1 billion renminbi yuan per ship by 1980's price
  • Propulsion CODOG config
  • Length - 467.8 feet / 142.6 meter
  • Beam - 49.5 feet / 15.3 meters
  • Draft - 16.7 feet / 5 meters
  • Displacement - 4,200 tons (standard), 4,800 tons (full load)
  • Speed - 31 knots
  • Endurance - 4,000 nm at 15 kt
  • Crew - 260 (40 officers)
  • C3I
  • Radar/Sonar
  • Armament
    • 4 x quad YJ-83 (C-803) AShM box launchers
    • 1 x 8-cell HQ-7 SAM with 32 missiles in auto-loader
    • 1 x Type PJ-33A dual 100 mm/56 caliber gun
    • 4 x Type 76A dual 37 mm AA guns
    • 2 x triple 324 mm Yu-7 ASW torpedo tubes
    • 2 x Type 75 (RBU-1200) 240 mm 12-tube ASW rocket launchers
    • 2 x Type 946 15-barrel chaff/decoy launcher
  • Helicopter
    • 2 x Kamov Ka-27 'Helix' or Harbin Z-9C (licensed copy of the Eurocopter Dauphin)

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