China launches fifth Type 055 destroyer for PLANAndrew Tate, London - Jane's Defence Weekly
23 September 2019
The fifth Type 055 (Renhai-class) destroyer on order for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has been launched at the Jiangnan Changxingdao shipyard near Shanghai.
Work is now continuing in the fitting-out basin, as shown in commercial satellite imagery captured on 18 September.
The launch was not covered by official Chinese media but the satellite imagery shows that it occurred between 7 and 18 September, with some Chinese social media sites claiming that it took place on 12 September.
