PLAN East Sea Fleet & Bases/Islands

Jeff Head · Jan 21, 2015

The East China Sea fleet of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) conducted a live fire exercise of the new generation of Chinese-made guided missile Type 056 frigate, Quanzhou, 588, on Jan 20, 2015

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They are rapidly folding these new vesels into their training exercises.

Dizasta1 · Jan 23, 2015

^^ Wasn't Type 056 a Corvette and not a frigate?

joshuatree · Jan 23, 2015

Dizasta1 said:
^^ Wasn't Type 056 a Corvette and not a frigate?

PLAN has always classified it as a light frigate.

asif iqbal · Mar 2, 2015

Check out he ESF

Also the Sovs are under some sort of upgrade possible radar

joshuatree · Mar 2, 2015

asif iqbal said:
Check out he ESF

Also the Sovs are under some sort of upgrade possible radar

Maybe link upgrades to enable the Sovs to better integrate data/com with the other ships in the fleet?

antiterror13 · Mar 3, 2015

joshuatree said:
Maybe link upgrades to enable the Sovs to better integrate data/com with the other ships in the fleet?

Would the Russians allow it?

rhino123 · Mar 3, 2015

antiterror13 said:
Would the Russians allow it?

Why wouldn't the Russian allowed it? The ships belongs to the Chinese, and the Chinese had full rights to everything in the ships, which include changing of the entire engines, radar, etc. The Russian might have problem if the Chinese wanted to sell these ships to a third party member though, because of the sensitivity in some technology within the ship.

Jeff Head · Mar 3, 2015

antiterror13 said:
Would the Russians allow it?

I do not think they would either want to disallow it, or be in a position to do so.

The Chinese would be talking about merely making them more effective within the Chinese fleet.

Now, if the Chinese were going to reverse engineer Russian weapons, sensors, or critical sub-systems and then sell them to other nations...the Russians might well take severe issue with that and try and block it.

But I see them having no issue whatsoever with the Chinese developing a comm link to allow the Sovs to more easily and effectively integrate into the Chinese order of battle.

antiterror13 · Mar 4, 2015

Thanks Jeff. The 4 Sovs would be a great assets for PLAN if they can be fully integrated into the Chinese system or even fire Chinese missiles or CIWS. If this is the case, I can see these 4 Sovs would serve PLAN until at least 2025 ... and they would be formidable and deadly

Jeff Head · Mar 4, 2015

antiterror13 said:
Thanks Jeff. The 4 Sovs would be a great assets for PLAN if they can be fully integrated into the Chinese system or even fire Chinese missiles or CIWS. If this is the case, I can see these 4 Sovs would serve PLAN until at least 2025 ... and they would be formidable and deadly

I expect that they will serve into the 2030s. They have at least a 30 years service life...and in sections of two, even if they only had Russian sensors and weapons, they are deadly foes.

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