Recently, the Russian Navy decided to modernize a modern-class destroyer "Admiral Ushakov" to extend the service life of the warship. The ship had serious technical problems during its duty in 2018. The Russian military initially considered decommissioning it, but it seemed that it was still reluctant to give up this 8,000-ton platform. The modern-class destroyer
, as the backbone of the large and medium-sized surface ships of the Soviet Navy in the late Cold War period, was also the "favorite of heaven" of the Chinese Navy. In the late 1990s, China imported two ships of this type from Russia, with a total of 4 ships deployed in the East China Sea Fleet, which was under the greatest military pressure at that time.
But now, with the batch service of the 054 series frigates and the 052 series destroyers, modern-class destroyers have become less and less able to keep up with the development speed of the People’s Navy, showing their old attitude. Although we have made a series of modifications to it, the performance improvement is still quite limited, and the status of these four warships in the Chinese Navy is declining. In the Russian Navy, 13 modern-class ships have been decommissioned, with only three in active service.
Back then, many articles believed that China introduced the modern-class destroyer because of its 3M80 supersonic anti-ship missile, which is the seemingly outstanding "anti-aircraft carrier" capability. In fact, this is a complete misunderstanding. The maximum range of the 3M80 missile is only 120 kilometers, and the modification is only about 240 kilometers, which is much smaller than the strike radius of the US aircraft carrier aircraft. In actual combat, the Hyundai-class destroyer may be attacked by multiple waves of carrier-based aircraft before it reaches the range of the 3M80 missile. Z1z
You must know that the Soviet Navy’s main anti-aircraft missile during the Cold War generally required a range of more than 500 kilometers and a strike radius similar to that of the US carrier aircraft, so that the missile can be launched relatively safely. Therefore, what the Chinese navy fancy was not the 3M80 missile, but the modern-level mid-range air defense capability. The range of the 9M38 air defense missile used by the modern-class destroyer
is not far, about 35-40 kilometers, but it is already much stronger than the Hongqi-61 and Haihongqi-7 air defense missiles of the Chinese Navy at that time. The latter two can only perform terminal air defense. Mission, the range is about 10 kilometers. It was not until the emergence of the 051C, 054A, and 052C/D ships that the Hyundai-class domestic air defense superiority was surpassed and replaced.
is the so-called "this time, then another time". The modern-class missiles and radar systems of that year were much taller than domestic warships of the same period. But now, the 052C/D "Chinese Aegis" destroyer has achieved a comprehensive surpassing of the former in performance, and the modern class is even weaker than the 054A frigate, which is half its size. As for the 055-type 10,000-ton destroyer, it is "all-round rolling" modern class. In recent years, modern-level figures have rarely appeared in naval exercises. The large surface combat platform that was highly regarded at that time is really out of date.
Looking at the Russian Navy, the situation is the opposite. Although the number of modern-class destroyers is decreasing, their status has risen instead of decreasing. Despite the lack of conditions to supplement spare parts and upgrades for a long time, the performance of this type of ship has begun to lag behind, even inferior to Russia's newly built 4500-ton frigate. But for the navies of major powers, the lack of large-tonnage surface ships is extremely sad. In the case that Russia is temporarily unable to build large ships, it has to maintain some old-fashioned large-tonnage warships as much as possible to show that it "has not lost its ocean-going combat capability." Compared with the modern class, which has already retreated to the second line in the Chinese navy, the same type of ship in the Russian navy has to stand up for many years...
