Video: How High is the Combat Accuracy and Flexibility of the "Ten Thousand Ton Destroyer"? Understand Instantly After Watching This Set of Footage

In March 2021, our country's first Type 055 destroyer, the Nanchang, welcomed its first air defense and anti-missile mission with a real combat background, one year after its commissioning.

Naval Officer Qiao Peng from the Nanchang: The difficulty of the mission was equivalent to a world-class air defense challenge at that time. Because we had never experienced live-fire shooting, the pressure on the entire team and the whole ship was particularly high.

At that time, the average age of the missile squad soldiers was only 23, and they were facing such a high-difficulty challenge for their first live-fire mission. Whether they could successfully pass the test was a source of anxiety for everyone.

More than a month later, the assessment arrived as scheduled, and the battle alarm echoed throughout the Nanchang. Everything was ready, and everyone was eager to go.

With a command, the missiles shot towards the target like swords piercing through the clouds, hitting five out of five, demonstrating the combat capability of the "10,000-ton destroyer" to the world.

Naval Officer Qiao Peng from the Nanchang: At that moment, everyone in our squad jumped up from their combat seats, cheering in various ways. The missile serves as the first line of defense for our ship, and after this live-fire exercise, we indeed felt much more confident when going out to sea in the future.

The "10,000-ton destroyer" can counter saturation attacks.

With the rapid development of military technology, modern saturation attacks have evolved into precise saturation attacks, integrating new equipment such as hypersonic weapons, stealth missiles, and drone swarms, creating a more three-dimensional strike dimension and significantly improving accuracy. This poses a more severe test for the battlefield survival capability of large surface combatants.

Military commentator Wei Dongxu: The Type 055 destroyer, being a large vessel of 10,000 tons, has a very strong capability to withstand saturation attacks.

Firstly, it has "fire-eye golden eyes," which can use phased array radar at a great distance to identify incoming enemy firepower and provide early warning. It can not only guide the ship's firepower for precise interception but also direct other maritime combat platforms, constructing a multi-layered air defense and anti-missile firepower network, utilizing its saturation response capability to counter the enemy's saturation attack capability.

The greatest advantage of the Type 055 is its universal vertical launch system, which allows for flexible selection of munitions and types based on mission requirements and the assessed enemy firepower strike patterns.

In terms of defensive firepower, it not only has a large quantity but also can achieve precise and sustained interception.

(Source: China Central Television's Defense Military Channel program "Forge the Sword")