It allows us to identify both air and sea threats far beyond visual range,’ crew member on the destroyer Lhasa tells state ...

Introduced into service in 2017, the LRASM is intended to replace the Harpoon missile.It offers enhanced capabilities and a ...

China launched its first domestically-built Type 055 guided-missile stealth destroyer in July 2017, and since then, has added three more Type 055s to its fleet, with the last two launched in July ...

The Type 055 is only overshadowed by South Korea’s new Sejong the Great-class destroyers, which have 128 multirole VLS cells, and Russian and American cruisers.

China is touting its Type 055 destroyer as a “role model” following its performance in several military exercises. The People Liberation Army’s first powerful warship was tasked with ...

A simulated battle by the team, set in the western Pacific, just a few hundred kilometres east of Taiwan, saw a Type 055 destroyer confront an advancing US naval fleet. China's Type 055 is one of ...

The blue-water role of China’s newest variety of naval destroyer was on show last week when Type 055 destroyer Zunyi led a small flotilla to conduct live-fire drills in international waters off ...

The Type 055 large destroyer Zunyi of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy fires its close-in weapon system during a combat exercise in the Pacific Ocean in February 2025. Photo ...

Two Type 055 large destroyers, the Nanchang and the Lhasa, are moored at a naval port in 2021. File photo: Courtesy of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy Two of China's newly commissioned ...

CNS Nanchang, China's first Type 055 guided-missile destroyer, in January 2020, when it was commissioned.WANG YOU / XINHUA CNS Nanchang, China's first Type 055 guided-missile destroyer ...

The Communist Party newspaper Global Times said the mission was the first for the Type 055 destroyer Lhasa since its commissioning last year. It is accompanied by the Luyang-class Type 052D ...

Military analysts claim the move suggests that the Type 055 large destroyer has achieved full operational capability. Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force reported Monday the PLA flotilla was ...