056 class FFL/corvette

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Jeff Head said:
I think they can add a Towed Array without a huge change to the vessel. I think they can replace some of the armament (ie SSMs with ASW missiles) without a huge change and retain the main gun, the HQ-10 missiles and the smaller 30mm guns as well as the helo landing pad in the process.

In fact, I believe the PLAN will have some ASW variants...and, they may go about it in such a way as to not impact the building of the hulls in the least. They could make such a switch over a modular thing that could be conducted in a few days in port if they made the systems (the ASMs vs the ASW missiles, and the sensors associated with them, as well as the Towed Array) modular enough.

Then all the hulls remain essentially the same and they task various vessels within floitillas, or various individual flotillas for the respective duties as required.

I think they could do this with this design...but we shall see.

As it is, as they sit, they are very decent low intensity, multi-role vessels.
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056's intended to replace 037 enmass.

037's originally was a sub chaser. but it's family wsa grown to have differnet variants. one of them had Towed Arrays.

all of 037 were intended to operate near eastern coastal seaboard acting as asw patrol screen and littoral gun boats.

so yes 056 will have a asw towed array. but it would not that useful as the acoustics in eastern seaboard don't make for nice areas for towed array. more likely it will use its sonar bulb on active to make life complicted for IJN... I mean JMSDF... diesel subs.
 
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582 Bengbu, 584 Shangrao and 596 Huizhou

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asif iqbal

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So we have 3 Type 056 commissioned very nice

However, 3 things should be high on the priority list of the PLAN

Towed array sonar
Larger and more powerful hull based sonar for all size for ships, Type 056, Type 054, and Type 052C/D
And a dipping sonar for use with Z9 and a much more powerful dipping sonar for use with Z8

And lastly do away with the comic book Z8 nose cones which look terrible and build a new Z8 based on the newer and more modern AC313 WITHOUT the silly looking nose cones
 
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asif iqbal said:
So we have 3 Type 056 commissioned very nice

However, 3 things should be high on the priority list of the PLAN

Towed array sonar
Larger and more powerful hull based sonar for all size for ships, Type 056, Type 054, and Type 052C/D
And a dipping sonar for use with Z9 and a much more powerful dipping sonar for use with Z8

And lastly do away with the comic book Z8 nose cones which look terrible and build a new Z8 based on the newer and more modern AC313 WITHOUT the silly looking nose cones
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They have TAS on many ships now. And also, Z-9 can be equipped with dipping sonar.
 
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asif iqbal said:
So we have 3 Type 056 commissioned very nice

However, 3 things should be high on the priority list of the PLAN

Towed array sonar
Larger and more powerful hull based sonar for all size for ships, Type 056, Type 054, and Type 052C/D
And a dipping sonar for use with Z9 and a much more powerful dipping sonar for use with Z8

And lastly do away with the comic book Z8 nose cones which look terrible and build a new Z8 based on the newer and more modern AC313 WITHOUT the silly looking nose cones
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Three already commissioned ? When did that happen ? I think only 582 is commissioned and the other two 584, 596 are still on sea trial.
 
asif iqbal

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Franklin said:
Three already commissioned ? When did that happen ? I think only 582 is commissioned and the other two 584, 596 are still on sea trial.
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is it, ok my bad, i seen the pics and thought they were commissioned, maybe they are as you say in sea trials with pennant numbers on them, but i guess they are very close to be commissioned
 
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