When it comes to the domestic 054A frigate, this type of ship , known as the "new youth", may be the largest number of frigate in domestic history. 054AP based on this has also become an excellent foreign trade ship. Although the overall cost-effectiveness and combat capability of 054A are excellent, there are also times when comma is drawn. The 40th ship of 054A recently may be the last domestic ship, 054A, which is about to be launched, laying the foundation for the future dumplings of 054B.
According to social media reports, the 40th ship of the domestic 054A may be launched this month, which also indicates that the construction of 10 054A frigates in this batch is about to end. It took only about one year to lay the dumplings this time. And this may be the last domestic 054A ship, and 054B will be released on 054A to continue its glory.
According to the current situation, the scale of 054A is already very large, with a total of nearly 40 ships. It is not only the largest single-class destroyer in China, but also the largest frigate model in service in the world. Currently, most of the frigates made in the West, such as Norwegian Nansen class, Netherlands seven provincial level, and Italian FREMM class are around 5 ships. Although the tonnage is larger, it is difficult to compare with 054A in quantity. In fact, the construction number of this batch of 054A has been adjusted. According to military fans' speculation, 20 new batches of 054A may be built. In this regard, we can see from the upgrade of the phased array fire control radar of 054A. If only about 10 ships are built, it is impossible to upgrade such a larger equipment. If 20 dumplings are placed, the final number of 054A may reach as many as 50, further opening up the gap with Western frigates.
However, the final number of new batches of 054A is about 10. Military fans speculate that the purpose of doing this is to leave a certain amount of space for 054B. It is not difficult to imagine that when 054A ships out 20 new batches of dumplings, the overall design or technology of 054B may not have made any breakthroughs, but after the construction of 054A for a period of time, the 054B technology has made a breakthrough. This reduces the number and leaves a certain amount of preparation for 054B to lay dumplings. Of course, some technical upgrades made on 054A will not be wasted. They have the opportunity to appear on 054B. After all, most of the technical upgrades from 054A to 054B are relatively smooth, and they are also a consistent improvement in technology.
And a small part of the unique technologies of 054B may be one of the technologies that suddenly made breakthroughs even if all-electric advances. In fact, it has been said that all-electric propulsion has been said for a long time, and the technology has matured, but before it is implemented on large ships, a smaller scale and lower risk will be required to test it to make it more reassuring. Therefore, military fans believe that the 054B may have undertaken this task and become the first ship in China to use all-electric propulsion. It is precisely the success of this technology in design and testing that has allowed 054B to enter the user's vision in advance, so it was sent to the line between the 054A20 orders and became a new target for dumplings.
Overall, if the 40th domestically produced 054A is the last ship of this class, it will undoubtedly leave space for the mass production of 054B in the future, including dock capacity space and compilation space, which will form a large batch of 054A plus a small batch of 054B. With the withdrawal of a number of old ships of 054A, 054B and improved models will gradually become the mainstream of domestic frigates, and at that time, the popularization of domestic frigates "Shield Shields" will also be promoted. This scene is also quite spectacular.
