Chinese PLAN 2002-2007 CNS Shenyang, Shijiazhuang DDG 115, 116 The Type 051C destroyer (NATO Luzhou class) is a long-range air-defence guided-missile destroyer (DDG) for the Chinese PLAN in the early 2000s as a new step to constitute a true Blue Water Navy. The hull design is essentially a very modified version of the older Type … Read more
Chinese PLAN Project 956E/EM: Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo In short, the Chinese PLAN alongside its own destroyer construction lineage, purchased four ex-Russian (first two ex-Soviet) Sovremenny class Destroyer. They were the very last in class, the first in construction since 1988-89, Vazhny and Vdumchivy, and two started in 2002 as Vnushitelny and Vechny, purchased by … Read more
Type 051b Luhai class (1996) Chinese PLAN (built 1996-1999): DDG167 CNS Shenzhen Designated by NATO Type 051B Luhai class, this PLAN’s 1999 destroyer is considered an important developmental step towards the best balanced guided missile destroyer China could afford as of 2026. Leading to a single ship, CNS Shenzhen, made in Dalian. She was larger … Read more
Chinese PLAN CATOBAR Aircraft Carrier (2022) Commission expected 2025. Chinese Navy Day ! Let’s have a look at the latest, largest and best warship the Chinese Navy ever had: CNS Fujian… Fujian is the first CATOBAR (with EMALS) ever built for the People’s Liberation Army Navy, third aircraft carrier in the new carrier programme, first … Read more
Chinese PLAN Aircraft Carrier. Comp. 2011, comm. 2012, Active CNS Liaoning (16) is the sole Chinese Type 001 aircraft carrier and first aircraft carrier commissioned into the People’s Liberation Army Navy Surface Force, now considered a training ship and officially designed to familiarize the PLAN aircraft carrier operations. Her career is currently of twelve year … Read more
Chinese PLAN (1997-2004) Lianyungang, Jiaxing, Putian, Yichang, Huludao, Sanming, Xiangyang, Huaihua, Luoyang, Mianyang In the 1980s, the PLA Navy ordered Hudong Shipyard in Shanghai, later Hudong-Zhonghua, to design a replacement for the Type 053K AA frigate. The new vessel would be based on the previous Type 053H2 frigate, and natural designation followed as H2G. Development … Read more
Chinese Popular Liberation Army Navy (2017) The Chinese Navy goes one step higher for naval dominance Back in April 2017, a brand new massive aircraft carrier was launched. That’s not everyday it happened. Symbol of the times, it’s Chinese. Still unnamed, it was built at Dalian. The PLAN (Popular Liberation Army Navy) is already, since … Read more
