Type 052 Luhu-class Destroyer

The Chinese navy destroyer PLANS Harbin (DDG-112) departs San Diego, California, with crew manning the rails, on March 25th, 1997.

The Type 052 Luhu-class was one of the first modern multi-role guided missile destroyers built by China. There are currently two units in active service with the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) with no plans of further construction of additional units. Instead these will be followed by the stealthier Type 052D-class.

Specifications

• Type: Guided Missile Destroyer
• Service Period: 1994-Present
• Characteristics:
  • Length: 467.8 feet (142.59 meters)
  • Beam: 49.5 feet (15.09 meters)
  • Draft: 16.7 feet (5.09 meters)
  • Displacement: 4,200 tons (standard), 4,800 tons (full load)
• Crew: 260 (40 officers and 220 enlisted)
• Propulsion: 2 General Electric LM2500 gas-turbines, 55,000 hp (41 MW) + MTU Friedrichshafen 12V 1163TB83 diesel, 8,840 hp (6.5 MW)
• Range: 4,000 nautical miles (7,408 kilometers) at 15 knots (27.78 km/h)
• Speed: 31 knots (57.41 km/h)
• Sensor Suite:
  • Type 517M long-range air search radar
  • Type 364 air/surface search radar for CIWS
  • Thomson-CSF TSR 3004 (DRBV-15) Sea Tiger air/surface radar, E/F band (112 Harbin)
  • Type 360S (SR60) air/surface radar, E/F band (113 Qingdao)
  • Type 345 (MR35) fire-control radar for HQ-7 Surface-to-air missile system, J-band
  • Type 344 (MR34) fire-control for YJ-8x SSM and 100 mm gun, I/J band
  • Type 347G (EFR-1) Rice Lamp fire-control radar for 37 mm AA guns, I-band x 2
  • Racal RM-1290 navigation radar, I-band x 2
  • DUBV-23 (SJD-8/9) medium-frequency hull-mounted radar
  • DUBV-43 (ESS-1) towed medium-frequency VDS
  • ZKJ-4B Information Processing System
  • Type 630 (GDG-775) optronic directors x 2
  • HN-900 Data Link System
  • SNTI-240 SATCOM Communications System
• Countermeasures:
  • 1 x Type 984-1 ECM 'X' band jammer (transmitter)
  • 1 x Type 984-4 ECM 'X' band jammer (receiver)
  • 1 x Type 928A ESM
  • 2 x Type 946 15-barrel chaff/decoy launcher
  • 2 x Type 726-4 122mm 24-tube decoy launchers (2011-Present)
• Armament:
  • 1 x Type H/PJ33A dual 100mm/56-caliber gun
  • 1 x 8-cell HQ-7 SAM with 8 ready to fire missiles + 16 spare missiles
  • 4 x quad YJ-83 (C-803) AShM box launchers
  • 2 x Type 87 6-tube ASW rocket launchers
  • 2 x Type 7424 324 mm Yu-7 ASW torpedo tubes
  • 2 x H/PJ12 (Type 730) 7-barrel 30 mm CIWS
• Aircraft Carried: 2 x Kamov Ka-27 'Helix' or Harbin Z-9C

Unit Run

Number	Pennant Number	Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fleet	Status
1	112	哈尔滨 / Harbin	Jiangnan	August 28th 1991	May 8th, 1994	North Sea Fleet	Active.
2	113	青岛 / Qingdao	Jiangnan	October 18th, 1993	May 28th, 1996	North Sea Fleet	Active.