Ok but what’s about other suppliers of ships? Turkey, Russia? If BD wants, Vietnam can supply brandnew missile warships at reasonable cost! Beware, the chinese are good at business. They sell every scrap as if it’s gold.
Our naval shipbuilding program aims to build the hull in our own shipyard with a design provided by China or others, and we want countries like China or others to supply the mechanical components related to the engine(s), weapons system and do other difficult tasks.
I just mean the ones builded in China.
Are you sure they were bought recently?More recently - Thailand bought the improved and heavily modified 053-H3 designs (2XNaresuan class) with displacement of 3000 tons, this is definitely higher than our lead ship Bangabandhu class. These are (I'd posit) are very similar to the F22P designs acquired and fabricated in Pakistan. One thing to note is that engines, weapons and sensors (and placement choices in terms of superstructure) are of Western origin and vastly different in the case of these two countries.
HTMS Naresuan (2 bought from China then heavily modified) - China class 053H2G, see all the Western sensors and integrated weapons fitted as modifications to this Chinese vessel
MSI Defense Systems 30mm gun
The two secondary Chinese-built Type 76 twin 37mm dual-purpose gun systems (photo on top) that originally equipped the Naresuan class, were removed and replaced by the MSI Defense Systems 30mm DS30M Mark 2 (Seahawk A2) gun systems consisting of a 30mm Mark 44 Bushmaster II cannon on a fully automated mount with an off-mount electro-optical director (EOD) and with below deck control console. The gun has a rate of fire of approximately 650 rounds per minute in a maximum range of less than 3km in anti-aircraft role. Except the main naval gun, the ships are equipped with 2-4 MH2B heavy machine guns. The M2 has a maximum (effective) range of around 1,830m and a cyclical rate of fire of approximately 600 rounds per minute.
Mk.45 gun and VLS (32 Raytheon RIM 162 ESSM SAM)
Do you think that the buyers are too stupid, or Chinese are too smart?
In fact, the costs of European ones you mentioned are almost the same as that of Type 052D DDG in China already...
You should know the missions of Type 054/A FFG in PLAN.
Are you seriously?
India will tell another story.
Would that AESA will be fitted in Pakistani Type 054s?
Type 346 AESA radars: Type 052C DDGWell if you know differently - then let us know.
That is why you should know the missions of Type 054A FFG in PLAN.You just made my point.
I was trying to say that only DDG's in PLAN service (starting with the Type 052C destroyer (NATO/OSD Luyang II-class destroyer) introduced Type 346 Stationary type (non-moving) AESA radars.
This type of AESA radar is not available for PLAN FFGs (of any type) yet. While every RECENT European FFG type (FREMM, Sachsen class, Formidable class of S'pore, Meko 200 has them). Bangladesh is considering ToT for some of these.
This is the 3,200 tonne Republic of Singapore Navy Formidable class frigate RSS Stalwart in the foreground. Note the stealth mast and AESA radar among other sensors and the general clean layout instead of the messy crow's nest for outdated frigates.
I will post the pros and cons of different naval radars and their characteristics later.
The Type 052C introduced both fixed active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar and vertically launched surface-to-air missiles into PLAN service. First picture shows 052C DDG Changchun (pennant 150) and the larger 052D DDG Guiyang (pennant 119).
