054/A FFG Thread II
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After the overhaul, none at all.
But there were changes to the ship before the overhaul was made. The first is a skirt, or an set of arrays underneath the Type 382 search radar. I am not sure what it is, I got some suspects. The second is a much more common retrofit that's being added and spreading to the fleet, and that is a flat panel SATCOM (datalink?) placed on top of hanger that uses a small phase array. Some 054A has two of these on each side on top of the hanger, but with 529, one was placed on the center spine on top of the hanger.
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
a very good FFG
this programme proved to be very successful
it also helped China secure the export orders
time to move onto the Type 052B
this programme proved to be very successful
it also helped China secure the export orders
time to move onto the Type 052B
Found it.
Look closely at the covers below the arrays. They look extremely similar if not the same as the module we can find below the CDF system of the Type 52D, at the end of the mast.
Now for it's purpose I think it's part of the CDF. Because type 52C had two adock antennas, then only one was kept for type 52D and this module came. Now we have the similar covers on the type 54A..
They look like VHF folded dipoles to me with weather protection. Aside from 529, it appears with another first batch 054A with the 3rd Destroyer Division, possibly 530.
These antennas were not part of the overhaul but not with the ship in her original form. They were fitted to the ship far after she was already in service, possibly as a test prototype. Whatever the results the PLAN is not satisfied with their location, possibly due to interference, so they were transferred somewhere else. The last four Type 054A featured the arrays but they are now located on the aft mast around the Type 364 radar.
Any know the dimensional measurement of single VLS cell of Type-54A .... ???Re-posting some lost images. Reloading the VLS magazine.
