The mainland's naval equipment is only the result of more than 30 years of rapid accumulation, and before that, it had imported some weapons to build up a certain defensive force. The mainland has also imported Russian destroyers, although it was relieved of the urgent need at that time, but now it has made these Russian-made warships show an extremely embarrassing position in the mainland's advanced warship array, and some people even suggested, why not take them to give favors?
The mainland has imported Russian modern-class destroyers, as of now, the warships imported at that time, there are still a few in service, in the period when the mainland's naval equipment can not be independently developed and built, these Russian-made warships, helped the mainland's coastal defense to reduce the pressure, but also formed a certain degree of countermeasures, including the four modern-class destroyers that are still often mentioned, at that time, it can be said that it cost a huge amount of money to procure, 2.4 billion US dollars, the purchase of modern-class warships, now it has become extremely embarrassing, why?
The Hyundai-class destroyer is a Russian-made warship, and it is also a product of the 20th century, but it has certain design and power limitations, and the strike range of the anti-aircraft defense missile 9M38 is only 25 kilometers.
However, the defense capability is only more than 20 kilometers, and in the 90s of the 20th century, the mainland only had Type 051 destroyers at that time, and the frigate Type 053H, and the comprehensive comparative strength was still inferior to that of Russian destroyers.
Especially at that time, the naval air defense capability of warships was all installed with twin 25 mm caliber naval guns, or 37 mm anti-aircraft guns, and the range of the Hongqi 61 missiles at that time was only 12 kilometers.
In particular, at that time, the mainland's navy continued to increase its combat readiness deployment, and in the face of the huge pressure on coastal defense, it was necessary to deploy more advanced combat power as soon as possible, at least step by step to achieve a more powerful combat force.
As a result, the modern-class destroyers, which have a relatively advanced anti-ship missile launch system, are also very prominent in the strike capability of air defense missiles, and have a very strong ability to penetrate defenses, have entered the mainland's field of vision.
Russia's Hyundai-class destroyers at that time agreed to be exported to the mainland, with the obvious purpose of earning foreign exchange and cooperation.
Even now, there is a puzzling view that the Russian-made warships that the mainland spent huge sums of money to purchase at that time were not advanced, but compared with the current warships, the mainland's shipbuilding capacity has developed rapidly in the past 30 years, and the realization of a trend of rapid progress has become the envy of many countries.
At that time, the introduction of modern-class warships was of positive significance for the mainland navy to conduct practical training, provide a training platform, and increase military training. At the same time, it has played a great role in providing great support and experience accumulation for the mainland to get in touch with a broader range of ideas for designing warships, understanding different ship structures, and continuing to promote its own independent research and development.
The Continental Army Industrial Research Team, learning from and R&D, absorbing the strengths of others, also has more effective reference significance for quickly solving the technical problems faced by the mainland in its own R&D.
For example, the radar reconnaissance system on the Hyundai-class destroyers at that time was somewhat ahead of the mainland's technology, and the Russian-made radar MR750 top-plate radar had the ability to search and pursue multiple targets, and it also provided anti-jamming capabilities for warships, all of which performed well.
These technologies, which the mainland was still trying to conquer at that time, provided better ideas and reference directions for the mainland's military research and development. Later, the mainland created the 381 radar and 382 radar built with domestic technology.
It has filled the gap in the equipment of the mainland navy, promoted the improvement of radar technology on the mainland, and overcome important problems. These two radars are still important reconnaissance equipment of the Navy today, and the 366 radar has been further upgraded, installed on many types of destroyers such as 054A and 052D.
It is of great value to look at the problem from the perspective of long-term development, and the mainland's choice at that time was very important and correct.
Now the navy is very well-equipped, a variety of warship weapons emerge in endlessly, if compared with the mainland's warships, now these four modern-class destroyers, really old and limited functions, and even some netizens even said that since these warships are relatively backward, why don't they be sold as second-hand warships to countries friendly with the mainland, and give personal favors?
The role played by the Hyundai class in the past cannot be denied, and although these four warships are now embarrassing in terms of strength comparison, this does not prevent them from still being able to play a certain role in duty.
And because with the strong development of the Chinese Navy, these warships are historical witnesses of a certain significance, no matter how advanced the warships of the Chinese Navy will be in the future, these service warships that have been in the same boat with the Navy will always be a part of promoting the strength of the Navy.