Type 052DL (stretched variant of Type 052D destroyer)

[Grey Havoc]

Video: Inside China’s Newest Type 052DL Destroyer, Suzhou 132 - Naval Post- Naval News and Information

China Central Television (CCTV7) published a video of China’s newest Type 052DL class destroyer, Suzhou 132. It shows the interior, main mast, engine room, flight deck ops, amongst others.

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From back in March, via the Wikipedia entry on the Type 052D family:

More stretched Type 052D destroyers join the PLA Navy

Video footage released by Chinese state-owned media on 2 March indicates that another Type 052D (Luyang III)-class destroyer has entered service with China’s People’s...

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Chinese Navy commissions upgraded variation of the Type 052D destroyer

According to information published by Global Times on March 3, 2021, a newly commissioned, upgraded variation of the Type 052D destroyer (123) recently mad

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[shin_getter]

How fast is PLAN iterating ship designs?

What is up with America in comparison? It is not like the US sends less money.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Things like LCS and trying to design destroyers that could replace cruisers (and failing miserably, not surprisingly) have taken their toll, not to mention incompetence and corruption in general.

 

[stealthflanker]

I like their VLS. It's what UKSK supposed to be but for some reason unable to deliver.

 

[CV12Hornet]

How fast is PLAN iterating ship designs?

What is up with America in comparison? It is not like the US sends less money.

From the articles, this isn't a new ship design. It's essentially to the 052D what the Flight IIA was to the Burkes. And in general a hull stretch is pretty easy to iterate.

China has also been helped, with their destroyer designs, by reusing the same hull with different sensor, armament, and propulsion fits since the Type 051B. Their only clean-sheet new designs have been the Type 055 destroyer and Type 054 frigate.

So "What is up with America" is that we've been futzing around mostly with clean-sheet designs, which naturally take longer to develop than the more iterative process the PLAN has been conducting. Not to mention that Chinese development times are a hell of a lot less transparent than American to us Anglosphere commentators.

 

[Moose]

How fast is PLAN iterating ship designs?

What is up with America in comparison? It is not like the US sends less money.

Just the DDG-51 class alone features 4 "Flights," if you want to get even more granular you can see double-digit major variants of the class without even breaking a sweat.

 

[Bhurki]

I like their VLS. It's what UKSK supposed to be but for some reason unable to deliver.

Explain ?!

 

[stealthflanker]

I like their VLS. It's what UKSK supposed to be but for some reason unable to deliver.

Explain ?!

The UKSK Were supposed to be a really Universal VLS for both cruise missiles and SAM's. But as we see the current UKSK doesnt seem to live up that philosophy (e.g the one used for Kalibr is different with one used for Redut).