052C/052D Class Destroyers
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The height gives better radar horizon, allows radar to peep down the Earth curvature to detect sea skimming antiship missiles. A lower mounted radar would have a more difficult time in detecting these missiles in advanced. Once these missiles reached a low altitude, the earth curvature would hide them from the main radar.
A 3D radar would give a more precise altitude measurement of the target and it can act as a secondary radar tracking higher flying targets. Also being an AESA, with electronic scanning, it would have a higher and much faster scan rate over the mechanical radar.
In addition, the second radar has a much higher frequency bank that gives better resistance against sea clutter, namely unwanted echoes from the water surface that distracts from the real targets.
The US does a similar thing by installing SPQ-9B radar on top of AEGIS destroyer masts where previously it does not, and you have examples in the Russian Navy where the Pozitiv radar are mounted on a height, such as the Admiral Grigorovich frigates. The last two Sovremenny sold to the PLAN are also equipped with Pozitiv radar on a height, as per PLAN specification, while the first two did not. In the refit of the first two, the Type 364 was added to both.
drunkmunky
Junior Member
crazy.... the C looks so old now compared to the DL & 55
lcloo
Captain
The first type 052C was laid down in 2002 and commissioned in 2004. They are indeed showing their age. There are a lot of technology advancement during the last 20 years for PLAN.
Latest photo from Dalian. 4x 052DGs fitting out and/or undergoing trials, 1x 052DG remaining in the drydock.
The ship module preparation spaces right beside the drydock seems rather empty as well...
The ship module preparation spaces right beside the drydock seems rather empty as well...
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