The ships of the Chinese Navy, in the development stage, have imported Russian Hyundai-class destroyers, and four were imported at that time, and they were also called the Four King Kongs by netizens.
With the development of science and technology, Russian ships also have a tendency to gradually fall behind, the current situation in the Chinese Navy is very embarrassing, if it is not improved, there is no way to use it in the future, but the change may have limited room for upgrading, and it will cause a wasteful situation.
Now the dilemma is in front of us, and it also makes many military fans and netizens feel that it is difficult to choose, but one thing can be seen that the research and development level of the mainland navy has increased dramatically, and there is no need to rely on foreign equipment and technology.
The mainland imported Hyundai-class destroyers entirely because it was in defense needs at that time, and proceeding from reality, it spent $2.4 billion to import four Hyundai-class destroyers from Russia, which added a strong defensive strength to the East China Sea Fleet and also increased the warship fleet for the mainland's maritime power.
However, with the passage of time, more than 20 years have passed now, and the mainland has not only developed and built a variety of weapons in terms of naval equipment, but also broken through the technical bottleneck in terms of destroyers, and designed and built 0.55 million tons of large drives, 052 series destroyers, and many types of warships.
As the mainland's navy has gradually become stronger, it has grown from an outdated and backward equipment to the largest navy in Asia, a world-leading navy, with not only a self-developed 10,000-ton drive, but also a very powerful aircraft carrier and a new type of combat ship, which are all achievements brought about by the rapid development of the mainland's navy, and are also a manifestation of the improvement of the mainland's maritime defense and countermeasure capabilities.
At present, the modern class destroyers, compared with the modern warships on the mainland, have many limitations, and if they continue to be used, they need to be upgraded and transformed, otherwise it will be difficult to keep up with the needs of the current army's defense deployment.
Some netizens said, why not just wait for the four destroyers to be decommissioned, the mainland's current ship-building capacity is very prominent, and it also has its own plan to build new ships, in fact, even if you don't transform these four modern classes, it doesn't have much impact, but the navy formed a defensive iron fist with the modern class 20 years ago, and that time also played a certain role in promoting the development of the navy's equipment.
At the beginning, Russia's modern-class destroyers, when they were just deployed in the mainland navy, were still warships built with advanced technology and important ships that undertook the main tasks of the navy, and later the domestically produced naval ships were delivered to the navy like dumplings, and these modern-class ships became second-rate ships, no longer the most advanced and important ships in the front row, but the navy will not forget that the ship detachment that has made contributions to the security and defense of the mainland's maritime frontier also has a high degree of recognition for the modern-class ships.
In the past, the maritime contingent formed by these destroyers was an important combat force for maritime deployment in order to defend against the enemy's aircraft carriers, but now that time has changed, the mainland has its own real aircraft carrier fleet, and its maritime reconnaissance, defense, and countermeasure capabilities are no longer comparable to those of the past.
The destroyer built by domestic independent technology can also meet and exceed the comprehensive performance of the modern class, so many netizens said that if the modern-class destroyer can be transformed into the factory, it may be rejuvenated for the Russian-made destroyer that has served on the mainland for many years.
However, Russian-made ships, internal structures and structures, etc., have limitations, and also have certain technical limitations, after all, the construction time has been relatively long, according to the current technology and equipment improvement, the space for upgrading is still limited, and the cost is also a real problem.
In front of the navy, there is a realistic and embarrassing problem, that is, whether to renovate and upgrade the Hyundai-class destroyers?
This destroyer is a Soviet-made design concept, and it was also developed and built during the Soviet period, when 19 were produced during the Soviet period, and among the 4 ships purchased by the mainland, exactly 2 were built during the Soviet period, and 2 were destroyers produced and delivered during the Russian period.
Due to design and production reasons, there were many dissatisfaction points when negotiating with the Russian side at that time, but because the processing capacity and advanced materials at that time had been affected by the collapse of the Soviet Union, it can be said that the quality at that time did not meet the expectations of the mainland.
The military industry of the Soviet Union and Russia was relatively rough in terms of details, and after the mainland received it, it was also transformed and upgraded, and it took more than three years to upgrade the installation of radars, missiles, electronic equipment, etc., and the changes in weapons were not too big.
With the increase of service life, there are rust spots and other problems in the hull of modern ships, which are related to the safety of warships, which arouse attention and need to be dealt with with by high technology, otherwise there will be potential safety hazards.
It is precisely because the mainland navy is exquisitely crafted, extremely rigorous, and responsible, and able to discover and prevent problems from getting worse, that it will consider whether it is necessary to continue the transformation, and no matter how the navy decides in the end where the modern class goes, it is the most reasonable arrangement made after comprehensive consideration of the warships.