PEOPLE`S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY (PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)
HANGZHOU destroyers (1999-2000)
Hangzhou 2010
| Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
| 杭州 [Hangzhou] (ex-Yekaterinburg, ex-Vazhnyy) | 136 | Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg, Russia | 4.11.1988 | 23.5.1994 | 25.12.1999 | in service (2019) | |
| 福州 [Fuzhou] (ex-Aleksandr Nevskiy, ex-ex-Vdumchivyy) | 137 | Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg, Russia | 22.2.1989 | 16.4.1999 | 25.12.2000 | in service (2019) |
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Displacement standard, t |
6600 |
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Displacement full, t |
8440 |
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Length, m |
145.0 wl 156.5 oa |
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Breadth, m |
17.2 |
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Draught, m |
6.25 hull 8.25 max |
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No of shafts |
2 |
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Machinery |
2 GTZA-674 geared steam turbines, 4 KVG-3 boilers |
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Power, h. p. |
100000 |
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Max speed, kts |
32.7 |
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Fuel, t |
oil 1740 |
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Endurance, nm(kts) |
4900(18) |
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Armament |
2 x 4 Moskit-E SSM (8 P-100 (3M80E)), 2 x 1 M-22 Shtil' SAM (48 9M38M1E), 2 x 2 - 130/70 AK-130, 4 x 6 - 30/54 AK-630M, 2 x 2 - 533 TT (4), 2 x 6 RBU-1000 Smerch-3 ASWRL, 2 x 7 - 55 MRG-1 Ogonyok grenade launchers, 22 mines, 1 helicopter (Ka-28) |
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Electronic equipment |
MR-760MA Fregat-M2EM, Mineral-E, 2x 3R91E, MR-184E Lev-218, 2x MR-123-02 Vympel-A, MR-212/201-1 Vaygach-U, MR-212/201-3 Vaygach-U radars, MGK-335MSE Platina-MSE, SSN-137, 2x MG-7 Braslet sonars, 2x Spektr-F laser detectors, E/O sensor (NATO Codename 'Squeeze Box), MP-401E Start, MP-407E Start-2 ECM suites, 8x PK-10 Smelyy, 2x PK-2M decoy RLs, Sapfir-U CCS |
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Complement |
343 |
Project history: Russian project 956E. A letter of intent to order the first pair was signed in 1997; the final contract for $667 million for the pair was signed next year. Hangzhou was handed over to Chinese control 24.2.1999; sea trials began in July and she arrived in China on 15.2.2000. Fuzhou conducted sea trials from June to August 2000 in the Baltic and was handed over on 25.11.2000. These are the incomplete 18th and 19th units of the class initially ordered for the Russian Navy. Although one had been launched, work on both had been suspended; the first was 65% complete when purchased and the other 35%. The ships are primarily intended for surface warfare tasks, including antiship, shore-bombardment, and AA defense; the minimal ASW capability is primarily for self-defense. Although this is by no means a state-of-the-art design (the ships were designed in the mid-1960s), they are vastly superior to anything else in Chinese service.
The propulsion plant is essentially the same as that of the preceding Russian projects 1134/A and employs turbopressurized boilers. Fin stabilizers are fitted. The first pair were begun as Project 956A ships to carry longer cruise-missile tubes to accept a probable extended-range Moskit missile and a naval version of the S-300 SAM, vice the Uragan system’s original 9M38M Smerch missiles. The SAM launchers are apparently limited to launch angles within 30º of the centerline, a significant handicap; there may be only 16 ready-service missiles per launcher, with the other four requiring assembly and loading onto the ready-service rings. The ships have the large Mineral-E radome associated with surface-to-surface missile targeting systems. There are also two small spherical radomes on the sides of the stack that are missile datalink-associated.The 130-mm guns are of a fully automatic, water-cooled model, capable of AA or surface fire; they are restricted to firing arcs of 40º each side of the centerline. Squeeze Box is an optronic gunfire-control director combining a laser rangefinder, low-light-level television, and infrared devices.Modernizations: 2019, Hangzhou: - 2 x 4 Moskit-E SSM, 2 x 1 M-22 Shtil' SAM, 4 x 6 - 30/54, MGK-335MSE Platina-MSE sonar; + 2 x 4 YJ-12A SSM (8 YJ-12A), 2 x 24 YJ-18 SSM / HQ-16 SAM (48 YJ-18 / HQ-16), 2 x 10 HQ-10 SAM (20 HQ-10), 2 x 11 - 30/80 type 1130, SJD-18 sonar
Naval service: No significant events.
Fuzhou 2000
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