The Type 055 large destroyer Zunyi of Navy fires its close-in weapon system during a combat exercise in the Pacific Ocean in February 2025. Photo: Screenshot from China Central Television Three Type ...

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 ...

Introduced into service in 2017, the LRASM is intended to replace the Harpoon missile.It offers enhanced capabilities and a range of over 560 miles. Type 055 destroyer "sunk" by LRASM missiles ...

The Chinese Navy deployed the Type 055 Renhai-class destroyer for three different military drills in the Yellow Sea, the contentious South China Sea, the Pacific Ocean. In a worrying development ...

Addressing misconceptions about China's latest surface combatant, the Type 055 guided-missile destroyer. China has reportedly launched its second Type 055 guided-missile destroyer in April.

A Chinese naval fleet led by the Type 055 destroyer Zunyi is nearing the completion of its unprecedented circumnavigation of Australia, which included sailing near a strategically sensitive ...

The Type 055 appears akin to the US Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, which debuted in the 1980s and carry 96 missiles each, military analyst Kyle Mizokami wrote last year in Popular Mechanics.

The first China-built aircraft carrier - the Type 001A - and the first of China's Type 055-class guided-missile destroyers set sail for sea trials over the last few days. Chinese military experts ...

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 ...