Type 053H2 Jianghu-III class Missile Frigate PLAN Navy China

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Type 053H2 Jianghu III class Frigate

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Ships:

Unit / Name	Name (Han)	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	STATUS
FF 535 PLANS Huangshi	黄石	Hudong	December 28, 1985	December 14, 1986	decommissioned April 27, 2013
FF 536 PLANS Wuhu	芜湖	Hudong	August 9, 1986	December 29, 1987	decommissioned April 27, 2013
FF 537 PLANS Cangzhou	沧州	Hudong	October 30, 1989	November 17, 1990	decommissioned August 2019

FF 535 PLANS Huangshi: sold to Bangladesh > renamed F-15 BNS Abu Bakar
FF 536 PLANS Wuhu: sold to Bangladesh > renamed F-17 BNS Ali Haider
FF 537 > originally named PLANS Zhousan > renamed Cangzhou in July 2006

Specifications:

Builders:
Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, Shanghai, China

Displacement: 1720 tons (standard) / 1960 tons (full load)
Length: 103 meters (337 feet 11 inches)
Beam: 11.3 meters (37 ft)
Draft: 3.2 meters (10 ft 6 in)
Speed: 26 knots (48 km/h)
Range: 4000 NMI (7400 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement: 200

Propulsion:
(Diesel)
2 x 12E390VA diesel engines (2 x 8000 hp)
2 shafts / 2 propellers

Armament:

2x4 box launchers for YJ-8 / YJ-82 anti-ship missiles (SSM)

2 x Type 79A 100mm twin guns

4 x H/PJ-76 37mm twin AA guns

2 x Type 81 5-tube ASW rocket launchers

4 x Type 64 (BMB-24) depth-charge projectors

2 x depth-charge racks

Aviation:
none

Systems:
Type 354 Radar (Eye Shield) 2D air/surface search, I-band
Type 517H-1 (Knife Rest) 2D long-range air search, A-band
Type 352 Radar (Square Tie) surface search fire-control, I-band
Type 343 (Wasp Head) fire control radar, G/H-band
2 x Type 341 fire control radar for dual 37 mm AA gun
2 x Racal RM-1290 navigation radars, I-band
SJD-5 medium-frequency sonar
SJC-1B reconnaissance sonar
SJX-4 communications sonar
CTC-1629 combat data system (or Chinese copy ZKJ-3A)
HN-900 Data link (Chinese equivalent of Link 11A/B)
SNTI-240 SATCOM
RWD-8 (Jug Pair) intercept EW suite
Type 9230I radar warning receiver
Type 651A IFF
2 x Mk-36 SRBOC 6-tube chaff/decoy launchers

Type 053H2 (NATO reporting name: Jianghu-III)

Designed on an enlarged Type 053 hull, and displayed European influence.
Considered the first "modern" Chinese frigate with airtight cabins, central air condition, NBC protection, and integrated combat system (British CTC-1629/Chinese ZKJ-3A). The sonar for Jianghu-III is EH-5, a development of earlier SJD-5 used on Jianghu-II, with integrated circuits replacing transistors.
Armed with two four-box missile launchers, carrying YJ-8 or YJ-82 surface-to-surface missiles (SSM), and four Type 79A 100mm guns in two two-gun turrets. Three were in service with the East Sea Fleet in 1997.

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Type 053H2 Jianghu III class Frigate in Royal Thai Navy service (FFG-456 HTMS Bangpakong)

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Type 053H2 Jianghu III class Frigate in Bangladesh Navy service (F-15 BNS Abu Bakr)

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