China’s PLA’s newest and largest tonnage Type 055 guided missile destroyer is seen in the waters near Japan.
The situation between China and Japan in the East China Sea has recently become tense due to China’s “Naval Law”. Japan’s Ministry of Defense “United Shogunate Supervision Department” announced that the Maritime Self-Defense Force warplanes and ships, the first Time to confirm the Chinese PLA’s latest and largest tonnage Type 055 guided missile destroyer in the waters near Japan, and sailed in the direction of the Sea of Japan, no PLA ships were found and entered Japanese territorial waters. As for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s most advanced SHIELD-class warship “Haguro” was commissioned on Friday (19). (By Chen Junhao)
The Ministry of Defense’s Unification Shogunate announced that on Thursday (18) at about 11 a.m., P-1 maritime patrol aircraft belonging to the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s 4th Air Group, the multi-purpose support ship Amakusa belonging to the Sasebo Police Force, and the missile speedboat White Eagle belonging to the 3rd Missile Speedboat Team, spotted three Chinese naval vessels crossing the sea 250 kilometers southwest of Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, heading northeast toward the Sea of Japan. The three Chinese Navy ships were
The three Chinese naval vessels were the over 10,000-ton Type 055 guided missile destroyer Nanchang, the Type 052D guided missile destroyer Chengdu and the Type 054A guided missile frigate Daqing. “.
Japan’s “Sankei Shimbun” quoted the Ministry of Unification of the Shogunate that this is the first time the Maritime Self-Defense Force found in the waters near Japan, the Chinese Navy’s largest tonnage missile destroyer appeared in the vicinity of Japan’s territorial waters.
The Type 055 destroyer is the PLA’s newest and most powerful destroyer, using a system similar to that of the U.S. S.H.I.E.L.D. class destroyers (Chinese translation: Zeus class).
The USS Haguro, which was just commissioned on Friday, will be deployed at Sasebo Base in Nagasaki Prefecture and will have the same capability as the SHIELD Moyo, which will be commissioned in March 2020, to share information on enemy missiles and aircraft with allied aircraft and warships. “The system is also capable of sharing information on enemy missiles and aircraft with allied aircraft and warships.
The Haguro has a standard displacement of 8,200 tons, a length of 170 meters, a width of 21 meters, and a cost of approximately 170 billion yen.
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