Yancheng (546) is a Type 054A frigate of the People's Liberation Army Navy. She was commissioned on 5 June 2012.
Development and design
The Type 054A carries HQ-16 medium-range air defence missiles and anti-submarine missiles in a vertical launching system (VLS) system. The HQ-16 has a range of up to 50 km, with superior range and engagement angles to the Type 054's HQ-7. The Type 054A's VLS uses a hot launch method; a shared common exhaust system is sited between the two rows of rectangular launching tubes.[1]
The four AK-630 close-in weapon systems (CIWS) of the Type 054 were replaced with two Type 730 CIWS on the Type 054A. The autonomous Type 730 provides improved reaction time against close-in threats.[2]
Construction and career
Yancheng was launched on 27 April 2011 at the Hudong–Zhonghua Shipbuilding in Shanghai. Commissioned on 5 June 2012.
Yancheng participated with Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy and western vessels in the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons.[3]
Gallery
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Yancheng underway on 25 July 2013. -
Yancheng underway on 12 July 2014. -
Yancheng underway on 27 December 2014. -
Yancheng underway on 19 August 2019.
References
- ^ 舰载武器SHIPBORNE WEAPONS 2013 AUGUST ISSUE
- ^ "Chinese Navy". Archived from the original on 7 January 2007. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
- ^ Notte, Hanna (2 January 2020). "The United States, Russia, and Syria's chemical weapons: a tale of cooperation and its unravelling". The Nonproliferation Review. 27 (1–3): 201–224. doi:10.1080/10736700.2020.1766226. S2CID 225770190.
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