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People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Destroyer and Frigates conduct
high-sea training
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A
ship formation of the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation
Army (PLA) sailed to the West Pacific Ocean to conduct regular high-sea
training on the eve of the Chinese Spring Festival. The ship formation
is composed of the “Qingdao” guided missile destroyer, the
“Yantai” guided missile frigate and the “Yancheng”
guided missile frigate of the North China Sea Fleet of the Navy of the
PLA, and all the three ships are home-made warships. |
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PLAN (Chinese
Navy) “Qingdao” guided missile destroyer, Type 052 Luhu-class
(picture: Chinese Internet)
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The
“Qingdao” guided missile destroyer is known as a “diplomatic
star” ship in the Navy of the PLA. As a home-made second-generation
guided missile destroyer, the “Qingdao” ship has participated
in 50-odd major combat readiness and exercise tasks including the escort
mission in the Gulf of Aden, and visited 19 ports of 17 countries on
behalf of the Navy of the PLA for five times since its commissioning
in 1993. In 2002, as the commanding ship of a ship formation, the “Qingdao”
guided missile destroyer sailed across three oceans and five continents,
crossed the equator for six times, successfully completing an around-the-world
tour, the first of its kind in the history of the Navy of the PLA, covering
33,000 nautical miles in 132 days. |
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PLAN (Chinese
Navy) "Yantai" Frigate, Type 054A class
(picture: Chinese Internet)
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The
“Yantai” and “Yancheng” guided missile frigates
are sister ships and also China’s latest-type guided missile frigates,
and each of them has a mighty and splendid body. The two ships were
delivered to the North China Sea Fleet of the Navy of the PLA in 2011
and 2012 respectively. Due to their advanced weaponry and equipment
and optimized body design, the two frigates realize information resource
sharing and comprehensive weaponry control, and have various operational
functions, such as anti-ship, anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and fire
support to the coast, thus currently they are the warships with a higher
modernization level in the Navy of the PLA. The “Yantai”
ship took part in the escort operations in the Gulf of Aden several
months later after its commissioning. The “Yancheng” ship
participated in live-ammunition exercises and oceangoing tasks in the
first year of its service. |
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PLAN (Chinese
Navy) "Yancheng" Frigate, Type 054A class
(picture: Chinese Internet)
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In terms of volume and weight, the “Qingdao” ship is a little
bit “heavy-set”. It has a length of 144 meters, a width
of 15.6 meters, a full-load displacement of 4,800 tons and a maximum
speed of 32 knots. The “Yantai” ship and the “Yancheng”
ship have a length of 134 meters, a width of 16 meters and a full-load
displacement of 4,050 tons.
From: Chinese Ministry of National Defense |
