Type 055 DDG News & Discussions

[LKJ86]

8th

 

[Deino]

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Is this the Z-20 mock-up, we've seen yesterday?

 

[Han Patriot]

8th
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8 055s? Holy shit!

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

8 055s? Holy shit!

Gonna be about 40 or so eventually. China will be the dominant power come 2050.

 

[Deino]

Gonna be about 40 or so eventually. China will be the dominant power come 2050.

NO and maybe at best ... but reality is not your strength, isn't it?

 

[ozranger]

NO and maybe at best ... but reality is not your strength, isn't it?

As there confirms to be 8 already, I think further 8 more in the 2nd batch for the next decade is quite realistic.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

As there confirms to be 8 already, I think further 8 more in the 2nd batch for the next decade is quite realistic.

I think 16 Type 055 then they'll be switching to the much bigger and more advanced Type 058 which is like 20,000 tons.

 

[Deino]

As there confirms to be 8 already, I think further 8 more in the 2nd batch for the next decade is quite realistic.

Agree, but that would make 24 altogether with is still far from his claimed 40 .. and IMO as ridiculous as his claim that there are more than 60 J-20s already operational.

 

[english_man]

I think 16 Type 055 then they'll be switching to the much bigger and more advanced Type 058 which is like 20,000 tons.

Type 058?..........where did you here, or read this from? Do you really think the Chinese would build such a large surface combatant, in this day and age?. I mean it would be getting close to the Russians Kirov class battle cruisers!

 

[Dante80]

Type 058?..........where did you here, or read this from? Do you really think the Chinese would build such a large surface combatant, in this day and age?. I mean it would be getting close to the Russians Kirov class battle cruisers!

We have seen in the past some hints about the Chinese working on a concept of an Arsenal Class semi-submersible combatant, I'm not sure what happened to that. It would not be unrealistic though to think that PLAN could field a combatant larger than Type 055 in the future. Applications do exist for it.

 

[cirr]

#7 and #8 are the first two ships of the second batch of 055.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

#7 and #8 are the first two ships of the second batch of 055.

#7 and #8 will the be first Type 055 ships to have the railgun to replace the original 130 mm main gun.

 

[Dante80]

#7 and #8 will the be first Type 055 ships to have the railgun to replace the original 130 mm main gun.

This is a pretty big announcement, especially since we have started seeing modules for those hulls.
Where did you get that information?

 

[ILC]

#7 and #8 will the be first Type 055 ships to have the railgun to replace the original 130 mm main gun.

No, they won't.

 

[ChineseTiger1986]

This is a pretty big announcement, especially since we have started seeing modules for those hulls.
Where did you get that information?

From a staff member of the JN shipyard.

Since he was the first person who claimed that the first batch of the Type 055 ends at #6, then the second batch will consist another 6 ships.

Now with all the evidence on the table, it seems that his assertion was right.

When the railgun is on a test bed, then it means it is very close for the deployment, just like the Type 0346A radar before the deployment on the Type 052D was also spotted with a test bed. You can check the old threads from 2012.

No, they won't.

Time will tell.