Yup a good ship compared well to Meko 140, SAAR,Pohang class.One of the best equipped ship of its class Anyway the 41st launch of type 56. From Henri K
It is also smart now that civilian ship building is in doldrum they give work to this shipyard and keep the technical personel employed. Not to mention widen up the industrial shipbuilding inland important in case of emergency
October 28, 2016, the Huangpu shipyard located in southern China has floated the 40th corvette
Type 056 for the Chinese navy.
Just over a month later, it was the turn of the shipyard Liaonan, in the north, which put in the water the 41st class of ship.
According to
(张掖) - an ancient city in Gansu province that was part of the Silk Road - a delegation from the town hall Zhangze visited the naval base Lushunkou Northern fleet, from 6 to 7 December, to participate in the launchable ceremony of the ship, which will carry the name of the city.
The visit of the delegation from the city of Zhangze (Source: 张掖 日 报社)
And according to the Journal of the Chinese navy, the future crew of the corvette
Zhangzecompleted in early November, theoretical training campaign that lasted 53 days. The sailors and officers were given courses in a dozen field as combat systems, navigation, radar and electro ... etc.
This schedule is consistent with what has been observed on other buildings of Type 056, where crews begin preparing for the reception of their ship about 1 year before admission to active duty. Therefore, already we can already anticipate the entry into service
Zhangzetowards the second half of November in 2017.
It is not known yet, however, if this corvette is a standard Type 056 version or the anti-submarine warfare variant
Type 056A . But it should be noted that this is the third corvette of this class manufactured in the shipyard Liaonan in 2016.
And we can also see that the four Chinese shipyards involved in the construction of the program have already launched 10 new corvettes Type 056 this year, in addition to export versions and a dedicated Coastguard variant Chinese (the
Type 718B ).
Here is the number of all the variants of this corvette of 1300 tons built in four Chinese shipyards program participants -
Type 056 Type 056A C13B To be determined
Hudong Shipyard
(Shanghai) 5 7
Huangpu Shipyard
(Guangzhou) 5 7
Wuchang Shipyard
(Wuhan) 6 2 2
Shipyard Liaonan
(Dalian) 7 1 1
Statistically, the rate of a corvette launching every month and a half is maintained, specifically one every 42 days now. The new order of every 10 cases passed by the Chinese navy has swelled the total number of Type 056-70.
If the current rate of production is maintained, it will guarantee even a little more than 3 years of work for four shipyards concerned.
This means that the Type 056 program will be completed before the end of the 13th Five Year Plan, and that consultancies should already working on other programs today.
Note also that the shipyards Huangpu (Guangzhou) and Hudong (Shanghai) remain the most active with a corvette release of their dry dock every three months, while seven months are needed for the two other shipyards Wuchang and Liaonan.
Type 056 | Update Statistics October 29, 2016
