Type 051 Destroyer - Type 051DT (mid-life Upgrade) Specs

Type 051DT (mid-life Upgrade) Specs

For comparison, please see this pic of Luda prior to modernization, and this pic of Luda with modernization.

• Displacement 3,250 tons (empty), 3,670 tons (loaded)
• Length 433.1 ft (132.0 m) / 132 meters
• Beam 42 ft (13 m) / 12.8 meters
• Draft 15.3 ft (4.7 m)
• Speed ~30+ kts
• Endurance 2,970 nautical miles (5,500 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
• Crew 280 (45 officers)
• Propulsion 2 boilers 2 turbines 72,000 hp(m) (53 MW) 2 shafts
• C3I System: combat data systems of ZKJ series (ZKJ = Zidong Kongzhi Jiqi: automatic control machines)
  • ZKJ-1 for Luda I
  • ZKJ-4 for Luda II
  • Thomson-CSF TAVITAC for Luda III (051G1/G2)
  • ZKJ-4A-3 for Luda mid-life upgrade (051DT)
  • Data link: HN-900 (Chinese equivalent of Link 11A/B, to be upgraded)
• Radar/Sonar
  • Type 517A Knife Rest, or Cross Slot 3-D long-range air search, A-band
  • Type 515 Bean Sticks or Pea Sticks air search radar, E/F-band
  • Rice Screen 3-D early warning lon-range radar, G-band
  • Square Tie air/surface-search radar, I-band
  • TSR 3004 (DRBV-15 Sea Tiger) or Eye-Shield air/surface search radar (E-band)
  • Type 343G fire-control radar (for 100 mm gun)
  • Type 347 fire-control radar (for automatic 37 mm guns)
  • Racal RM-1290 navigation radar (J-band)
  • High pole IFF
  • Pegas 2M & Tamir 2 medium-frequency hull-mounted sonar
• Armament
  • 16 x YJ-83 (C-803) anti-ship missiles in 4 x quad launcher boxes
  • 1 x 8-cell HQ-7 Surface-to-air missile launcher + 16 spare missiles
  • 2 x twin 100 mm guns
  • 4 x Type 76A dual-37 mm automatic AA guns
  • 2 x Type 75 (FQF-2500) 12 barrel 240 mm ASW rocket launchers (120 rockets)
  • 2 x triple 324 mm Yu-7 torpedo launchers
  • 4 x DC projectors + 4 DC racks
  • 2 x Chaff/decoy rocket launchers