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Video: PLAN Type 056 Corvette Testing its Weapons at Sea Including HQ-10 RAM-Like CIWS.
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Video: PLAN Type 056 Corvette Testing its Weapons at Sea Including HQ-10
RAM-Like CIWS |
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China Central Television news channel (CCTV 13) released a video showing
the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) Type
056 Corvette (Jiangdao class) Quanzhou in a live fire exercise.
The video is interesting as it shows a live launch of the HQ-10 close-in
weapon system (CIWS) which is often compared to the American RIM-116
Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) system. |
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The
HQ-10 is an octuple launcher fitted aft on Type 056 corvettes. The missile
itself is said to feature a combined guidance system that incorporates
both passive radio frequency (RF) guidance and imaging infrared (ImIR)
guidance. The export designation of the system is FL-3000N. The PLAN Corvette Quanzhou (hull number 588) was commissioned with the PLAN's East Sea Fleet in August 2014. In the video, we can see the crew being scrambled to "action stations" or "general quarters" (0:30), the corvette in heavy seas (0:50), the HQ-10 operator (0:55) and the actual HQ-10 launch (0:59). In addition, there is a target drone launched from the helicopter platform (1:09), live fire with the H/PJ-26 76mm main gun (1:14) and H/PJ-17 30mm gun system (2:00) and a torpedo launch (2:07). |
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Video: Live fire exercise of PLAN Type 056 Corvette Quanzhou |
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According to a Chinese MOD statement, Type 056 Corvettes are new-generation
light guided missile frigates independently developed by China. The class
has a length of 89 meters, a beam of 11 meters and a full-load displacement
of 1,500 tons. To date, 24 vessels of the class have been commissioned with the PLAN, including the newer Type 056A variant featuring a variable depth sonar. Link to Type 056 Corvette (Jiangdao class) datasheet |
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