Chinese PLA Navy conducts exercises around Taiwan Island.

According to information published by Chinamil on August 3, 2022, the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) organizes joint combat training exercises in the northern, southwestern, and southeastern waters and airspace of the Taiwan Island, involving troops from the Navy (Type 052D destroyer Nanjing) and Air Force.
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Chinese Type 052D destroyer Nanjing (Picture source: Chinamil)

The exercises focus on key training sessions including joint blockade, sea target assault, strike on ground targets, airspace control operation, and the joint combat capabilities of the troops got tested in the military operations.

About the Type 052D destroyer Nanjing

Nanjing (155) is a Type 052D destroyer of the People's Liberation Army Navy. She was commissioned on 2 April 2018. Nanjing was the eighth ship of the class and launched on 28 December 2015 at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. Commissioned on 2 April 2018.

The Type 052D is equipped with Type 346A AESA and Type 518 L-band radar. It is also equipped with both variable depth (VDS) and linear towed array sonar.

The VDS is deployed through a hinged opening in the transom by a hydraulic lifting mechanism. The VDS body is a streamlined fairing fitted with Y-shaped hydrodynamic vanes for towing stability.

The powerplant is a combined diesel or gas (CODOG) system with two 28-megawatt (38,000 hp) QC-280 gas turbines and two 6 MW (8,000 hp) MTU 20V 956TB92 diesel engines. The machinery drives two shafts for a maximum speed of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph).

The Type 52D is the first Chinese surface combatant to use canister-based universal VLS, as opposed to the concentric type VLS carried aboard earlier vessels. 64 cells are carried; 32 forward and 32 aft. The VLS may fire the extended-range variant of the HHQ-9 surface-to-air missile, YJ-18 anti-ship cruise missiles, and CY-5 anti-submarine missiles.