052C/052D Class Destroyers

antiterror13 said:

Does it mean the 3rd 052D has been commissioned ?
well, a lot of fire power in one spot

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Typically, ships would conduct sea trials from a naval base prior to commissioning, and we've had pictures of new ships in sea trial without pennant numbers docked at naval bases, doing just that.

We haven't had suggestions or rumours that D3 is commissioned, so it is almost certain that she is there just for sea trials at this stage.

Of course, we can confirm that D2 AKA 173 is commissioned given it has a pennant number and we've had rumours of it commissioned. I don't think we've had official confirmation yet, but that isn't unheard of.

Jura said:

is it in Sanya on Hainan Island please?

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Hainan yes but two bases close Sanya :
Sanya 18°13'36.66"N 109°32'47.59"E and this one we have picture to Yalong Bay 18°12'32.79"N 109°41'6.67"EE recent base build about 10 years ago for DDG/FFG and Nuclear submarines.
2 very long piers about 1 km long and 4 of 250 m for submarines.
With in more underground facilities especialy for nuclear storage, warhead of JL-2.

Bltizo said:

Typically, ships would conduct sea trials from a naval base prior to commissioning, and we've had pictures of new ships in sea trial without pennant numbers docked at naval bases, doing just that.

We haven't had suggestions or rumours that D3 is commissioned, so it is almost certain that she is there just for sea trials at this stage.

Of course, we can confirm that D2 AKA 173 is commissioned given it has a pennant number and we've had rumours of it commissioned. I don't think we've had official confirmation yet, but that isn't unheard of.

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Exactly....i totally agree..........i mean in the past we have seen 052C's at bases long before they were commissioned into the fleet!

joshuatree said:

You left out the tug!

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Hehehe...I was just listing the surface combatants.

Jeff Head said:

Actually it is as shown in the photo:

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That's

2 x Type 052C
3 x Type 052D
1 x Type 056
3 x Type 054A

(Updated after clear evidence of 3 x Type 052D)

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Only for specify 056 visiting no homeported there.

Jeff Head said:

GREAT eye...it is definitely there! Here they are then:

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So that is then the following for surface combatants:

2 x Type 052C
3 x Type 052D
1 x Type 056
3 x Type 054A

I updated my earlier photo accordingly.

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Very powerful group of modern warships. It's easy to overlook how powerful PLAN is because its often compared with the USN, which still lags, but least we forget, just this one squadron is more powerful than most navies on the planet.

When it's all said and done SSF should have
1 x Carrier group
2 x Type 055
2 x Type 052C
4 x Type 052D
8 x Type 054A
4 x 095 or 093G
12 x 056

I don't think they should put all their assets in Sanya, it's could liable to suffer pearl harbor like sneak attack by opponents.

Their original Naval Base, which still fully functioning at Zhanjiang should host some of those assets. It's surrounded by land , so less vulnerable to sneak attack by enemy subs.

With current radar, etc, extremely unlikely "Pearl Harbour" attack would happen to major powers (Top 10)

Pearl Harbour didn't work out so great for the attacker last time around.

While I would not be so quick to rule such a sneak attack as an impossibility, the odds of success would be slim.

But most importantly, such an attack would simply not have the desired effect on the Chinese mentality - in that a devastating sneak first strike is not going to cow the Chinese people, if anything, it will fire them up and harden their determination to fight and win.

Just like America during WWII (probably more so in fact), it is China's industrial capacity that is the key to its power, rather than the size of its standing military force.

Unless someone could overwhelm China's existing forces and effective destroy or occupy its entire seaboard in a matter of weeks, China will shift its enormous civil manufacturing capacity to war goods, and then slowly but surely grind the enemy into oblivion through attrition if nothing else.

Short of an all out nuclear strike, no one, not even the US, has the military might to do that.

军工记忆 第二集 “052型”导弹驱逐舰
CCTV Official Documentary 052 DDG's