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PEOPLE`S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY (PEOPLE`S REPUBLIC OF CHINA)

ESCORTS

SIPING frigate (project 053H1Q, 1985)

Siping 2000

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
四平 [Siping], 7.2010- 旅顺 [Lushun] 544   Hudong SY, Shanghai   29.9.1985 24.12.1985 TS 2007-7/2010, in service (2019)

 

Displacement standard, t

1600

Displacement full, t

1820

Length, m

103.2

Breadth, m

10.2

Draught, m

3.05 hull

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 SEMT-Pielstick 12PA6 280BTC diesels

Power, h. p.

16000

Max speed, kts

25.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts)

4000(15)

Armament

1 x 2 Hai Ying-2A SSM (2 C-201A), 1 x 1 - 100/55 Compact T100C, 4 x 2 - 37/63 type 76, 2 x 3 - 324 ILAS-3 TT, 2 x 5 type 81 ASWRL, 1 helicopter (Z-9A)

Sensors

type 756, type 354, type 352C, type 341 radars, SJD-7 sonar, RWD-8 ECM suite, 2x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL

Complement

185

Project history: This was the first Chinese warship to be built with helicopter capability, with a hangar and pad aft for one Zhi-9 helicopter (a Chinese-built version of the French SA-365N Dauphin), replacing the after gun mount and two SSM launchers. Also equipped with a French main gun and ASW torpedoes and US decoy launchers.

Modernizations: mid-1990s: - type 352C radar; + type 348 radar

Naval service: No significant events.

Siping 2003

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