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| Type 054A Frigate (File Photo) |
A report published by a Russian military news website on March 1 suggests that China's most advanced frigate, the Type 054 multirole warship, along with its variants were developed with the help of Russian experts.
There are more Type 054 frigates in service with the PLA Navy than any other warship. At the start of 2014, the PLA Navy had 15 of the frigates in service and five were being built at Guangzhou's Whampoa Shipyard and the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai, which differ from their predecessors in their missile systems and electrical interference weapons.
The frigate was developed quite quickly, as its initial design process began in 2009 and it went into production just three years later, taking two to three years less than any other warship China has developed. One Chinese expert said that this was due to concern over territorial disputes concerning islands in the East and South China Sea, although the Russia website suggested it may have been due to help from Russia.
Read the full story at Want China Times