With Lai Ching-te about to take office and the Taiwan authorities announcing a new round of military exercises around the Taiwan Strait, the cross-strait situation has become tense again.
Last week, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) flew several sorties in one day to cross the so-called "center line of the strait" and approach the island within a few dozen kilometers, causing a high degree of nervousness in Taiwan's defense departments.
On 22 April, the Taiwan media broke the news that a confrontation between a PLA warship and a warship in the Taiwan region had occurred in the waters around the Penghu Islands, and that some civilian radio enthusiasts had even accidentally recorded a warning from a mainland PLA warship warning a Taiwan warship!
In the comparison of the strength of warships on both sides of the strait, the tonnage of the PLA is comprehensively superior!
In fact, the news that broke the news in the media this time was based on the recording overheard by this radio enthusiast in the Taiwan region, because at that time, the PLA warship was openly shouting to the warship in the Taiwan region through a public channel, and as long as it was nearby, the radio could basically receive the signal!
According to the recording recorded by this netizen, it can be heard that the two sides of the confrontation on the Penghu Islands are the 157 ship of the People's Liberation Army and the 1109 ship of the Taiwan Defense Department, and the content of the PLA officer's shout is: 1109 ship of Taiwan, China, here is 157 ship, please pay attention to your location!
The 157th ship of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is the 25th ship launched in the Lishui in the Chinese 052D destroyer, and the 1109th ship of the Taiwan Defense Department is the Zhang Qian frigate of the department, which is also the penultimate ship of this class of frigates in Taiwan.
It is worth mentioning that some military experts have compared the launching batches of the two ships, which are also the ships that were launched late in the troops on both sides of the strait, and are also the main warships of the surface and sea forces, but our Lishui was launched more than 20 years later than Taiwan's Zhang Qian, that is to say, when the Lishui was launched into service, Zhang Qian was actually almost of retirement age!
And the two warships are the backbone of the military forces on both sides of the strait, the PLA has several batches of a total of 25 052D, although the PLA has stopped the construction of this type of ship in the past two years, but this year the PLA has restarted the construction of 052D, and then there is a large number of destroyers of this type in service with the Chinese Navy!
And Taiwan now has a total of 10 so-called Chenggong-class frigates, Taiwan has not increased large sea ships for more than 20 years, and many of today's Chenggong-class destroyers have such and such problems because of disrepair, and I don't know how many of these ten really have combat effectiveness if they are really pulled out!
In addition, comparing the number and age of 052D with the Chenggong-class is completely disrespectful to 052D, because the so-called Chenggong-class cruisers in Taiwan are actually built according to the tonnage and firepower of Chinese frigates, and they are not even comparable to China's Type 054A frigates in terms of firepower.
Comparison of the firepower of the two ships, the success level is not for the mainland!
Of course, the two ships facing off now are 052D and Taiwan's Chenggong-class frigates, just from the tonnage point of view, you know the gap between the two warships, Lishui is China's latest launch of the latest type 052DL destroyer, its full load displacement reached about 7500 tons.
As a frigate, Zhang Qian's displacement can only be regarded as average, with a full load displacement of only about 4,000 tons, so from the outside, these two warships are not of the same order of magnitude at all.
The Chinese 052DL destroyer is equipped with 130 mm heavy naval guns, and there is also a 1130 close defense gun, and the warship also has a set of 24 Red Flag missile air defense systems, and there are 64 vertical units capable of loading a variety of air defense against surface-to-ship attacks!
The Zhang Qian-class destroyers in Taiwan, in addition to the aging of the warships and the backward equipment, cannot be compared with the 052D in terms of firepower. The main gun of the Taiwan's Chenggong-class frigate is a 76 mm naval gun, and the close defense gun is Taiwan's magic reform of the phalanx close defense system.
In terms of air defense, the warship actually retained a 40mm antiaircraft gun, and in addition to this, the warship also had the US Standard 1 anti-aircraft missile, as well as two Hsiungfeng-2 missiles and two Hsiungfeng-3 anti-ship missiles that were later installed by Taiwan's defense department.
It is worth mentioning that Taiwan's self-developed Hsiungfeng-3 anti-ship missile has a range of only about 150 to 200 kilometers for ordinary missiles, and even missiles with enhanced range can only reach a maximum of 400 kilometers, and it is simply impossible to effectively break through the defense circle of PLA aircraft carriers or even destroyers.
Moreover, although the speed of this missile can reach Mach 3 at a maximum speed, and Taiwan shamelessly calls it a supersonic anti-ship missile, we all know that the missile cannot reach a speed of more than Mach 5 when penetrating the defense, and there is no difficulty at all in intercepting the air defense missile!
In the face of the PLA's three-layer three-dimensional air defense network interception in the near, medium and long distances, Taiwan's Hsiungfeng-3 anti-ship missiles are simply unable to cause any damage to our destroyers!
If the two warships really misfire in the Penghu Islands, I believe that after the war, the Chenggong-class frigates will be instantly beaten into a sieve by the powerful firepower of 052D!
Moreover, according to such an old ship with such combat effectiveness as the Chenggong class in the Taiwan region, we will not want it for the mainland PLA in vain, and we have not seen that the Type 054A, which is stronger in combat effectiveness than the Chenggong class, has been thrown to the Navy by the PLA in disgust?