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today, one of the China top Shipyards launched three new PLAN vessels from the same Dry-Dock . this shipyard is barely 5-600m away from my office, I just spared some time watching the launch operation at noon...



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the forth 071 LPD was towed out of the dock first --- image source: WC forum...



the fifth surveillance ship of this class was the second launched



the third is the 21st 054A Frigate

 

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PLAN summary of year 2015 .....

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in this year, PLAN got three more 6000 tons class Destroyers-- 1 type 052C and 2 type 052D DDGs

1. the last of 6 Type 052C DDG was commissioned on 6th Feb...Pennant number : PLAN 153 XiAn



2. the second 052D joined in PLAN on 17th Aug 2015... it's PLAN 173 ChangSha



3. another one was commission just around 10 days ago on 12th Dec---- PLAN 174 HeFei



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4.the 4th and 5th of this class have begun the sea trials..

5.Two more were launched ...one was launched in the south shipyard in July and one from the north shipyard in Nov...they are the 7th and 8th of this class



and One more is going to touch the water within this year. it should be the 10th of this class(the 9th would be later than this one)

 

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also in this year... the number of commissioned Type 054A Frigate might set a new record. Four have joined in the PLAN fleets and two more have arrived the new home port, the official ceremony might be held before the year end of 2015... we are waiting for the official statements on the media...if so, PLAN would got 6 more these 4000 tons class fighting vessels this year and make the total number in service -- 22 ships of this class.

1.on Jan 16th, both FFG 576 HuangGang and FFG 577 DaQing were commissioned on the same day in different ports..



2. FFG 579 HanDan on Aug 19th



3. FFG 578 YangZhou on Sep 21th...



4. the coming FFG 531 XiangTan



and FFG 532 JinZhou(old pic with Pennant number unpainted, early of this year)



5.the 23rd of 054A class was launched few weeks ago....and now it's just aroud hundreds of meters away from my office..LOL...



6. the 24th vessel is under construction on the indoor slipway

 

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..........................................

and One more is going to touch the water within this year. it should be the 10th of this class(the 9th would be later than this one)


it happened as we said ....the #10 type 052D destroyer is launched today... but it was the 9th vessel of this class which touched the water, the #9 052D is still on the slipway in antoher shipyard waiting her moment...

 

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in 2015, around 5-6 Type 056 corvettes joined in PLAN...

501 信阳 2015-3-7
502 黄石 2015-5-6
503 宿州 2015-2-11
504 宿迁 2015-7-20
505 秦皇岛 2015-10-16
506 曲靖 2015-X-X




also in this year, 7 more type 056/056A were Launched...so far, 31 ships of this class have been confirmed... the lastest one (31st vessel) was launched on 25th Dec...




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BTW...few days ago, two export varient - P13B corvettes were hand over to Bangladesh navy, they are leaving China heading for the Indian Ocean right now...

F111 Shadhinota
F112 Prottoy




 
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PLAN's Auxiliary fleet also got some kind of burst in 2015...
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one 20000 tons Fleet Replenishment Ship.. She joined in PLAN on 28th Dec

PLANS 960 DongPingHu



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more were hand overed to PLAN, but the official cememony was not held yet..so we might have to put them into year 2016 plan...

PLAN 963 and PLAN 966



another one hasn't finished yet...but we are sure it would be commissioned in this year.

an image few days ago...



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two 15000 tons class Island supply vessels were commissioned in July and December

PLANS 961 JunShanHu
PLANS 962 GuLuHu



and one more of this class is under constrution


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a 50000 tons class Fleet Support Vessel was launched few month ago...it would play a key role in PLAN auxiliary fleet to support the Carrier Combat Group.

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other new Auxiliary fleet ships in 2015
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PLANS 868 Semi-Submersible Heavy Lift Vessel , commissioned on 10th July...


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several Transportation ships ---- PLANS NanYun830 / 831 etc.


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New ICE Breaker ---- PLANS Haibin722



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New Ocean Tug---- PLANS BeiTuo721



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more Electronic Intelligence ships and Survey ships

PLANS 852 854 855 874...etc...



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Amphibious fleet also got some new vessels to replace the retired one in 2015

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three improved 072A Tank landing ships were commissioned in May, October 2015 and |Jan 2016
LST 981 / 982 / 916



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the second Zubr-class -- LCAC 3326



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the Type 726 LCAC 3322 etc.



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the 4th Type 071 LPD is also handed over to PLAN by the year end...but the official ceremony would be on 1st Feb... LPD 988 NiMengShan

 

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