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052C/052D Class Destroyers
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Isn't that assigned to Chengdu ( no.12) ?
Chinese wiki says one of these dual launch ships will have 122 pennant, named as tangshan
According to 龙龑之 / @loongnaval from Twitter; '131' Taiyuan will be attending to JMSDF Naval Review.
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Nice, and this baby would be an equivalent of Japanese Atago or Kongo class ?
I think Atago may be more capable than 052D in many aspects
I believe their primary roles are quite different. 052D is more of a multi-purpose vessel while both Atago and Kongo are AAW focused vessels with exceptional BMD capability. Which is why I'd personally avoid such comparisons.
Two designs based on different doctrines of conception.
The Atago is mainly a anti-air vessel. It carries a lot of mk-41 cells thanks to their medium size. It's not a problem as anti-air missiles mainly evolve through new stages, adding length and not diameter. As such a single hull can carry as many anti-air missiles as possible.
In comparison a Type 52D carries much bigger cells and as such more capable missiles (recently we had first real images of the ship-based YJ-18 and it's gigantic in diameter~650mm at least). HHQ-9 and CY-1/5 are also quite big. These missiles can't hold in an Mk-41 cell like the one found on the Atago. Bigger cells, but it means less by Sq meters so less cells in overall. One would defines it as a multirole vessel.
In term of electronics they're very similar imo.
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I'm fairly certain a CY-1 could fit inside a 650x650mm Mk-41 cell, since it looks to be very much in the same class as VLA. I think even an S-300 could also fit into a Mk 41 given that its wings fold, so its total dimensions will not be much greater than its diameter of 500mm. Which means that HHQ-9 could fit for sure since it's smaller than an S-300.