Chinese PLAN (1991) – 2 ships: Harbin, Qingdao Chinese transition destroyers: The Luhu clas destroyers constituted in 1993 a significant improvement over the Luda class, a domestic design that approached the capabilities of Western detroyers, but made to achieve this goal extensive use of foreign technologies still accessible to the PRC before the 1989 incident … Read more
Chinese PLAN (1955) – Chengdu, Guiyang, Gulin, Kunming The Green Tea “Riga” The 1956′ Chengdu class can be summup as the Chinese “Riga” class. The latter were the standards mass-built Soviet ASW frigates of the Soviet Navy. Although they were delivered at the same time than the four Gnevny (future Type 07 Anshan class destroyers), … Read more
Chinese PLAN (1969) 17 ships: Guangzhou, Xi’an, Changsha, Yinchuan, Nanning, Nanjing, Jinan, Xining, Nanchang, Chongqing, Zunyi, Guilin. Type 051DT: Kaifeng, Dalian. Type 051Z: Hefei. Type 051G: Zhanjiang, Zhuhai The backbone of the Chinese Navy in the Cold War The “Luda” class (NATO) or Type 051 destroyer (Chinese designation) were the first ocean-going warships by the … Read more
Chinese PLAN (1955) – Anshan, Fu Chun, Chang Chun, Chi Lin The first Chinese Destroyers: The Anshan class was not an indigenous design but the new denomination of four Soviet-built vintage Gnevniy class destroyers, designed in the mid-1930s and built at Nikolayev, Dalzavod and Komsomolsk yards. There were transferred in December 1954 (two), and another … Read more
