This is a 1/350 scale grouping of PLAN (Chinese Navy) ships in an aircraft carrier strike group.

The Chinese have been building up and modernizing their navy over the last 10-12 years and have made extensive and amazing progress. They have gone from 1950s era technology to modern technologies in that time frame and now have two STOBAR carriers and are building even more capable CATOBAR carriers which will have full catapult and arrester technology and the escorts capable of defending them.

They now have AEGIS-like destroyers, the Type 052D which are similar in make up and capability to Arliegn Burke Flight IIA destroyers, and have just introduced a 12,000 ton class of destroyers, the Type 55, which are similar in scope and function to the US Ticonderoga class AEGIS cruisers.

Their frigate escorts, the Type 54A frigates, are modern, multi-use frigates with VLS anti-air capability.

They are also deploying with a nuclear attack sub, which is not nearly up to US standards, but they are also improving there with new submarines coming out too.

This group includes the following:

1 x CV-16, Liaoning, their first aircraft carrier
1 x Type 55 Large AEGIS-like large destroyer
2 x Type 52D AEGIS-like destroyers
2 x Type 054A multi-function guided missile frigates
1 x Type 092 Nuclear Attack submarine

The carrier has an air wing of J-15 Strike fighters similar to the Russian SU-33 fighters.

No one should underestimate the CHinese new carriers and technologies, are doubt that they do not intend to continue to modernize and build full sized carriers with the aircraft and escort ships to go with them. it is likely that within ten years China will have 4-5 carrier groups in the western Pacific, with numerous large destroyers (cruisers) and other AEGIS-like destroyers and newer nuclear attack submarines and frigates to escort them.

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