The Type 052B (NATO/
OSD Luyang I-class destroyer
) is a
class
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of
guided-missile destroyer
A guided-missile destroyer (DDG) is a destroyer whose primary armament is guided missiles so they can provide anti-aircraft warfare screening for the fleet. The NATO standard designation for these vessels is DDG, while destroyers which have a pr ...
s in the
Chinese
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People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force
The People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force is the surface warfare branch of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN), consisting of all surface ship, surface vessels in operational service with the PLAN. The PLAN Surface Force operate ...
(PLAN). The Type 052B was China's first modern destroyer design
[Kirchberger (2015): page 195][McDevitt (2017): page 57] and the first Chinese design to incorporate true medium-range air defence capability in the form of
Russia
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n Shtil-1 (improved navalized
Buk, NATO designation SA-N-12)
surface-to-air missile
A surface-to-air missile (SAM), also known as a ground-to-air missile (GTAM) or surface-to-air guided weapon (SAGW), is a missile designed to be launched from the ground or the sea to destroy aircraft or other missiles. It is one type of anti-ai ...
s (SAM).
[Schwartz (2015): page 26]
Two ships - ''
Guangzhou
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'' and ''
Wuhan
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'' - were begun in 2001 and commissioned in July and December 2004 respectively.
Programme
In the early 2000's, China pursued multiple - and sometimes concurrent - programmes to acquire modern destroyers, purchasing s from Russia and constructing the Type 052B,
Type 051C, and
Type 052C
The Type 052C destroyer (NATO/ OSD Luyang II-class destroyer) is a class of guided-missile destroyers in the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force (PLAN). The Type 052C introduced both fixed active electronically scanned array (AE ...
.
[Kirchberger (2015): page 193] These ships also represented steps to develop adequate air defense capabilities by adopting Russian air defense technology.;
[Schwartz (2015): pages 25] the 25-km range Uragan (navalized Buk, NATO designation SA-N-7) on the ''Sovremenny''; the 35-km range Shtil-1 on the Type 052B; long-range area air defense with the 150-km range Rif-M (navalized
S-300, NATO designation SA-N-20) on the Type 051C;
and finally the Chinese 100-km range
HHQ-9
The HQ-9 ( zh, s=红旗-9, t=紅旗-9, p=Hóng Qí-9, l=Red Banner-9; NATO reporting name: CH-SA-9.) is a long-range semi-active radar homing (SARH) surface-to-air missile (SAM) developed by the People's Republic of China. The naval variant is ...
(S-300 derivative) on the Type 052D.
[Schwartz (2015): pages 26-28]
The Type 052B's air defence capabilities were obsolete upon entering service when compared to contemporary American and Japanese designs.
Nonetheless it represented a considerable general improvement over previous Chinese warships
and was the precursor to later Chinese air warfare destroyers.
[McDevitt (2017): page 58]
Design
The hull is based on the
Type 051B destroyer
''Shenzhen'' is a guided-missile destroyer operated by China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). It is the sole Type 051B destroyer (NATO reporting name: Luhai).
Development and design
In the 1990s and early 2000s, the PLAN began developin ...
with added stealth features.
Ships of Class
Gallery
Type 052B Guangzhou in Leningrad.jpg, Type 052B destroyer ''Guangzhou'' (168) in Saint Petersburg, Russia
File:South Sea Fleet 20150610.jpg, 052B in the South China Sea
File:PLANS Wuhan (DDG-169) 20150610.jpg, Wuhan (169) in the western Pacific
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