Type 052B destroyer

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The Type 052B (NATO/OSD Luyang I-class destroyer) is a class of guided-missile destroyers in the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force (PLAN). Two ships - Guangzhou and Wuhan - were begun in 2001 and commissioned in July and December 2004 respectively. The Type 052B was China's first modern destroyer design and the first Chinese design to incorporate true medium-range air defence capability in the form of Russian Shtil-1 (improved navalized Buk, NATO designation SA-N-12) surface-to-air missiles (SAM). The H/AKJ-16 VLS-based HQ-16 surface-to-air missiles were installed on the ships during modernization.

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