.China navy so great 054B coming soon.
Military experts in China believe work is about to begin on a bigger, faster version of its Type 054A frigat.
.What Will the Chinese Navy’s Next Frigate Look Like?
The U.S. Navy has chosen its next frigate; what will China’s look like?.
The specific propulsion and power system of the 054B is also a matter of some uncertainty. The rumored propulsion configuration of the 054B has been said to be an integrated electric propulsion system, or some kind of combined electric system. However the number and type of different prime movers is not known either, such as the number and types of gas turbines versus diesels..
Of course, such predictions are subject to change, but at this stage a 2025 date for the 054B to enter service appears reasonable.
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China to build Type 054B frigates.:Some exciting (for nerds!) new imagery from Hudong shipyard in Shanghai: what is AFAIK the first published image of a complete hull of a long-rumored new class of PLA Navy frigate..
The 054B frigate, which was designed in 2016, has been delayed for some reason. In summary, if the Navy ’s medium-term plan is to build six aircraft carrier formations, it will build a large surface ship with full combustion, full drive, and full armament. Therefore, no new frigates would be built in the medium term. There were already dozens of frigates in the navy, sufficient to defend patrol, alert, fisheries, anti-submarine and other tasks along the coast and in the middle and offshore China.
The so-called Type 054B is an improved version of China’s Type 054A frigate, Hudong is the Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding Company in Shanghai and Huangpu is the CSSC Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company in Guangzhou. Type 054A is the third generation of the Chinese Navy’s missile frigates and its first frigate with regional air defense capabilities..
China’s Type 054B Next-Gen Frigate Under Construction?.A new warship hull widely assumed to be the Type 054B next generation frigate for the Chinese Navy (PLAN) has commenced final assembly at Hudong Shipyard in Shanghai.
.Overview of the PLA Chinese Navys Type 054B frigate.
a Chinese naval formation carried out a test loading task of multiple types of advanced weapons and equipment, among which, a comprehensive test ship named 891 "Bison" attracted attention from all sides.
The test ship hull is equipped with much advanced electronic equipment and new weaponry. The Type 054B missile frigate, which is expected to be fitted with the new rotating phased-array radar, is already under construction and has started to carry out tests on various technical items.
In fact, as early as mid-May of this year, the Guangzhou Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard, a subsidiary of CSIC, carried out preparatory work on basic materials for the construction of the new generation of Type 054B guided missile frigates.
Regarding the construction of this type of ship, the Chinese Navy attaches extra importance to the work. Compared to the previous Type 054A and earlier models of guided missile frigates, the Type 054B guided missile frigate will have a qualitative breakthrough in the technical field and fundamentally make up for the shortcomings of the previous models.
The most remarkable technical breakthrough of this type of ship is its power plant propulsion system. In addition, the full load displacement, fire control, and defense systems, and the adoption of a new double-sided array phased array radar is also worth mentioning.
Among them, the replacement of the power plant and propulsion system is particularly significant. In addition to being significant in enhancing the ships maneuverability, range, and flexibility, it also solves, from the root, the bottleneck problem of enhancing the stealthiness of naval ships.
With its hybrid power, it can obtain a higher speed in order to flexibly follow the actions of Chinese carrier formations, and at the same time, when it is necessary to maintain stealth, it can adopt integrated electric propulsion to reduce the source of acoustic and thermal exposure as much as possible.
As the speed of Chinas naval modernization continues to accelerate, the huge breakthrough in power system technology for the Type 054B guided missile frigate has also pointed out the path for the direction of power development for Chinese naval surface ships.
The more advanced power system of the Type 054B guided missile frigate makes it stand out among the Navys family of large surface ships. Its full load displacement has been increased from the previous Type 054As 4,000 tons to 5,000 tons, and although it is larger, it also has a faster speed.
In addition, the Type 054B missile frigate compared to the Type 054A is another major change in the ships radar, the use of a new double-sided rotating phased array radar.
Whether the type of ships air defense, anti-ship capabilities, Type 054B compared to Type 054A will have a significant improvement. The dual-band system implemented in the radar system will be a perfect match with the dual-band system of the Type 055 series of guided missile destroyers.
Due to the adoption of this new double-sided rotating phased array radar, the 054B guided missile frigate will be more intensive and streamlined compared to the Type 052D and Type 055 series guided missile destroyers in terms of onboard radar equipment arrangement, and the number of antennas required for the entire radar array will be less than half.
At the same time, much of the equipment space saved will be used for fire control systems that integrate radar functions, which will greatly enhance the 054Bs rapid response capability from information perception to fire control protection.
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