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China Commissioned the First Type 272 Icebreaker Haibing With PLAN North Sea Fleet.
| 2016
Video of the commissioning ceremony |
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There is
a helicopter platform on the Haibing 722 where one Z-8 helicopter can
take off and land. PLA Navy's first generation Haibing 722, the newly-built icebreaker's predecessor, was made in Qiuxin Ship Plant in Shanghai with the approval of the Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai (1898-1976) in 1969. The construction only spent 103 days and the icebreaker was launched on Dec. 26, 1969. After 44 years of active service in the PLA Navy, the icebreaker retired in June 2013. During its decades-long service time, the first generation Haibing 722 performed various missions with flying colors including search and rescue, breaking ice and piloting ships, investigating ice conditions, conducting training exercises and so on. Besides the Haibing 722, on the list of those Chinese naval ships which have inherited the name or hull number of their previous-generation ships are the Type-052B guided missile destroyer Guangzhou, the Type-052D guided missile destroyers Kunming, Jinan, Xi'an and Changsha as well as the Type-056 corvette Fushun. |
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