The earlier ones all have TAS, so no ship does not have TAS. A third, which are the earlier ones, do not have VDS. Don't know if there has been any retrofits on the earlier ones yet. The Maanshan 054 refit might have installed one.
PLAN ASW Capability
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The earlier ones all have TAS, so no ship does not have TAS. A third, which are the earlier ones, do not have VDS. Don't know if there has been any retrofits on the earlier ones yet. The Maanshan 054 refit might have installed one.
The Type 054A overlaps both fleets however, as these are seen leading and drilling with 056s. The 056s also conduct patrols deep in the South China Seas keeping watch of foreign navy vessels and escorting surveillance and oceanographic ships.
I should add that Type 052C/D appears to have flag command, as they do so in Gulf of Aden missions for example. Captains of 055 do rank higher than those of 052C/D.
Definitely will, after the MLU. I guess there will still be a couple of years from now.
Lethe
Captain
An 052-ASW is plausible, though a clean-sheet design may ultimately be preferred. Compared to 052D, I would delete the aft VLS and cut back the AAW fit to frigate or "frigate plus" levels, i.e. no Type 346 or HQ-9. More of my thoughts on a "large ASW frigate" and how it would fit into the inventory in cost/capability/doctrine terms can be found in the discussion beginning here.
I don't like quoting a big wall of text, but this is quite insightful!
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
Well during the WW II they have dedicated ASW corvette to guard convoy thru atlantic crossing. They are small so they can dart between the ship in formation 1000 ton about the same tonnage as Type56. So I wouldn't foreclose type 56 as ASW screen for SAG
They were successful design
In early 1939, with the risk of war with increasing, it was clear to the Royal Navy that it needed more escort ships to counter the threat from . One particular concern was the need to protect shipping off the east coast of Britain. What was needed was something larger and faster than , but still cheap enough to be built in large numbers, preferably at small merchant shipyards, as larger yards were already busy.
To meet this requirement, the of , a specialist in the design and build of fishing vessels, offered a development of its 700-ton, 16 knots (18 mph; 30 km/h) (whale catcher) . They were intended as small convoy escort ships that could be produced quickly and cheaply in large numbers. Despite naval planners' intentions that they be deployed for coastal convoys, their long range meant that they became the mainstay of convoy protection during the first half of the war.
They were successful design
In early 1939, with the risk of war with increasing, it was clear to the Royal Navy that it needed more escort ships to counter the threat from . One particular concern was the need to protect shipping off the east coast of Britain. What was needed was something larger and faster than , but still cheap enough to be built in large numbers, preferably at small merchant shipyards, as larger yards were already busy.
To meet this requirement, the of , a specialist in the design and build of fishing vessels, offered a development of its 700-ton, 16 knots (18 mph; 30 km/h) (whale catcher) . They were intended as small convoy escort ships that could be produced quickly and cheaply in large numbers. Despite naval planners' intentions that they be deployed for coastal convoys, their long range meant that they became the mainstay of convoy protection during the first half of the war.
Operations
Flower-class corvettes were used extensively by both the RN and RCN in the war-long . They also saw limited service elsewhere with the RN, as well as the USN and several Allied navies such as the Royal Netherlands Navy, the Royal Norwegian Navy, the Royal Hellenic Navy, the Free French Naval Forces, the Royal Indian Navy, and the Royal New Zealand Navy. The used some of these vessels during World War II, and have continued to use Flower names for to this day.
Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
There is thread about PLAN ASW called littoral ASW. I post a lot of article
PLAN ASW Capability
PLAN is often said to have poor ASW capability. One example often brought up is the small size of the bow sonar on even modern PLAN ship such as 054A. Is it possible that PLAN is using smaller MF sonar rather than big lower frequency sonar such as SQS-35 because its present ASW mission is mainly...
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They were successful because U-boots were virtually immobile while submerged, and has only one pitiful 88mm plus 1 or 2 20mm auto cannons and negligible reserve bouyant while surfaced. So the Uboat can barely hide, can’t run away, and can’t fight even a 700 ton pursuer derived from a whale catcher design.
those relative attributes do not apply to nuclear submarines that type 056 will most likely face.