Pictures: Two PLAN Type 052D Destroyers in Live Fire Exercise
 
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) Type 052D Destroyers (NATO reporting name Luyang III class) Kunming and the Hefei sailed to high sea and conducted live-ammunition training recently.
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) Type 052D Destroyers (NATO reporting name Luyang III class) Kunming and the Hefei sailed to high sea and conducted live-ammunition training recently.
 
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Pictures: Two PLAN Type 052D Destroyers in Live Fire Exercise
 
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) Type 052D Destroyers (NATO reporting name Luyang III class) Kunming and the Hefei sailed to high sea and conducted live-ammunition training recently.
     
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) Type 052D Destroyers (NATO reporting name Luyang III class) Kunming and the Hefei sailed to high sea and conducted live-ammunition training recently.
PLAN Type 052D Destroyer firing with the H/PJ-38 130mm main gun
     
In the four-day encounter-battle exercise, all the armament systems were used. The Kunming, with hull number 172, is Chinese PLA Navy's first 052D type of guided missile destroyer, a third generation destroyer equipped with the active phased array radar and vertical launching system.
     
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) Type 052D Destroyers (NATO reporting name Luyang III class) Kunming and the Hefei sailed to high sea and conducted live-ammunition training recently.
PLAN Type 052D Destroyer firing with the H/PJ-12 30mm CIWS
     
The Type 052D Kunming class (Nato designation: Luyang III) is the latest generation of guided-missile destroyer (DDG) of the Chinese Navy. It is based on its predecessor, the Type 052C DDG and likely shares the same hull. However the Type 052D incorporates many improvements in terms of design as well as sensors and weapons fit. This new class of vessel is considered as the Chinese equivalent to the American AEGIS destroyers.

Link to Type 052D Kunming Class Destroyer technical datasheet
     
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) Type 052D Destroyers (NATO reporting name Luyang III class) Kunming and the Hefei sailed to high sea and conducted live-ammunition training recently.
Type 052D Destroyer Kunming (172), first ship of the class, underway