The Chinese used this class of ship in a simulated confrontation with the Americans. During the simulation, the Type 055 destroyer was attacked by ten LRASM anti-ship missiles launched from ...

The Type 055 large destroyer Zunyi of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy fires its close-in weapon system during a combat exercise in the Pacific Ocean in February 2025. Photo ...

In the sixth of a series on Chinese weapons systems ... s newest variety of naval destroyer was on show last week when Type 055 destroyer Zunyi led a small flotilla to conduct live-fire drills ...

The Chinese navy targeted aerial and maritime ... According to the CCTV report, the naval task group was led by the Type 055 stealth guided-missile destroyer Zunyi, and included the Type 054A ...

The Chinese Navy deployed the Type 055 Renhai-class destroyer for three different military drills in the Yellow Sea, the contentious South China Sea, the Pacific Ocean. In a worrying development ...

Yet, the Type 055’s focus on anti-ship weapons would likely give it an edge over the American warship in combat. Don’t forget, too, that the Chinese Type 055’s could operate together on the ...

For reasons unspecified, the Chinese task force was attacked by a US carrier strike group, which targeted a Type 055 destroyer escorting the Chinese carrier. The new Type 055 — a 13,000-ton ...

Reports in Chinese state media this week confirmed the presence of three ships - a Type 055 destroyer, a Type 054 frigate and a replenishment vessel - in the Tasman Sea. The full extent of the ...

The Tasman Sea is a 900,000 square mile area of water in the South Pacific situated between Australia and New Zealand. This body of water hosted live fire exercises from the Chinese Navy in ...

Work is already under way at Chinese shipyards on a second batch ... Officially classified by the navy as a guided-missile destroyer, the Type 055 is bigger and more powerful than a standard ...