CNS Luohe, the first ship of the Type 054B that has a hull number "545," was put into service at a military port in Qingdao, ...
The Navy wing of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has commissioned a new-generation frigate, which it says will play a ...
China’s navy has commissioned a new-generation frigate as competition rises with the US and other regional powers, saying the ...
China’s first Type 054B frigate, the Luohe, was commissioned into the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) on Wednesday. The ship class, referred to by the U.S. and NATO as the Jiangkai III class, ...
Now that China’s latest frigate has been commissioned with the PLAN, the vessel joins around 233 other warships in the fleet. Beijing achieved yet another naval milestone this week when the Chinese ...
“In other words, they’re altering the plans as they go along,” as one former Royal Navy frigate captain opines. You get the uneasy sense that Constellation is the frigate of the future—and ...
including helicopter flights from the frigate’s deck after departing the Greek island of Corfu, the Fleet’s press office reported on Thursday. "During the exercise, the crew of a deck-based Ka ...
New capabilities also looked likely in the addition of a vertical launching system for air defence, which would be a first for the Myanmar Navy’s frigate programme. The King Thalun’s helicopter deck ...
The Navy began procuring Constellation (FFG-62) class frigates (FFGs) in FY2020, and a total of six have been procured through FY2024. Current Navy plans call for procuring a total of at least 20 ...
TASS/. The shipborne air task force of the Russian cutting-edge frigate Admiral Gorshkov armed with Tsirkon hypersonic missiles practiced flights of a deck-based Ka-27 helicopter in adverse ...
The first Type 054B frigate, christened the Luohe, was commissioned Wednesday in Qingdao, a port city in northern China where the PLAN’s northern fleet is based. The ship has a displacement of ...