The Type 052D, which displaces up to 7,500 tons, is a dedicated multi-role destroyer known by the NATO reporting class Luyang III, a designation that reflects its hull upgrade from the smaller ...

The Master 'PLAN': China's New Guided Missile Destroyer China’s navy appears on the verge of creating a new class of warship. It could eventually alter the balance of naval power in the region.

The new destroyer is the first to be assigned to the People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) North Sea Fleet. Chinese newest guided-missile destroyer is equipped with a deadly load of modern ...

including a Keelung-class destroyer (formerly a Kidd-class destroyer) watching China’s Type 052D destroyer the Guilin. It also showed surveillance photographs of Chinese attack drones and uncrewed ...

China will send the destroyer Baotou and the replenishment ship Gaoyouhu from the PLA Navy’s 47th escort task group, the Defense Ministry stated. The Baotou is a Type 052D guided missile ...