Type 055 DDG News & Discussions

[52051]

How many missiles it can take and expend up to?

They have 112 silos, but 055's missile silos are quite flexible in design, one silo can accomodate up to 4 missiles of various types.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

How many missiles it can take and expend up to?

I think the consensus is 112 units for the Type 055A and 128 units for the Type 055B.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

The official render of the Type 055A.

 

[monitor]

A credible source suggests the number of first batch 055 is more than 8.

 

[帅的一匹]

A credible source suggests the number of first batch 055 is more than 8.

Maybe BD navy shall buy two 052D in the next 10 years? Around 1 billions USD per. Or 054A?

 

[monitor]

Maybe BD navy shall buy two 052D in the next 10 years? Around 1 billions USD per. Or 054A?

Initially we must buy something like Type 54A latter Type 52D . we already bought a variant of Type 56 corvette in our Navy modernization drive .

 

[truthseeker2010]

Maybe BD navy shall buy two 052D in the next 10 years? Around 1 billions USD per. Or 054A?

what would be the cost of 055?

 

[帅的一匹]

what would be the cost of 055?

Sorry I need to correct the price tag: the price PLAN get 052d Destroyer is 500 millions USD, and 800 millions USD for type 055 Cruiser.

 

[truthseeker2010]

Sorry I need to correct the price tag: the price PLAN get 052d Destroyer is 500 millions USD, and 800 millions USD for type 055 Cruiser.

$800m for 10,000 ton ship, IMO it would be at least $1 billion

 

[pzfz]

Despite having fewer VLS than the KDXIII, I believe the Type 055 will be the most heavily armed ship in the water thanks to quad-packing.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Despite having fewer VLS than the KDXIII, I believe the Type 055 will be the most heavily armed ship in the water thanks to quad-packing.

The KDXIII only uses the MK 41 and the watered down K VLS, and South Korea cannot afford to acquire more than threes of these white elephants.

 

[Penguin]

KD-III / Sejong the Great-class destroyer

• 1 × 5 inch (127 mm/L62) Mk-45 Mod 4 naval gun
• 1 × 30 mm Goalkeeper CIWS
  1 × RAM Block 1 CIWS (21 ready missiles)
  
• 80-cell Mk 41 VLS
  • SM-2 Block IIIA/IIIB/IV
• 48-cell K-VLS
  • 32 × Hyunmoo III land attack cruise missiles
  • 16 × K-ASROC Red Shark in (VLS)
• 4 × 4 SSM-700K Hae Sung anti-ship missiles
• 2 × 3 K745 LW Blue Shark ASW torpedo launchers
• 2 Super Lynx or SH-60 Seahawk helicopters

So, that's 128 VLS cells plus 16 deck mounted SSM (compared to 112 cells and no deck mounted SSM on 055). There is absolutely no reason why the Mk41 VLS couldn't or wouldn't be used for quad-packed ESSM. Also, with dual milimeter-wave and IIR seekers, and the ability to be quad-packed in either the domestic K-VLS or other conventional vertical launch system such as the MK.41 VLS, the South Korean Sea Bow SAM is close analogue of the Block II variant of Raytheon ESSM and will subsitute for the ESSM's role in lo-mid range Air Defense in the ROK Navy.

http://imgur.com/AMCvejc
http://imgur.com/XybJoBZ
http://imgur.com/qc8uVF5
http://themess.net/forum/military-d...ls-configuration-for-sea-bow-saam-interceptor

In August 2016, press reports revealed that South Korea was considering adding the SM-3 interceptor to its Sejong the Great-class ships to enable them to perform ballistic missile defense. The addition of SM-3s to the ships may require software and computer hardware upgrades. The following month, Aegis manufacturer Lockheed Martin confirmed the next three Sejong the Great vessels will be capable of performing "integrated air and missile defense" (IAMD) to supplement U.S. Army ground-based missile interceptors on the peninsula, likely being outfitted with the SM-3. While the first three destroyers are fitted with Aegis Baseline 7 based on older proprietary computers that can't carry out IAMD operations, the following three will be fitted with the Baseline 9 version of the Aegis Combat System that combines modern computing architecture to allow the AN/SPY-1D(v) radar to perform air warfare and BMD missions at the same time.

On 10 December 2013 the ROKN confirmed ordering three more vessels on the same class [for a total of 6 by 2027]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejong_the_Great-class_destroyer
http://www.navyrecognition.com/inde...kdx-iii-aegis-destroyers-to-six-by-2027-.html

S. Korea to deploy new surface-to-air missiles for Aegis destroyers
SEOUL, June 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will arm its Aegis destroyers with the surface-to-air Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) starting 2016 as part of efforts to bolster its missile defense against North Korean threats, a senior government official said Wednesday.
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/06/12/37/0301000000AEN20130612004900315F.HTML

SM-6 Cleared for International Sale; Australia, Japan, Korea Could Be Early Customers (January 10, 2017)
Raytheon’s Standard Missile 6 has been cleared by the Pentagon for international sales and a trio of potential Pacific nations are likely the first customers.
SM-6 — currently in limited initial production – is a key weapon in the both the Navy’s emerging distributed lethality concept and the service’s Naval Integrated Fire Control Counter-Air (NIFC-CA) for its ability to strike air, surface and limited ballistic missile targets.
Of the five international Aegis combat system operators, three are in the process to have the upgraded combat system to field the SM-6 – Australia, Japan and South Korea
Korea’s three planned new Sejong the Great-class guided missile destroyers are also being built with Baseline 9 and will also field the SM-3 ballistic missile defense interceptor.
While the three countries all could field the SM-6 its unclear if each country will be allowed to use all three modes of the missile – anti-air warfare, anti-surface and a limited ballistic missile defense capability.
While the missiles will all have the inherent capability for all three missions, the U.S. government will determine which of those features will be activated for international sales
https://news.usni.org/2017/01/10/sm...al-sale-australia-japan-korea-early-customers
http://navaltoday.com/2017/01/11/ra...h-australia-korea-and-japan-as-likely-buyers/

As per the fourth unit, KD-II Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer have 64 cells worth of VLS besides deck mounted SSMs.

• Mk 41 32 cells
  
• K-VLS 32 cells

• 1x 21 RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM)
• 8 Harpoon or SSM-700K Haeseong Anti-ship missile
• 1x 30 mm Goalkeeper close-in weapon system,
  
• 1x Mk 45 Mod 4 127 mm gun,
  
• 2x triple 324 mm anti-submarine torpedo tubes.
• Super Lynx or SH-60

In principle, these can carry the same weapons in the VLSs as KDIII.

 

[pzfz]

Isn't the Chinese VLS capable of quad-packing more than just an ESSM-sized missile? meaning bigger missiles?

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

Isn't the Chinese VLS capable of quad-packing more than just an ESSM-sized missile? meaning bigger missiles?

Yep, it is bigger than the MK 57. Therefore, it is more capable to quad-pack longer range missiles.

 

[帅的一匹]

The KDXIII only uses the MK 41 and the watered down K VLS, and South Korea cannot afford to acquire more than threes of these white elephants.

Who is South Korea?

Yep, it is bigger than the MK 57. Therefore, it is more capable to quad-pack longer range missiles.

Would it be possible we launch ballistic missile on Type 055?