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Naval Weaponry Of The People's Liberation Army Navy
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is the naval branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the armed forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLAN force consists of approximately 250,000 men and over a hundred major combat vessels, organized into three fleets: the North Sea Fleet, the East Sea Fleet, and the South Sea Fleet. Most of the naval weapon systems used by the PLAN were developed prior to 1990. The naval weaponry of the PLAN is based on three tiers: artillery, torpedoes, and missiles, each geared to a specific threat range and type. History Throughout its early history from 1949 to the early 1980s, the PLAN had principally relied upon artillery and torpedoes as its main weapons. This resulted in the development of many types and calibers of anti-aircraft and anti-ship guns. Torpedoes were secondary weapons, playing an important role in PLAN's coastal defense doctrines. Many destroyers, frigates and torpedo craft all carry an array of anti-ship torpedoes to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, Rocket Force, and Strategic Support Force. It is under the leadership of the Central Military Commission (CMC) with its chairman as commander-in-chief. The PLA can trace its origins during the Republican Era to the left-wing units of the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Kuomintang (KMT) when they broke away on 1 August 1927 in an uprising against the nationalist government as the Chinese Red Army before being reintegrated into the NRA as units of New Fourth Army and Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The two NRA communist units were reconstituted into the PLA on 10 October 1947. Today, the majority of military units around the country are assigned to one of five theater commands by geographical locat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type 63 Anti-aircraft Gun
The Type 63 and Type 65 are Chinese self-propelled anti-aircraft gunType 63 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun System from Federation of American Scientists based on the china type 58(T-34-85 produced in china) medium tank chassis. Description The Type 63 is a Type 58 produced by China converted into an anti-aircraft vehicle, armed with Chinese twin 37 mm Type 61 AA guns. The related Type 65 variant was instead based on the Type 58 chassis. None of the original Type 63's survive today. The Type 65 retained the hull from the Type 58 but the turret was replaced by an open-top box turret armed with twin Type 61 37mm anti-aircraft guns. The guns ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type 730
The Type 730 is a Chinese seven-barrelled 30 mm Gatling gun/Rotary cannon CIWS. It has a PLA Navy designation H/PJ12. It is mounted in an enclosed automatic turret and directed by radar, and electro-optical tracking systems. The maximum rate of fire is 5800 rd/m, and the effective range is up to 3 km. Development The gun is designed by the 713th research institute under the name 'Project 850' and is powered by two electric motors. The radar TR47C is a derivative of the EFR-1/LR66 J-band radar (NATO code name: Rice Lamp) by Xi'an Research Institute of Navigation Technology, but it is unclear that if this derivative is developed by the same institution. The OFC (Optical Fire Control)-3/H/ZGJ-4 electro-optical fire control system is designed by the Central China Optronic (electro-optical) Research Institute. Origin The system's primary purpose is defense against anti-ship missiles, and other precision guided weapons. However, it can also be employed against fixed/ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creusot-Loire
Creusot-Loire was a French engineering conglomerate, formed from factories in Le Creusot and Châteauneuf, Loire. The Creusot-Loire subsidiary of ArcelorMittal also includes an Innovation, Research and Development centre for the group. History The group was formed in 1970 as a result of Compagnie des ateliers et forges de la Loire (owned by Marine-Firminy) and (owned by Schneider) merger. The Société des Forges et Ateliers du Creusot had absorbed the Société métallurgique d'Imphy in 1968. The enterprise developed what has become known as the Creusot-Loire Uddeholm (CLU) converter process, which was developed to minimize the need of argon, and which was first erected on an industrial scale in the 1970s at Degerfors. The group was affected by the 1970s steel crisis, and was not able to pay a dividend after 1977. In 1984 the organisation became bankrupt with debts of $633 million; the company's owner Empain-Schneider rejected state aid as the conditions included giving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type H/PJ38 130 Mm Naval Gun
The H/PJ-38 is a single barrel 130 mm naval gun that is used by the People's Liberation Army Navy. Designed in 2005 this naval gun was introduced on the Type 052D destroyer . English and Japanese literature refers to this gun as the H/PJ-38. Lu Yi, a Taiwanese military journalist, gave the official designation of this gun as H/PJ-45. Design The H/PJ-38 was designed by the Zhengzhou Mechanical-Electrical Engineering Research Institute (郑州机电工程研究所, also known as the 713th Research Institute of the 7th Academy) through reverse engineering of the Soviet AK-130 twin 130 mm naval gun. The H/PJ-38 was manufactured by Inner Mongolia 2nd Machinery Manufacturing Factory (内蒙第二机械制造厂). Chen Dingfeng (陈汀峰) was the general designer of the H/PJ-38. Dingfeng was also the general designer for the Type 79 100 mm naval gun, Type 210 100 mm naval gun, and the H/PJ26 76 mm naval gun. Initially, the Chinese navy was unsatisfied and did not let the AK-13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AK-130
The AK-130 is a Russian designed automatic dual barrel naval cannon with a caliber of , capable of firing 10-40 rounds per minute (per gun barrel). History The design of the cannon began in June 1976 in KB Arsenal. A first single-barrel cannon designated A-217 was made, followed by the twin-barrel A-218, which was chosen due to its higher rate of fire and appeal to the admiral of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic's navy S. G. Gorshkov. The Barricades factory produced the first samples. The cannon went on trial operation on the Project 956 destroyer for five years, and was adopted into service in the USSR on November 1, 1985. Description Innovations include the unitary cannon cartridge and the automatic loading system. It has a high rate of fire (up to 90 RPM), at the cost of greater weight. The autoloader removed the need of a loader and allows for continuous firing until the ammunition storage is emptied. The fire control system has sight correction devices fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AK–176
The AK-176 is a Soviet naval gun mounted in an enclosed turret, that may be used against sea, coastal, and aerial targets, including low flying anti-ship missiles. The system is designed to arm small displacement ships and comprises the Gun Mount with a MR-123-02/76 Fire Control Radar System. It has high survivability owing to autonomous use of the gun mount controlled from the optical sight in the absence of control from the radar system, as well as a capability for fire even if power supply is lost. Design The gun is fed by 152 ready to fire rounds and has selectable rates of fire of 30, 60 and 120 rounds per minute. The 120 r.p.m. rate is achieved by firing a burst of 75, but afterwards the gun has to cool off for 30 minutes. The AK-176 is effective against missiles, being able to shoot down AT-2 Swatter (simulating a Harpoon anti-ship missile), taking an average of 25 rounds per kill. In the late 1980s an upgraded version the AK-176M, with a new fire control system MR-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type 210 100 Mm Naval Gun
The Type 210 automatic single 100 mm naval gun is the Chinese modification of the Compact model of the French 100 mm naval gun. There are at least two variants, with both sharing similar characteristics with the French weapon. Type 210 The Type 210 was developed to make the French gun suitable for Chinese deployment. The French gun was incompatible with Soviet and Chinese electronics; it was easier to make the gun compatible with these electronics, and Western electronics, than to alter the electronic suites already aboard warships. Furthermore, the Chinese added the capability to fire laser- and infrared-guided shells; this required significant changes to the magazine. The weapon's maximum rate of fire for a single type of unguided round was 90 rounds per minute. The rate of fire was reduced when switching between different types of ammunition. Type H/PJ87 The Type H/PJ87 100 mm naval gun was a further development of the Type 210, but suffered from jamming. It armed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French 100 Mm Naval Gun
Modern French 100 mm naval guns are multipurpose artillery pieces, capable of a high rate of fire. Most modern French warships are or were equipped with one of its versions. History At the end of the Second World War, the French Navy was equipped with guns of numerous calibres, most of which were obsolete. In 1953, the STCAN of Paris, under engineer Tonnelé, drafted the design of a multi-purpose 100 mm gun. The gun was designed to be effective for anti-aircraft defence, anti-ship combat, and shore bombardment fire support. The first model of the family, "modèle 53", was tested at sea on the escort ''Le Brestois'' in 1958 and the escort aviso ''Victor Schoelcher'' in 1961. Description The most common version, ''modèle 68'', features a completely automatic action and control. The ammunition is stored in a magazine underneath the turret, and fed to the gun by a lift operated by a team of two. A flexible pipe allows feeding the gun under any orientation. Rounds of amm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type 79 100 Mm Naval Gun
{{unreferenced, date=April 2009 The Type 79 Twin 100 mm gun is the first indigenously developed large caliber Chinese naval gun. A decision was made in 1970 to replace the Soviet 100/56 Bu-34 single 100 mm semi-enclosed gun mount. By June 1973, the first batch was completed and two were installed onboard frigates for test and evaluation. Two more upgrades were eventually developed. Type 79 The first of the family, this gun was fully automatic and controlled by Type 343 radar. However, being the first fully automatic gun and the first indigenously developed gun at the same time, the Chinese was not confident enough on the design, and thus incorporated manual backup systems. This proved to be baseless because later operation proved that the reliability of the automated system was just as good as the simpler manual system. Type 79A Based on the successful performance of the automated system, the manual backup system was eliminated in this upgrade. As a result, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AK-230
The AK-230 is a Soviet fully automatic naval twin 30 mm gun. Its primary function is anti-aircraft. It is mounted in an enclosed automatic turret and directed by radar. AK-230 is widely used, mounted on big warships as well as small craft. About 1450 guns were produced in the USSR, and about 300 were produced in China as the Type 69. It was succeeded by the more powerful AK-630 from the mid-to-late 1970s. Development and service Development of the weapon began during the 1950s, with the first trial weapon fitted to the ''Osa'' class of fast attack missile boats and ''Shershen'' class torpedo boats. The weapon was officially accepted into service in 1969. Its service life was relatively short, due to the fielding of the AK-630 system in the mid-1970s, which uses the same mountings and can be controlled by the same fire control systems. While its 30×210 mm round was much more powerful than the AK-630's 30×165 mm one, having the muzzle velocity of 1050 m/s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
