055 DDG Large Destroyer Thread

[lcloo]

Forget about the smoke funnel thing.

Here are names for first 7 ships as per Chinese wikipedia.

 

[Tam]

Would be interesting to know what 108's name would be. The number of names might be running out. My two bets:

Zhuhai. This is after the retirement of Type 051 no. 166 Zhuhai. So that name is now available, although it does have the potential of ending up with a 052D new batch.

Fushun. China's first four destroyers based on ex-Soviet Gnevny class were Anshan, Fushun, Changchun and Taiyuan. So three are taken, which leaves you with Fushun.

 

[by78]

Sailing out of Dalian...

 

[by78]

Jiangnan update. One of the last units from the first batch being fitted out.

Another image of the 101, courtesy of JMSDF.

 

[Rachmaninov]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1377131079841148928

From Henri Kenhmann
One of the Type 055 destroyers built in Dalian returns from a sea trial.

 

[Tam]

Not sure why the Dalian made ships have the funnels but the Jiangnan ships doesn't.

 

[para80]

Not sure why the Dalian made ships have the funnels but the Jiangnan ships doesn't.

The wind blows harder in Jiangnan.

 

[whisky]

Would be interesting to know what 108's name would be. The number of names might be running out. My two bets:

Zhuhai. This is after the retirement of Type 051 no. 166 Zhuhai. So that name is now available, although it does have the potential of ending up with a 052D new batch.

Fushun. China's first four destroyers based on ex-Soviet Gnevny class were Anshan, Fushun, Changchun and Taiyuan. So three are taken, which leaves you with Fushun.

Fushun was taken as well. Type 056. 591 is its number now.

 

[Tam]

The wind blows harder in Jiangnan.

I am also wondering if the funnel would be for ships specific to serve in the South China Seas.

 

[Richard Santos]

Ships from both builders all obviously have funnels. What dalian ships have in addition is called a funnel cap.

Funnel caps are typically used to help direct smoke away from surrounding structure. But on a modern stealthy warship it may just as well be designed to shield the top uptake from radars or infrared. It would be interesting to see if one could get a view looking down into the funnel caps of a Dalian ship.