SPECIFICATIONS
  • Displacement: Tons: 3,250 standard; 3,730 full load
  • Dimensions: Ft: 433.1 x 42 x 15.3
  • Main machinery: 2 boilers; 2 turbines; 72,000-hp (m) (53 MW); 2 shafts
  • Speed: Knots: 32
  • Range: Miles: 2,970 at 18 kt
  • Complement: 280 (45 officers)
MISSILES
SSM: 8 YJ-1 (Eagle Strike) (C-801) (CSS-N-4 Sardine) (4 twin) launchers [Ref 1]
active radar homing to 40 km (22 n miles) at 0.9 Mach
warhead 165 kg; sea-skimmer.
SAM: LY 60N in due course. A/S: The after set of launchers may also be used for CY-1 Anti-submarine missiles; range 8-15 km (4.4-8.3 n miles).

 
GUNS
4 USSR 5.1 in (130 mm)/58 (2 twin) [Ref 2]; 85°elevation; 17 rds/min to 29 km (16 n miles); weight of shell 33.4 kg.
8 China 37 mm/63 (4 twin) [Ref 3]; 85° elevation; 180 rds/min to 8.5 km (4.6 n miles); weight of shell 1.42 kg.

 

 
TORPEDOES
6 - 324 mm Whitehead B515 (2 triple tubes) [Ref 4];
Yu-2 (Mk 46 Mod 1); active/passive homing to 11 km (5.9 n miles) at 40 kt; warhead 44 kg.
A/S MORTARS: 2 FQF 2500 12-tubed fixed launchers [Ref 5]; 120 rockets; range 1,200 m; warhead 34 kg. Similar in design to the RBU 1200.

 
COUNTERMEASURES
Decoys: 2 - 15 tubed fixed launchers for chaff
and IR decoys.
ESM: Jug Pair (RW-23-1); radar warning.
RADARS
Air search: Rice Screen 3D; G-band. Similar to Hughes SPS-39A.
Surface search: China ESR 1 I-band.
Navigation: Racal Decca 1290; I-band.
Fire control: Type 343 Sun Visor B G/H-band.
IFF: High Pole.

 
SONARS
Hull-mounted; active search and attack;
medium frequency.
VDS; active search and attack; medium frequency.

 
PROGRAMME
Updated Luda design. Possibly now in series production but there may be confusion with more of the "Luhu" class.
 
STRUCTURE
Modified after SSM launchers which may fire the CY-1 anti-submarine missile and the LY 60N SAM in due course.
 
OPERATIONAL
South Seas Fleet based at Zhanjiang. There have long been reports of a ballistic trajectory ASW weapon CY-1 and the different types of SSM launchers in Zhuhai indicate that the weapon may now be operational. Different pennant number used for foreign deployments.
 

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