Ilary Montanari - 051 (Emanuele Inglese Remix) [Klaphouse Records]

did you know, that the type, "051", (NATO code name Luda class Guided missile destroyer), was the first modern surface warfare oriented vessel ever designed and built in China, and the first Chinese ship to be fitted with an integrated com, though some other sources say the Neustrashimy class destroyer, with some features from the Kotlin class. China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) decommissioned its Luda-class (Types 051) guided-missile destroyer Nanchang on 8 September 2016, according to the China Military Online website. The vessel, which served with the PLAN for almost 34 years, was believed to be the country's last active Type 051 destroyer. The ship is set to be sent back to Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, where it is expected to become a tourist attraction at a local military-themed park, In the late 1960s, China began testing its long-range rockets for the Chinese space program, as well as the ICBM program. The People's Liberation Army Navy Surface Force operated only four ex-Soviet Gnevny class destroyers (Anshan class in PLAN service) at the time, which were unsuitable for long-range ocean recovery missions. The 701 institute was instructed to develop China's first indigenous guided missile destroyer, modelled after the Soviet Kotlin class. The design was approved in 1967, and construction of the first Type 051 Luda class destroyer began in 1968. A total of 16 Type 051 destroyers were built between 1968 and 1991. 9 remain in service today. Major refit for ships of this class began in the 1990s, replacing the old HY-1/HY-2 with YJ-83 (C-803) missile, and manual guns with automatic guns. For air-defense, an 8-cell HQ-7 Surface-to-air missile system is also installed with the upgrade. Displacement 3,250 tons (empty), 3,670 tons (loaded)

Length 433.1 ft (132.0 m) / 132 meters

Beam 42 ft (13 m) / 12.8 meters

Draft 15.3 ft (4.7 m)

Speed ~30+ kts

Endurance 2,970 nautical miles (5,500 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)

Crew 280 (45 officers)

Propulsion 2 boilers 2 turbines 72,000 hp(m) (53 MW) 2 shafts

C3I System: combat data systems of ZKJ series (ZKJ = Zidong Kongzhi Jiqi: automatic control machines)

ZKJ-1 for Luda I

ZKJ-4 for Luda II

Thomson-CSF TAVITAC for Luda III (051G1/G2)

ZKJ-4A-3 for Luda mid-life upgrade (051DT)

Data link: HN-900 (Chinese equivalent of Link 11A/B, to be upgraded)

Radar/Sonar

Type 517A Knife Rest, or Cross Slot 3-D long-range air search, A-band

Type 515 Bean Sticks or Pea Sticks air search radar, E/F-band

Rice Screen 3-D early warning lon-range radar, G-band

Square Tie air/surface-search radar, I-band

TSR 3004 (DRBV-15 Sea Tiger) or Eye-Shield air/surface search radar (E-band)

Type 343G fire-control radar (for 100 mm gun)

Type 347 fire-control radar (for automatic 37 mm guns)

Racal RM-1290 navigation radar (J-band)

High pole IFF

Pegas 2M & Tamir 2 medium-frequency hull-mounted sonar

Chinese guided missile destroyer KAIFENG (109) was upgraded with HQ-7 SAM

Armament

16 × YJ-83 (C-803) anti-ship missiles in 4 × quad launcher boxes

1 × 8-cell HQ-7 Surface-to-air missile launcher + 16 spare missiles

2 × twin 100 mm guns

4 × Type 76A dual-37 mm automatic AA guns

2 × Type 75 (FQF-2500) 12 barrel 240 mm ASW rocket launchers (120 rockets)

2 × triple 324 mm Yu-7 torpedo launchers

4 × DC projectors + 4 DC racks

2 × Chaff/decoy rocket launchers

at least it can do some good, by entertaining peep's, after blowing others up, maybe they should sink it and turn it into an artificial reef as, standardz, hahahahahaha, :) #edio