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Fuzhou 2000

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
杭州 [Hangzhou] (ex-Yekaterinburg, ex-Vazhnyy)	136		Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg, Russia	4.11.1988	23.5.1994	25.12.1999	in service (2019)
福州 [Fuzhou] (ex-Aleksandr Nevskiy, ex-ex-Vdumchivyy)	137		Severnaya Verf, St. Petersburg, Russia	22.2.1989	16.4.1999	25.12.2000	in service (2019)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	6600
Displacement full, t	8440
Length, m	145.0 wl 156.5 oa
Breadth, m	17.2
Draught, m	6.25 hull 8.25 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 GTZA-674 geared steam turbines, 4 KVG-3 boilers
Power, h. p.	100000
Max speed, kts	32.7
Fuel, t	oil 1740
Endurance, nm(kts)	4900(18)
Armament	2 x 4 Moskit-E SSM (8 P-100 (3M80E)), 2 x 1 M-22 Shtil' SAM (48 9M38M1E), 2 x 2 - 130/70 AK-130, 4 x 6 - 30/54 AK-630M, 2 x 2 - 533 TT (4), 2 x 6 RBU-1000 Smerch-3 ASWRL, 2 x 7 - 55 MRG-1 Ogonyok grenade launchers, 22 mines, 1 helicopter (Ka-28)
Electronic equipment	MR-760MA Fregat-M2EM, Mineral-E, 2x 3R91E, MR-184E Lev-218, 2x MR-123-02 Vympel-A, MR-212/201-1 Vaygach-U, MR-212/201-3 Vaygach-U radars, MGK-335MSE Platina-MSE, SSN-137, 2x MG-7 Braslet sonars, 2x Spektr-F laser detectors, E/O sensor (NATO Codename 'Squeeze Box), MP-401E Start, MP-407E Start-2 ECM suites, 8x PK-10 Smelyy, 2x PK-2M decoy RLs, Sapfir-U CCS
Complement	343

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Project history

Russian project 956E. A letter of intent to order the first pair was signed in 1997; the final contract for $667 million for the pair was signed next year. Hangzhou was handed over to Chinese control 24.2.1999; sea trials began in July and she arrived in China on 15.2.2000. Fuzhou conducted sea trials from June to August 2000 in the Baltic and was handed over on 25.11.2000. These are the incomplete 18th and 19th units of the class initially ordered for the Russian Navy. Although one had been launched, work on both had been suspended; the first was 65% complete when purchased and the other 35%. The ships are primarily intended for surface warfare tasks, including antiship, shore-bombardment, and AA defense; the minimal ASW capability is primarily for self-defense. Although this is by no means a state-of-the-art design (the ships were designed in the mid-1960s), they are vastly superior to anything else in Chinese service.

Modernizations

2019, Hangzhou: - 2 x 4 Moskit-E SSM, 2 x 1 M-22 Shtil' SAM, 4 x 6 - 30/54, MGK-335MSE Platina-MSE sonar; + 2 x 4 YJ-12A SSM (8 YJ-12A), 2 x 24 YJ-18 SSM / HQ-16 SAM (48 YJ-18 / HQ-16), 2 x 10 HQ-10 SAM (20 HQ-10), 2 x 11 - 30/80 type 1130, SJD-18 sonar

Naval service

No significant events.

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