NANCHANG (101 DESTROYER

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Chinese destroyer NANCHANG (101) built as as destroyer by the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai as type 055 destroyer for the Chinese Navy.


NANCHANG (101) is a Type 055 destroyer of the People's Liberation Army Navy. She was commissioned on 12 January 2020.
December 2014 laid down.
28 June 2017 launched as the NANCHANG (101), she is the lead ship of her class.
Displacement 12- 13000 ton (full load) dim. 180 x 20 x 6.6m (draught)
Powered 6 x QD-50 turbine generators (5 MW, 6,700 hp each, total 30 MW (40,000 shp.
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4 x QC-280 gas turbines(28MW (38,000 hp each). Total 112 MW (150,000 shp, speed 30 knots. Range 5.000 mile

The People's Liberation Army Navy was interested in a large destroyer from as early as the late-1960s. A development program, code-named "055", initiated in 1976 was cancelled in 1983 after encountering insurmountable technical obstacles from industrial underdevelopment; for example, the required gas turbine power plants could neither be produced domestically, nor imported at acceptable prices. In April 2014, an image emerged of a full-scale mock-up of the Type 055 superstructure - with enclosed integrated mast for radar and other electronics at the Chinese naval electronic testing range in Wuhan. The Type 055 is expected to undertake expeditionary missions and form the primary escort for Chinese aircraft carriers. The United States classifies these ships as cruisers. The United States Navy defines a cruiser as a large multi-mission surface combatant with flagship capabilities; this suggests the U.S. expects the Type 055 to fulfill a similar role as the Ticonderogaclass cruiser.


NANCHANG is the lead ship of the class and laid down in December 2014 at the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai. She made her first public appearance preceding commissioning was during the PLAN's 70th anniversary parade on 23 April 2019. When launched, NANCHANG was among the largest post-Second World War warships launched in East Asia. She was commissioned on 12 January 2020. On 5 April 2021, NANCHANG became the first destroyer of her class take part in an aircraft carrier group in which was the aircraft carrier LIAONING, Chengdu, Development and design Construction and career Sensors and processing systems Type 346B (C/S-band) radar X-band radar Electronic warfare & decoys Electronic warfare system

Armament 1 × H/PJ-38 130 mm gun 1 × H/PJ-11 CIWS 1 × HQ-10 short-range SAM 24-cell launcher 112 VLS HHQ-9 surface-to-air missiles YJ-18 anti-ship cruise missiles CJ-10 land-attack cruise missiles Missile-launched antisubmarine torpedoes YJ-21 anti-ship ballistic missiles 2 x sets Yu-7 torpedoes.

Aircraft carried 2 medium-lift helicopters Harbin Z-9 Changhe Z-18 Aviation facilities Stern hangar Helicopter landing platform TAIYUAN, HUANGGANG and HULUNHU, while they were spotted between Okinawa and Miyako Island.

On 22 May 2022, NANCHANG conducted drills in the East China Sea as a part of the Liaoning Carrier Group; and they were sighted near Miyako Island by the JMSD

2024 In active service.

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