052C/052D Class Destroyers
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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Thanks. So 3 052D + 1 055 this year, is that right? I was hoping 055 can be faster.
Some high-resolution images of DDG 121 carrying out a live-fire exercise.
It kind of looks to me that the target drones are fired off from a large auxiliary deep ocean tugboat.
From Henri Kenhmann
Google translate:
Refueling exercise in a naval base of the northern fleet, with in particular a Type 052D destroyer of the 3rd batch and its large metric radar in the background.
Isn't the HHQ-9 canister cylindrical?
It's only cylindrical for Type 52C, where the canister a navalised version of the HQ-9 (land). You can see it being loaded in the B-203 style drum launcher.
But then when you look at the Type 52D, you can see it has a much more squared shape.
I guess it's easier and more optimal when developing a new canister to make it square shaped. If the PLAN intends to develop new missiles for this class, they're probably gonna take this canister as a baseline.
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