Type 052D guided-missile destroyer Lishui (Hull 157) attached to a flotilla under the Chinese PLA Navy maneuvers to the designated training area on November 11, 2024. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by ...

It also has a strong anti-submarine capability, so it is much more able to protect aircraft carrier battle group than the Type-052D destroyers currently in service which carry only 64 missiles.

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.

In May, military experts spied a peculiar, half-built vessel sitting among warships at a Shanghai dockyard. Satellite images showed it had the shape and size of a Type-052D, an advanced guided ...

Japan, one of two U.S. treaty allies in Northeast Asia, said it dispatched naval vessels and patrol planes to monitor a pair ...

The development of Chinese destroyer design since the 1990s is a good example of how this works. In 2013 the first of the Chinese Type 052D destroyers was seen on sea trials in the East China Sea.