056A light frigate, the ship-based weapons include 1 76mm single-barrel naval gun, 2 30mm single-barrel naval guns, or 2 double-mounted 14.5mm heavy machine guns, 2 3-mounted 324mm light torpedo launchers, and 2 9-mounted rocket launchers with unknown caliber.
has two twin missile launchers on the ship, mainly used to launch the "Yu-8" anti-submarine missile, and can also launch the "Eagle Strike-83J" anti-ship missile; an 8-mounted "Hongqi-10" short-range air defense missile launcher can intercept various types of anti-ship missiles that are attacking at Mach 3 within 10 kilometers.
In addition, the 056A light frigate has no helicopter hangar built, nor is it equipped with anti-submarine helicopter . There is a helicopter take-off and landing platform at the stern of the ship, which can provide a 4-ton straight-9 with the ship to sea or land on the ship in the middle, and perform anti-submarine , search and rescue, reconnaissance, vertical supply, transport of wounded personnel, and anti-ship missile relay guidance.
056A light frigate, including naval gun , secondary gun or heavy machine gun , missile , torpedo , rocket , helicopter, etc. For ships with a tonnage of only more than 1,000 tons, it can be said to be full of everything. Some military fans call it "although the sparrow is small, has all the internal organs ."
There is an article on the Internet that the 056A light frigate has a somewhat weak overall combat performance. In fact, it is not without reason. It is not a denial of this type of warship , but a more objective statement.
They compare the light frigate , which has a tonnage of less than 10,000 tons in other countries' naval navals, but they have 8-16 ship-based vertical launch devices, and have hypersonic missile anti-ship strikes, especially cruise missile land attack capabilities.
Russian Navy's "Mob-M" class light frigate, with a full load displacement of 950 tons, and a volume of less than 1,000 tons. Compared with the comparison of the 056A light frigate, the additional displacement of more than 400 tons is equivalent to the volume of a 037G1 missile speedboat in service in our Navy. The boat is equipped with two twin-mounted C-801 anti-ship missile launchers.
"Thug-M" class light frigate is equipped with an 8-mounted 3S14 universal vertical launch device, which can launch 300 kilometers of M54E "Club" anti-ship missile , 1,000 kilometers of "Zircon" hypersonic missile and 2,500 kilometers of "Care-NK" land attack cruise missile.
Russian Navy Caspian Squadron once launched the "Care-NK" cruise missile, hitting IS terrorist forces within Syria 1,500 kilometers away, thus shocking the global naval community and making the outside world admire this small ship, becoming the most sensational major international military news at the time.
In the eyes of the West, the small Russian Navy missile ship with a size of less than 1,000 tons has the ability to strike strategic strikes from sea to land. It is indeed quite amazing to attack targets on the shore thousands of kilometers away, and only the Russian Navy has done it.
In the entire Western Navy, only the "Ticandroga" class cruiser and "Burke" class destroyers with tonnage of nearly 10,000 tons have this "Tomahawk" cruise missile from sea to land. The warships of other countries do not have the ability to attack land thousands of kilometers away.
Now, the 21635 light frigate developed by Russia's Akabas Shipbuilding Group on the basis of the "Mob-M" class light frigate, the tonnage of the tonnage will be increased to about 1300-1400 tons.
21635 light frigate, the entire ship will be equipped with 2 8-mounted 16 3S14 universal vertical launch devices, and the carrying capacity of the "Care-NK" land attack cruise missile will be doubled to 16, and it has strong strategic strike capabilities.
Setting up a ship-based vertical launch device on surface ship is a major trend in the entire naval community around the world. The Russian Navy has powerful hypersonic anti-ship combat methods and thousands of kilometers of cruise missiles on small missile ships with a size of less than 1,000 tons, and is unique in the global naval community and far from comparable to the Chinese Navy 056A light frigate.
"Thug-M" class light frigate and 056A light frigate have a tonnage difference of more than 400 tons, but when the two sides compare, the gap is clearly reflected.The "Thug-M" class light frigate has caught up with the global trend of vertical launch of surface ship missiles, becoming the world's strongest light frigate for anti-ship and land attack.
In contrast, the weapon system of the 056A light frigate is basically configured, but its combat power is average. Compared with the "Mob-M" class light frigate, there is no particularly outstanding feature, such as 8 "Red Flag-10" air defense missiles, with a maximum range of 10 kilometers, does not have regional air defense capabilities, and the weapons carried on the ship do not have land attack capabilities.
Based on the 056A light frigate, we hope that scientific researchers in Chinese shipyards can set up general vertical launch devices equipped with 8-16 units to realize the vertical launch of missiles, which is conducive to the introduction of a thousand-ton small missile ship into the international arms market.
The author of this article believes that for the Navy of Third World , which has insufficient military expenditure in small and medium-sized countries, it will have extremely powerful attraction. I believe that orders to purchase 1,000-ton warships with ship-based vertical launch devices will fly towards Chinese shipyards like snowflakes.
"Thug-M" class light frigate, if there is no 8-mounted 3S14 universal vertical launch device installed on the ship, it will not have the "Zerry" hypersonic missile anti-ship strike means of thousands of kilometers, and will not have the "Cabove-NK" cruise missile land attack capabilities of thousands of kilometers.
The Russian Navy's "Mob-M" class light frigate, with the 3S14 universal vertical launch device and equipped with the "Zircon" hypersonic anti-ship missile , especially the "Care-NK" land-attack cruise missile, has demonstrated the powerful combat performance that shocks the global military in the fight against IS terrorist forces in Syria and Russia-Ukraine military conflicts, which is worthy of the thinking and reference of scientific researchers in the Chinese navy and shipyards.
This article does not deny the role of the 056A light frigate. In the operation and mid-close maritime defense within the Chinese naval system, with the huge advantages in the scale of entry, the 056A light frigate will play a very important role, which can prevent the secret infiltration of other countries' AIP submarines and even the attack nuclear submarines from other countries on my country's coast, and safeguard the security of the military port and the nuclear submarine base. The enrollment of the huge 056A light frigate will release the 054A frigate with ship-based vertical launch devices, anti-ship, air defense , anti-submarine, anti-missile and other excellent performances, the 054A frigate, the 052 series destroyer and the 055 10,000-ton destroyer, etc., the main surface ships in the service of the Chinese Navy will go forward to perform combat readiness patrols and other tasks, grind the troops deep in the ocean, and improve the ability to defend the country.
