052D will eventually be downgraded to a frigate?

052D will eventually be downgraded to a frigate?

052D is a standard Aegis destroyer, which will eventually be reduced to a frigate. Are you kidding? Actually, I'm not kidding. In the future equipment sequence, the 052D series will obviously transfer to the frigate system.

What is the reason for saying this? It is obvious that the tonnage of major surface ships in big countries is getting bigger and bigger. For example, the constellation frigate designed and built by the foreign superpower navy has a full tonnage of more than 7000 tons.

Although the launch of its first ship is unknown, PPT obviously exists. You should know that the exhibition board 052DE of the 052 D series export model is actually a 6000-ton introduction of this Aegis!

Of course, normal displacement is a special indicator for families with long ears. If converted into the international standard full platoon, it is only between 7200 tons and 7500 tons. The basic model of 052D series without special lengthening and widening is really more than 7,000 tons. This is equivalent to the tonnage of constellation level.

Maybe even a few hundred tons less than the constellation level. In fact, there is no need to take out the constellation level of the superpower alone. Even if 054B or the future 057 series is still under construction, its normal displacement will obviously reach 6000 tons, so it can be expected to be more than 7000 tons.

In this way, simply comparing the tonnage, then the non-extended version of 052D is indeed at the same level as the new generation of big country frigates. It is said that 052D will eventually be downgraded to a frigate, also because of its increasing production. More than 40 ships will go offline immediately, and it is a high probability event to finally go offline to 90 or even 100 ships in the next10 year.

A surface ship with such a huge output will surely become a daily "handyman". In other words, the usual patrol duty tasks will be dispatched, instead of being qualified to accompany the super aircraft carrier every time. When wearing a "yellow vest" guards! You know, all the imperial guards in ancient times basically started with five products, and their status and salary were higher than those of the magistrate. The miscellaneous engineer is just a completely immobile soldier.

In the same way, if it is the main escort in front of a regular aircraft carrier, then the level of Aegis as such escort is at least the treatment of divisions and brigades; Once reduced to a miscellaneous ship, even with Aegis hardware, it can only be a regimental battalion.

The problem is that with the large-scale launching of the 055A series in the future, most of the earlier versions of 052D will be squeezed out of the aircraft carrier special fleet sooner or later and become the existing roles of the 054A series. That is, the 7,000-ton Aegis will eventually be the main frigate.

As for the standard frigate 054A, it goes without saying that the future destroyer detachment no longer has any position for them; Even the future frigate brigade may not be stable. Because the flagship of the frigate brigade is also likely to be the early version of 052D D.

As the gallium nitride shield becomes more and more cabbage-like, the total output is increasing, and owning a large shield is no longer the last amulet of a standard destroyer. When the total underwater scale is close to 5 million tons, the so-called total number of large shields should be more than 120. There must be dozens of ships that can only be dispatched as frigates!