re: PLAN Type 052 Class Destroyer
... but even in the list given, there are a whole bunch of '4's, not to mention, you know, 054. The PLA types strike me as fairly unsuperstitious and good for them.
It is also my impression that PLA is deliberately un-superstitious, in marked contrast to Taiwan.
The Kidd class DDG are 1801, 1802, 1803 and 1805, the Perry class 1101, 1103, 1105, 1106 , etc., the La Fayette class 1202, 1203, 1205, 1206, 1207, 1208.
But it is only 04 that is avoided. 554, 614, 934 are evidently OK.