According to foreign media reports, the Chinese Navy seems to have started a new round of ** "dumplings" stage, and at present, 25 052D ships have been put into service, and 10 ships are under construction. Not long ago, at the Dalian shipyard, 5 ships in different stages of construction were photographed at the same time, 052DL side by side in the dock.
At the same time, Taiwan's "China Times" quoted foreign *** as saying that the mainland has been rumored for a long time to deal with the US military's new Burke-class Type 052E destroyer, and the construction is about to start. The full load displacement of Type 052E destroyers will increase to 8000 9000 tons, which is comparable in tonnage to the Hyundai-class Type 956E M destroyers acquired from Russia. The 052E destroyer will use the Type 346B GaN active phased array radar, which is at least one generation ahead of the Burke-class Flight-III SPY-6 GaAs active phased array radar. In terms of the vertical hair system, the 052D has been expanded from 64 units to 80 units, and the 052E will also be regarded as the ultimate version of the 052 series.
Now the question is: is it possible for China to build 052E? Almost impossible in the short term.
First of all, we must understand that the Chinese Navy has a need for the construction of destroyers of this class. The reason why such a voice can appear on the Internet is not that there is no reason at all, but that it really makes sense. China has a displacement of 1The 30,000-ton 055, below is the 6-7000 thousand-class 052D, and then the main ship below is the 4000-ton frigate. If you look closely, it seems that something is missing. That's right, in 1.Between 30,000 tons and 7,000 tons, there is one less 9,000-ton destroyer.
If China can have such a type of destroyer in the future, it will be more friendly to the construction of the ocean-going aircraft carrier formation, because the displacement of 052DE will not be so comfortable compared to a large number of ship-borne equipment, leaving the crew with space for activities, and increasing the displacement of 2000 tons, the number of equipment on the hull and the living environment of personnel can be improved, and the handling force during ocean-going operations will be stronger. Therefore, it is entirely possible that China will have a 9,000-ton destroyer in the future, which is exactly about the same size as Burke III. However, the time to build this type of destroyer should not be now, but many years from now.
Second, the construction of a 9,000-ton Type 052E is almost a matter of course, and China has added a Type 1 destroyer, which is a big burden for China's limited military spending. Although it is very good to have the so-called 052E, the key to the problem is money, the military spending of the Chinese Navy is limited, and adding another 9000-ton destroyer is equivalent to giving the Navy one more model. This will greatly increase the complexity of the Navy's logistics, and there will be a waste of military spending.
Finally, and more importantly, China must have a mutually substitution relationship between 052DL and the so-called 052E. You can also understand it this way, if China is still building a large number of 052DL, there will be no 052E at all, if there is 052E construction, then it is when 052D and 052DL start to be decommissioned. Although there is a gap between the two in terms of ocean self-sustaining ability, there is still a substitution relationship in terms of positioning.
Another point is that the future war pursues platform dispersion and concentration of firepower, and 052DL has both advantages and disadvantages with the help of integrated supply ships, and the advantages are not small, which may also lead to China not rushing to build 9000-ton destroyers.
Because for modern naval warfare, you install 96 vertical hairs, I install 48 vertical hairs, anyway, as long as it is hit by a missile, it is one shot, and there will be no fundamental gap in survivability. On the contrary, the cost of 052DL is low and the cost of use is low, and the naval strength of surrounding countries is strong enough and completely sufficient.
In addition, it is unlikely that the ** used by China will use "e" as the number, and this type of ** is mainly used for export. So, it would be more reasonable to have 052de, and it is not so reliable that 052e exists.
Overall, it is almost impossible for China to build a 9,000-ton destroyer in the short term, and when the 052D is decommissioned in another 20 years, we have even more reason to see the debut of this new ship with the 055. China is still building a large number of 052DL, which shows that our thinking on army building is so pragmatic. List of high-quality authors