055 DDG Large Destroyer Thread

[by78]

More magazine scans.

 

[by78]

Two interesting images of 101. The landing pad looks especially spacious for a naval Z-9.

 

[by78]

Another image of a Dalian-built unit near Yulin Naval Base.

 

[Deino]

Another image of a Dalian-built unit near Yulin Naval Base.

But it is not 105?

 

[by78]

But it is not 105?

It could be 105. This image was first shared on December 22, 2020, and was likely taken even earlier. The first image of 105 emerged around December 28, 2020. Its possible the pennant number was painted sometime in between. Or maybe it's a different unit althogether. TBH, I've lost track of the units long time ago due to heightened security and the large number of 055s being built.

 

[Tam]

Before or after 105 Dalian commissioning? If before, it can be a picture of 105 before she getting her pennant number. If after then we have a second 055 in the area. Any time stamp on the image?

 

[feilinreg]

With the way 055s pennants numbers are going, it makes it inherently difficult to track 055s potential fleet basing. Before, I realized that 101-129 numbers belong to North Sea Fleet, 130-159 to the ESF, and 160-199 to SSF. But now it's hard to tell with Type-055 #105 going to SSF.

Maybe the basing for 105-108 to the SSF are temporary, like PLAN just wants 4 055s for each 1 carrier. And since CV-17 might be going to SSF, they wanted 4 055s with her. Just like 4 055s with CV-16 in the NSF, for which their pennants (101-104) makes sense.

It's quite possible to attach current 055s numbers to carriers; essentially 4 055s for each carrier. And with the rumored 8 more being ordered (4 for Type-003/CV-18 and 4 more for the next Type-003/CV-19).

It's possible once those 8 055s and more are built, they will be a re-shuffle of ships with 105-108 joining the NSF and maybe the new ones taking appropriate pennant #s. I always had assumed new Destroyer squadrons would be created with 055s and 052Es filling 14x, 18x, and 19x pennant #s. And maybe PLAN creating another Destroyer squadrons with just 101-109/110 filled with 055s. destroyers.

This is all just pure speculation on my part.

Currently, the PLAN has 6 destroyer squadrons, from north to south,
12X is assigned to 10th squadron,
13X to 3rd squadron,
15X to 6th,
16X to 2nd,
17X to 9th.
But this rule only works for destroyer, for large destroyer, all these squadron will share same pennant numbers, 10X, 18X, and 19X.
For next batch of large destroyer, 055s, I assume they will start from 180.
Here 1st destroyer squadron is different because I guess it won’t get any new destroyers but large destroyers in short time. So the 11X is occupied by 1st and 10th now, but will be empty after all these destroyers retired.
With current speed, the number of destroyer will over 100 soon, then they will have new number, maybe 2XX

 

[Hitchhiker]

I am not sure how much trust we should have in the following source, but if true interesting.

Please, Log in or Register to view URLs content!

"CSIC (China State Shipbuilding Corporation Limited) ’s 701 Institution yesterday published an article entitled “A Love Letter to 10,000-ton One”, revealing information about Type 055 guided missile destroyer, including that it is using some homemade propulsion technology, which is new and unique in the world, indicating that China’s surface ship propulsion system has reached the international advanced level. This propulsion technology is not described in detail in the article, but it was presumed in August 2019 that medium-voltage DC electro-pushing system will be used for the second batch of Type 055 destroyers."

 

[by78]

Three older images to mark the one-year anniversary of 101 entering service.

 

[Appix]

Any information about the commissioning of the second Type 055?