I certainly am not advocating more Sovs one way or the other. But if the Russians are desperate for some cash & willing to offer a good deal, in terms of price & tech. Maybe it's not a bad idea to buy a few more, which btw I agree is more rumour than fact now.
Provided of course such purchases don't distract resources from indigenous R&D.
At the present time, the Russians don't have any more tech that they can offer. Everything that China likes has already been copied and put on the current ships. In terms of price, there is no way they can build ships at the kind of value and workmanship offered by the much more competitive Chinese shipyards.
no, 052B is a step in the right direction, it's at least using CODAG propulsion, has stealthy hull, good workmanship from JN.Well I think it's rumor too, but I also think it's possible. I guess tphuang means 052B?
051C is a complete mess, it still uses steam turbine, the hull is not stealthy. The much talked about rif doesn't even have the upgraded needed to intercept missiles. so, all the air defense against missiles is left to the two Type 730s. And because of the space taken up by rif, they got no space for a hangar. And then with that massive FCR, it still can only handle threats from 1 direction, on top of that, needs those additional air search radar, to the end that they only have enough space for 8 YJ-83s. So, you got the much talked about air defense, but the ASuW is downgraded to frigate level and the ASW is practically zero.cause 051C is mainly for long range air defence I think. China needs to expand her fleet badly, that's the reality.
That's totally overrated. The Sunburns are big, don't fly as low as YJ-83s and YJ-62s. The 3M80MBE used higher flight path to achieve the greater range -> even easier to detect. So what does that mean? With bandstand clones going on 054A, even 054A has greater ASuW than the Sovs. And it's humongous RCS just makes it a even larger target for the anti-ship missiles.So I think something like Sov that has great SSM ability while able to protect itself against air attack is a good choice.