Inadequate fighter planes aboard China’s 1980s-vintage Liaoning aircraft carrier, as well as on the country’s first domestically made carrier, can seriously limit the might of the fledging Chinese carrier strike groups.
That is why the People’s Liberation Army has gone to great lengths to develop and construct ace guided-missile destroyers to remedy the problem and turn PLA carriers into fortresses at sea.
While the homemade Type 002 carrier is set to stretch its legs in a maiden sea trial rumored for February or March, the second ship of the Type 055 destroyer family earmarked to escort the carrier is also taking shape in the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, and its drydock will soon be flooded for the first time, Japan’s Sankei Shimbun reports.
Modular assembly for the third and fourth Type 055s has been revved up and construction of the second batch of four extra modified sea bases has been scheduled for the Shanghai facility as well as the Dalian Shipyard.
Each carrier strike group will have two such multi-role monster destroyers, measuring 183 meters in length and 22 meters in width with a displacement of 13,500 tons at full load, which was last matched in Asia by warships launched by the Imperial Japanese Navy before 1945.
Armored with a total of 112 firepower units and vertical launch systems, the versatile destroyer has air-defense, anti-missile, anti-ship and anti-submarine capabilities, as well as sea-land warfare, thanks to the surface-to-air HQ-9B and HQ-10 missiles, YJ-18A anti-ship and land-attack missiles, and the newly developed Yu-8 anti-submarine missiles that will form the backbone of the Type 055’s well-rounded assault capabilities.
It can also work in concert with Type 052C/D destroyers, the 093B nuclear submarine and 054B frigate as a command ship, Global Times reported, quoting a PLA admiral.
Type 055 destroyers could potentially rival the US Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the first built around the Aegis Combat System, and the only US destroyers in service until the Zumwalt-class became active in 2016.
The destroyer will be easy meat for US F22 and F35 not to mention the precision of their cruise missiles.
America is dying, no doubt about that.
..the will loan to China to buy Logistics if they will goto war with China hahaha. All in China.
america’s ailing economy will eventually destroy itself sooner than expected.
For the last 20 years +, CHN been researching, improving in every facets of making the nation stronger, making the population wealthier, and building more and more infrastructure. For the same 20 yrs +, American was busy in political infighting , slow in updating infrastructures, didnt feed its homeless, fueling racial injustice, and making the richer even richer and the poor ones poorer. Tell me, doesnt it looks like USA is slipping downward??
Never in my dream did I imagine able to see the downfall of Great Britain and USA all in my lifetime, but looked like I will.
you are correct but the aftermath China and America all Country will back to stone age who loose the mother earth.
Teodoro Dichoso , dont always assume there will be nuclear exchange, there were secret pissing contests that various government couldnt explain their missing servicemen, these will happen, but cooler heads will make sure fights will be limited to small ones, not big uncontrollable war.
A Times, Asahi, Nikkei Asian Review etc all are Pro China media and often help China boast their coycat weaponry . this is basically another copycat of (at least the FUNCTION / mission purpose if not the FORM) of American Ticonderoga class Cruiser (basically just a bigger Destroyer that have larger Missile capacity and bigger area to host the Battle /Carrier group air command centre, if i remember correctly , compared to Arleigh Burke class destroyers ALSO with Aegis system)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticonderoga-class_cruiser
China is widely boasting about her capabilities that it will at least be on par with Aegis system Arleigh burke class destroyers in role and function ( if not matching Ticonderoga class),
BUT all China’s basis of reasoning is very simplistic and superficially conjectured and based on : WEIGHT /Tonnage ie. Size of the warship ; the QUANTITY of VLS tubes and RANGE of China missiles planned to be use on for the VLS (especially Anti Ship/ Anti Air) ,
and also that this class (being a copycat of the Ticonderoga’s role / mission purpose at the very least) can fire Anti Ship, Anti Surface and Anti-sub(marine) missiles in their VLS tubes. So china claim and boast they are ON PAR or at least have equal Arleigh Burke ships.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_launching_system
However , as we all know , total Weight, Quantity / Range of VLS tubes and Missile functions (albeit all 3 anti included : Anti Air/ship and sub) can hardly be any ACCURATE reflection of TRUE COMBAT CAPABILITIES in real fight .
The combat or computer systems (use for detection of threats, directing /firing or command of missiles etc ) and mechanical systems on ships are totally NOT mentioned or discussed or factored in (e.g. computating speed / capabilities and detection range ) .
and so does the detailed capabilities of their respective VLS Missiles (e.g. how good are them in accuracy at long range, response speed and anti jamming performance ) , nothing is truly available or can be trusted beyond as China’s propaganda boast information / claims .
I was also quite surprise myself when I dug deeper in some previous unrelated reading and realize that some range as quoted by China’s military or those deliberately leaked intelligience , their plane/missile’s range quoted is sometimes ACTUALLY just “SLANT range” and NOT true (horizontal plane ) range.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slant_range
Hence some western /international analysts , being unable to get Full or reliable data on true capabilities of China’s computer/combat systems, or their missiles, just reQUOTE an TRUST whatever China said or boasted about (no matter how superficial these are or how unreliable China’s boasts are) .
Plus also imagine and conjecture the worst case scenario in any future potential conflict with this ship ,They often ended up concluding this ship as being very capable or the world needs to be Concerned but also indirectly helping China boast about this ship.
But I truly think this Ship is merely at best have combat capacity of a Arleigh burke ship in the 1990s
one thing i missed to mention in detail above (my other comments segment) is the detection and reaction capabilities of a ship’s weapons system computer and how networked these are which then can rely on other friendly platform e.g. for american’s using E-2C/D , Global hawk or Satellite to aid in the detection and discovery of Enemy ship or incoming missiles ,
which will determine / aid in how fast their on board systems and the overall capabilities in can detecting , computing , respond and fire back , e.g. their Air Defense missiles . Yes, having more missiles on board (e.g. 120 missile VLS tubes or more ) are good as it enhance protection during times of enemy SATURATION missiles attack .
BUT that is ONLY 1 part of the protection story, if your reaction speed and detection capability is LOW, then no matter how many missiles you have onboard for China’s 055, if incoming threats cannot be detected or/ and cannot be fired back in time, THEN how many missiles you have will become POINTLESS "capability"/boast .
but America’s nuclear missile is 30 times than China and they can use it anytime