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antiterror13
Brigadier
10 Type 055? .. are you kidding? I am sure Australian navy could be destroyed by 10 Type 055
I think 2 Type 055 and 2 Type 052D plus 1 093B would do the job just fine
But this is hypothetical scenario and it will not happen. Why would you want to destroy Aussie navy?
UVLS is not the same size as Mark 41, particularly on 055 which have more 9m strike versions of UVLS. It's a much larger scale weapon than Mark 41 and so can be armed with things like YJ-21. Weather or not SM-6 or SM-2 can actually stop a YJ-21 is still an open question.
The point here is 055 is much more powerful than any frigate or destroyer in RAN service (or anyone's service really) and PLAN has nine more back at home with more on the way, never mind the numerous 052D also armed with UVLS. Australian have an incorrect mental image of China's naval strength which hopefully this and future demonstrations will correct.
supercat
Colonel
The commentator really doesn't know the differences between manned and unmanned platforms? Or more likely, he is just being deliberately obtuse.
Falun Gong, nuff said. BTW, this is how FLG got its funding.
Bombing the Nord Stream pipelines has its consequences. What a surprise!
Some West-worshiping Chinese will pay more for a Western brand, from coffee to Tesla EVs, despite the wide availability of more cost- effective Chinese alternatives. However, the number of such people is diminishing by the day.
Obviously if China actually want to invade Australia China will send more than two ships and it'll be after dealing with the US, but that doesn't mean there's no entertainment value in thought exercises:
- How VLS cells are filled depends on the mission, so how they're filled "most of the time" doesn't matter, what matters is are they capable of being filled to achieve the mission.
- Type 055 is capable of being loaded with 48x >1000km range anti ship hypersonics
- Australian navy has no fixed wing carriers so it's a purely naval
- Australian navy has 3x Hobart class DDG and 7x Anzac class frigates capable of firing anti air missiles, of which only the 3x Hobart class has ability track incoming hypersonics and only one ship carry SM6 to even make an attempt at intercept.
- For ASM Australia has Harpoons and NSM, both with <250km range
- All other Australian navy ships are not combat relevant.
So in the ought exercise, yes a single Type 055 operating at ~1000km standoff range from Australian coast and with satellite targeting can very much annihilate the entire Australian navy if engagement started within range.
Then the actual reason you'll need to bring multiple is to cover all sides of Australia so they can't simply run.
Australian airforce does have 7x KC30A tankers which will be required to allow their F-35s get within ASM engagement distance of Type 055 at standoff distance, and this is where the remaining VLS across the Type 055 and Type 054 comes in, and this is of course ignoring Australia lack any long distance detection, and that their NSM inventory is actually zero as of 2025.
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One cannot simply run from a Type 055.
maybe it's the Hanji "ZhongGuo"characters that they tried to scratch off
Is it just me or does he look like a bond villain?
He can't dress himself-look at how badly he tied his tie-Oddjob dressed better
The colonel's language is similar to that of the following scene in Nezha 2. There were online speculation that the scene was a reference to Taiwan long before the colonel's speech.
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