It was 568, on loan for shooting a fiction TV series on PLA Marine corp,
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With over 25 Jianghus still in PLAN active service and all production lines at capacity it'll be years before China can just spare two 054s to PN.
My suggest is for PN to co-fund an aird-defense variant of 054 series
What they need to do is to take advantage of the hyper competitiveness internal to china's defense industry.
the guys who lost out on 052C radar contract would love to put their wares on a different platform.
the guys who developed HHQ-16 (in Shanghai btw, the perenial loser in any surface to air missile contracts) would love to have an active extended range active homing version of HHQ-16, couple to something like a chinese SAMPSON + Smart-L (or APAR), competitive with the ype H/LJG-346 SAPARS + HQ-9 combo.
Think about it.
a 054 version with 24 Long range HHQ-16+ and 12x4 quad pack short range SAM and HHQ-10 CIWS. instead of that Type 364 Radar you have AESA targeting radar and a Smart-L in the back stack.