Highlights
- Fourth Type 055 stealth guided missile destroyer inducted into Chinese Navy
- Type 055 Guided Missile Destroyer is being described as the world’s most dangerous warship
- In terms of fire power, it is several times more powerful than the Ticoduro-class cruisers of America.
Beijing
chinese navy The fourth Type 055 stealth guided missile destroyer is about to be officially inducted. The Type 055 Guided Missile Destroyer is touted to be the world’s most advanced and powerful warship. People’s Liberation Army Navy is quoted as saying that the fourth Yanan [टाइप 055 डिस्ट्रॉयर] will be officially inducted into the Navy in December. According to analysts monitoring US and Chinese weapons, the Type 055 destroyer is several times more powerful than the US’s Ticodrug-class cruisers in terms of firepower.
Dangerous Hai Type 055 Guided Missile Destroyer
Chinese state media is branding the Type 055 Guided Missile Destroyer as the world’s most dangerous warship. The length of this warship is 180 meters and the maximum width is 20 meters. The full load displacement of this warship is about 13,000 tonnes. Similar to this frigate, the US Navy’s Ticoderoga class cruisers and Flight III Arleigh Burke class destroyers have a displacement of about 9,800 tonnes, while Britain’s Royal Navy’s Type 45 class frigates have a displacement of around 8,500 tonnes.
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Type 055 warship is equipped with these weapons
The warship is fitted with a 130 mm H/PJ-38 main gun. Apart from this, a number of 112 vertical launch missiles are deployed in it. Apart from these two weapons, the H/PJ-11 Close in Weapon System is also deployed on this ship, which can fire at the rate of 10,000 rounds per minute. Apart from this, HQ-10 missiles and torpedoes are also deployed on this warship. It is fitted with decoy launchers to destroy submarines.
More than 8 Type 055 class destroyers to join the Chinese Navy
Nanchang, the first destroyer of China’s Type 055 class, was launched at Jiangnan Changqing Shipyard in Shanghai on June 28, 2017. While the second ship was launched in April 2018 at the same shipyard. More than 10 such destroyers are planned to be commissioned into the Chinese Navy. At present, the work of making warships of this series is going on very fast in China.
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By the year 2025, the Chinese Navy will have 400 battle force ships
According to the US Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), there were 255 battle force ships in the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) fleet in 2015. By the year 2020, the total number of battle force ships with the Chinese Navy increased to 360, which is 60 more than the total ships of the US Navy. ONI has predicted that four years from today, that is, by 2025, China will have a total of 400 battle force ships.